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September 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in September 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2011Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 2nd September 2011Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 3rd September 2011What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 4th September 2011Define intergenerational mobility.
- 5th September 2011What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 6th September 2011Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 7th September 2011What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 8th September 2011What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 9th September 2011What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 10th September 2011How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 11th September 2011According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 12th September 2011Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 13th September 2011Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 14th September 2011What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 15th September 2011What is primary socialisation?
- 16th September 2011Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 17th September 2011What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 18th September 2011What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 19th September 2011State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 20th September 2011What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 21st September 2011What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 22nd September 2011Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 23rd September 2011What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 24th September 2011How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 25th September 2011What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 26th September 2011What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 27th September 2011What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 28th September 2011Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 29th September 2011Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 30th September 2011Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?