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October 2018 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2018, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2018Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 2nd October 2018What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 3rd October 2018What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 4th October 2018What is primary socialisation?
- 5th October 2018Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 6th October 2018Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 7th October 2018Define social mobility.
- 8th October 2018Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 9th October 2018What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 10th October 2018What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 11th October 2018What is Sure Start?
- 12th October 2018What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 13th October 2018Define 'forced marriage'.
- 14th October 2018Define 'cohabitation'.
- 15th October 2018According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 16th October 2018Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 17th October 2018What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 18th October 2018Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 19th October 2018Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 20th October 2018What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 21st October 2018Define intergenerational mobility.
- 22nd October 2018Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 23rd October 2018What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 24th October 2018Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 25th October 2018What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 26th October 2018What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 27th October 2018Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 28th October 2018Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 29th October 2018Describe the allowance system.
- 30th October 2018Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 31st October 2018Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.