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June 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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June 2009

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in June 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 June 2009Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  2. 2nd June 2009What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  3. 3rd June 2009Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  4. 4th June 2009Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  5. 5th June 2009What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  6. 6th June 2009Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  7. 7th June 2009Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  8. 8th June 2009Describe the allowance system.
  9. 9th June 2009Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  10. 10th June 2009Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  11. 11th June 2009A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  12. 12th June 2009Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  13. 13th June 2009Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  14. 14th June 2009What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  15. 15th June 2009Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  16. 16th June 2009What is 'primary deviance'?
  17. 17th June 2009How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  18. 18th June 2009What is compensatory education?
  19. 19th June 2009What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  20. 20th June 2009Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  21. 21st June 2009Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd June 2009Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  23. 23rd June 2009What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  24. 24th June 2009What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  25. 25th June 2009Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  26. 26th June 2009Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  27. 27th June 2009What is the medical model of disability?
  28. 28th June 2009Define intragenerational mobility.
  29. 29th June 2009According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  30. 30th June 2009According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?