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November 2007 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in November 2007, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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November 2007

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 2007

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 2007Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  2. 2nd November 2007Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  3. 3rd November 2007Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  4. 4th November 2007What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  5. 5th November 2007Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  6. 6th November 2007What is 'primary deviance'?
  7. 7th November 2007How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  8. 8th November 2007What is compensatory education?
  9. 9th November 2007What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  10. 10th November 2007Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  11. 11th November 2007Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  12. 12th November 2007Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  13. 13th November 2007What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  14. 14th November 2007What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  15. 15th November 2007What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  16. 16th November 2007Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  17. 17th November 2007What is the medical model of disability?
  18. 18th November 2007Define intragenerational mobility.
  19. 19th November 2007According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  20. 20th November 2007According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  21. 21st November 2007Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  22. 22nd November 2007What is the Pupil Premium?
  23. 23rd November 2007What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  24. 24th November 2007How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  25. 25th November 2007Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  26. 26th November 2007Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  27. 27th November 2007Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  28. 28th November 2007State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  29. 29th November 2007A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  30. 30th November 2007Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?