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March 2005 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2005, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2005

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2005

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 2005What is 'primary deviance'?
  2. 2nd March 2005How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  3. 3rd March 2005Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  4. 4th March 2005Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  5. 5th March 2005Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  6. 6th March 2005Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  7. 7th March 2005Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  8. 8th March 2005What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  9. 9th March 2005What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  10. 10th March 2005Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  11. 11th March 2005Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  12. 12th March 2005Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  13. 13th March 2005Define social mobility.
  14. 14th March 2005According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  15. 15th March 2005According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  16. 16th March 2005Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  17. 17th March 2005What is Sure Start?
  18. 18th March 2005What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  19. 19th March 2005How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  20. 20th March 2005Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  21. 21st March 2005Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  22. 22nd March 2005Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  23. 23rd March 2005State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  24. 24th March 2005Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  25. 25th March 2005Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  26. 26th March 2005What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  27. 27th March 2005Define intergenerational mobility.
  28. 28th March 2005What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  29. 29th March 2005Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  30. 30th March 2005What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  31. 31st March 2005What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?