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November 2005 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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November 2005

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 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 November 2005What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  2. 2nd November 2005Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  3. 3rd November 2005Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  4. 4th November 2005Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  5. 5th November 2005Define globalisation.
  6. 6th November 2005Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
  7. 7th November 2005What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  8. 8th November 2005What is 'secondary deviance'?
  9. 9th November 2005Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  10. 10th November 2005Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  11. 11th November 2005Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  12. 12th November 2005Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  13. 13th November 2005What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  14. 14th November 2005Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  15. 15th November 2005What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  16. 16th November 2005What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  17. 17th November 2005What is primary socialisation?
  18. 18th November 2005Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  19. 19th November 2005Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  20. 20th November 2005Define social mobility.
  21. 21st November 2005Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  22. 22nd November 2005What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  23. 23rd November 2005What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  24. 24th November 2005What is Sure Start?
  25. 25th November 2005What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  26. 26th November 2005Define 'forced marriage'.
  27. 27th November 2005Define 'cohabitation'.
  28. 28th November 2005According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  29. 29th November 2005Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  30. 30th November 2005What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?