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September 2014 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2014, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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September 2014

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 2014

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

  1. 1st September 2014State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  2. 2nd September 2014What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  3. 3rd September 2014What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  4. 4th September 2014What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  5. 5th September 2014What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  6. 6th September 2014How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  7. 7th September 2014What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  8. 8th September 2014What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  9. 9th September 2014What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  10. 10th September 2014Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  11. 11th September 2014Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  12. 12th September 2014Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  13. 13th September 2014What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  14. 14th September 2014What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  15. 15th September 2014What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  16. 16th September 2014What is 'secondary deviance'?
  17. 17th September 2014Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  18. 18th September 2014Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  19. 19th September 2014What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  20. 20th September 2014Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  21. 21st September 2014What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  22. 22nd September 2014Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  23. 23rd September 2014What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  24. 24th September 2014What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  25. 25th September 2014Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  26. 26th September 2014Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  27. 27th September 2014Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  28. 28th September 2014What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  29. 29th September 2014Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  30. 30th September 2014What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?