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December 2010 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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December 2010

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 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 December 2010What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  2. 2nd December 2010Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  3. 3rd December 2010Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  4. 4th December 2010How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  5. 5th December 2010What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  6. 6th December 2010What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  7. 7th December 2010What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  8. 8th December 2010Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  9. 9th December 2010What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  10. 10th December 2010Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  11. 11th December 2010Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  12. 12th December 2010Define social mobility.
  13. 13th December 2010What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  14. 14th December 2010What is 'secondary deviance'?
  15. 15th December 2010Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  16. 16th December 2010What is Sure Start?
  17. 17th December 2010What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  18. 18th December 2010Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  19. 19th December 2010What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  20. 20th December 2010Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  21. 21st December 2010What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  22. 22nd December 2010What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  23. 23rd December 2010A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  24. 24th December 2010Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  25. 25th December 2010What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  26. 26th December 2010Define intergenerational mobility.
  27. 27th December 2010Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  28. 28th December 2010What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  29. 29th December 2010What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  30. 30th December 2010What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  31. 31st December 2010What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?