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April 2005 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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April 2005

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 2005What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  2. 2nd April 2005How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  3. 3rd April 2005According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  4. 4th April 2005Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  5. 5th April 2005Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  6. 6th April 2005What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  7. 7th April 2005What is primary socialisation?
  8. 8th April 2005Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  9. 9th April 2005What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  10. 10th April 2005What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  11. 11th April 2005State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  12. 12th April 2005What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  13. 13th April 2005What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  14. 14th April 2005Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  15. 15th April 2005What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  16. 16th April 2005How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  17. 17th April 2005What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  18. 18th April 2005What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  19. 19th April 2005What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  20. 20th April 2005Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  21. 21st April 2005Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  22. 22nd April 2005Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  23. 23rd April 2005Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  24. 24th April 2005What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  25. 25th April 2005What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  26. 26th April 2005What is 'secondary deviance'?
  27. 27th April 2005Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  28. 28th April 2005What is compensatory education?
  29. 29th April 2005What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  30. 30th April 2005Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.