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February 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2009, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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February 2009

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 2009

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st February 2009What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  2. 2nd February 2009Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  3. 3rd February 2009What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  4. 4th February 2009What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  5. 5th February 2009What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  6. 6th February 2009Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  7. 7th February 2009Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  8. 8th February 2009Define social mobility.
  9. 9th February 2009Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  10. 10th February 2009What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  11. 11th February 2009What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  12. 12th February 2009What is Sure Start?
  13. 13th February 2009What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  14. 14th February 2009Define 'forced marriage'.
  15. 15th February 2009Define 'cohabitation'.
  16. 16th February 2009According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  17. 17th February 2009Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  18. 18th February 2009What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  19. 19th February 2009A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  20. 20th February 2009Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  21. 21st February 2009What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  22. 22nd February 2009Define intergenerational mobility.
  23. 23rd February 2009Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  24. 24th February 2009What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  25. 25th February 2009Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  26. 26th February 2009What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  27. 27th February 2009What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  28. 28th February 2009Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.