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May 2010 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2010, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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May 2010

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in May 2010

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

  1. 1st May 2010What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  2. 2nd May 2010What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  3. 3rd May 2010What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  4. 4th May 2010Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  5. 5th May 2010What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  6. 6th May 2010Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  7. 7th May 2010What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  8. 8th May 2010How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  9. 9th May 2010According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  10. 10th May 2010Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  11. 11th May 2010Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  12. 12th May 2010What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  13. 13th May 2010A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  14. 14th May 2010Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  15. 15th May 2010Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  16. 16th May 2010What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  17. 17th May 2010State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  18. 18th May 2010What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  19. 19th May 2010What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  20. 20th May 2010What is compensatory education?
  21. 21st May 2010What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  22. 22nd May 2010How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  23. 23rd May 2010What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  24. 24th May 2010What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  25. 25th May 2010What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  26. 26th May 2010Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  27. 27th May 2010Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  28. 28th May 2010Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  29. 29th May 2010What is the medical model of disability?
  30. 30th May 2010Define intragenerational mobility.
  31. 31st May 2010What is meant by 'formal social control'?