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August 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2012What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 2nd August 2012Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 3rd August 2012Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 4th August 2012What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 5th August 2012Define intergenerational mobility.
- 6th August 2012Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 7th August 2012What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 8th August 2012What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 9th August 2012What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 10th August 2012What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 11th August 2012Define 'forced marriage'.
- 12th August 2012Define 'cohabitation'.
- 13th August 2012According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 14th August 2012Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 15th August 2012What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 16th August 2012What is primary socialisation?
- 17th August 2012Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 18th August 2012What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 19th August 2012What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 20th August 2012Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 21st August 2012What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 22nd August 2012Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 23rd August 2012Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 24th August 2012What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 25th August 2012Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 26th August 2012Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 27th August 2012Describe the allowance system.
- 28th August 2012Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 29th August 2012Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 30th August 2012Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 31st August 2012Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?