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July 2013 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in July 2013, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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July 2013

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 2013

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

  1. 1st July 2013Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  2. 2nd July 2013What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  3. 3rd July 2013What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  4. 4th July 2013Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  5. 5th July 2013Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  6. 6th July 2013What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  7. 7th July 2013Define intergenerational mobility.
  8. 8th July 2013According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  9. 9th July 2013According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  10. 10th July 2013Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  11. 11th July 2013What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  12. 12th July 2013What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  13. 13th July 2013How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  14. 14th July 2013Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  15. 15th July 2013Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  16. 16th July 2013Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  17. 17th July 2013State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  18. 18th July 2013What is primary socialisation?
  19. 19th July 2013Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  20. 20th July 2013What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  21. 21st July 2013What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  22. 22nd July 2013What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  23. 23rd July 2013Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  24. 24th July 2013What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  25. 25th July 2013Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  26. 26th July 2013What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  27. 27th July 2013How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  28. 28th July 2013According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  29. 29th July 2013Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  30. 30th July 2013Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  31. 31st July 2013What is meant by 'covert' observation?