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September 2010 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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September 2010

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 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 September 2010Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  2. 2nd September 2010A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  3. 3rd September 2010Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  4. 4th September 2010Define globalisation.
  5. 5th September 2010Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
  6. 6th September 2010What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  7. 7th September 2010What is 'secondary deviance'?
  8. 8th September 2010Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  9. 9th September 2010Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  10. 10th September 2010Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  11. 11th September 2010Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  12. 12th September 2010What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  13. 13th September 2010Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  14. 14th September 2010What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  15. 15th September 2010What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  16. 16th September 2010Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  17. 17th September 2010Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  18. 18th September 2010Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  19. 19th September 2010Define social mobility.
  20. 20th September 2010Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  21. 21st September 2010What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  22. 22nd September 2010What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  23. 23rd September 2010What is Sure Start?
  24. 24th September 2010What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  25. 25th September 2010Define 'forced marriage'.
  26. 26th September 2010Define 'cohabitation'.
  27. 27th September 2010According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  28. 28th September 2010Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  29. 29th September 2010What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  30. 30th September 2010Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.