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November 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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November 2011

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 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 November 2011What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  2. 2nd November 2011Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  3. 3rd November 2011Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  4. 4th November 2011Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  5. 5th November 2011Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  6. 6th November 2011Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  7. 7th November 2011Describe the allowance system.
  8. 8th November 2011Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  9. 9th November 2011Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  10. 10th November 2011What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  11. 11th November 2011Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  12. 12th November 2011Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  13. 13th November 2011Define social mobility.
  14. 14th November 2011Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  15. 15th November 2011What is 'primary deviance'?
  16. 16th November 2011How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  17. 17th November 2011What is Sure Start?
  18. 18th November 2011What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  19. 19th November 2011Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  20. 20th November 2011Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  21. 21st November 2011Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  22. 22nd November 2011What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  23. 23rd November 2011What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  24. 24th November 2011A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  25. 25th November 2011Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  26. 26th November 2011What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  27. 27th November 2011Define intergenerational mobility.
  28. 28th November 2011According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  29. 29th November 2011According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  30. 30th November 2011Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.