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March 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2008

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2008

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 2008How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  2. 2nd March 2008Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  3. 3rd March 2008Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  4. 4th March 2008Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  5. 5th March 2008State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  6. 6th March 2008What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  7. 7th March 2008Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  8. 8th March 2008Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  9. 9th March 2008Define social mobility.
  10. 10th March 2008What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  11. 11th March 2008Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  12. 12th March 2008What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  13. 13th March 2008What is Sure Start?
  14. 14th March 2008What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  15. 15th March 2008How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  16. 16th March 2008According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  17. 17th March 2008Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  18. 18th March 2008Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  19. 19th March 2008What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  20. 20th March 2008A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  21. 21st March 2008Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  22. 22nd March 2008What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  23. 23rd March 2008Define intergenerational mobility.
  24. 24th March 2008State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  25. 25th March 2008What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  26. 26th March 2008What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  27. 27th March 2008What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  28. 28th March 2008What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  29. 29th March 2008How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  30. 30th March 2008What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  31. 31st March 2008What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?