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October 2010 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2010, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2010Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 2nd October 2010What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 3rd October 2010Define intergenerational mobility.
- 4th October 2010Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 5th October 2010What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 6th October 2010Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 7th October 2010What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 8th October 2010What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 9th October 2010Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 10th October 2010Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 11th October 2010Describe the allowance system.
- 12th October 2010Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 13th October 2010Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 14th October 2010What is primary socialisation?
- 15th October 2010Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 16th October 2010What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 17th October 2010What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 18th October 2010Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 19th October 2010What is 'primary deviance'?
- 20th October 2010How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 21st October 2010Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 22nd October 2010What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 23rd October 2010Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 24th October 2010Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 25th October 2010Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 26th October 2010What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 27th October 2010What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 28th October 2010Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 29th October 2010Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 30th October 2010Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 31st October 2010What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?