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March 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2011

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2011

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

  1. 1st March 2011Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  2. 2nd March 2011What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  3. 3rd March 2011Define culture.
  4. 4th March 2011Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  5. 5th March 2011Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  6. 6th March 2011Define social mobility.
  7. 7th March 2011State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  8. 8th March 2011What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  9. 9th March 2011What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  10. 10th March 2011What is Sure Start?
  11. 11th March 2011What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  12. 12th March 2011How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  13. 13th March 2011What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  14. 14th March 2011What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  15. 15th March 2011What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  16. 16th March 2011Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  17. 17th March 2011Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  18. 18th March 2011Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  19. 19th March 2011What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  20. 20th March 2011Define intergenerational mobility.
  21. 21st March 2011What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  22. 22nd March 2011What is 'secondary deviance'?
  23. 23rd March 2011Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  24. 24th March 2011What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  25. 25th March 2011What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  26. 26th March 2011Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  27. 27th March 2011What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  28. 28th March 2011Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  29. 29th March 2011What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  30. 30th March 2011What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  31. 31st March 2011What is the difference between a norm and a value?