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October 2005 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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October 2005

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in October 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 October 2005How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  2. 2nd October 2005Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  3. 3rd October 2005Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  4. 4th October 2005Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  5. 5th October 2005State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  6. 6th October 2005A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  7. 7th October 2005Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  8. 8th October 2005Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  9. 9th October 2005What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  10. 10th October 2005What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  11. 11th October 2005Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  12. 12th October 2005What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  13. 13th October 2005What is compensatory education?
  14. 14th October 2005What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  15. 15th October 2005How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  16. 16th October 2005According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  17. 17th October 2005Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  18. 18th October 2005Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  19. 19th October 2005What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  20. 20th October 2005Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  21. 21st October 2005Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  22. 22nd October 2005What is the medical model of disability?
  23. 23rd October 2005Define intragenerational mobility.
  24. 24th October 2005State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  25. 25th October 2005What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  26. 26th October 2005What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  27. 27th October 2005What is the Pupil Premium?
  28. 28th October 2005What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  29. 29th October 2005How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  30. 30th October 2005What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  31. 31st October 2005What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?