GCSE Sociology Practice Book 1

Formal and Informal Social Control, Functionalist and Marxist Explanations of Crime, Labelling Theory and Crime and 5 more

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Pages: 75 A4 pages (limit 90)
Chapters: 8 worksheet chapters
Questions: 130, 428 marks
Answers: Full mark schemes from page 49
Level: GCSE
For: Years 10-11, AQA

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Every chapter opens with a divider page giving its marks and suggested timing, then runs its question pages. The mark schemes for all 8 chapters are grouped at the back, so the book works as homework, as a timed test, or as revision.

01Formal and Informal Social Control16 questions · 56 marks · about 75 minp3
02Functionalist and Marxist Explanations of Crime16 questions · 56 marks · about 75 minp9
03Labelling Theory and Crime16 questions · 56 marks · about 75 minp14
04Feminist Explanations of Crime and Gender Patterns17 questions · 56 marks · about 75 minp20
05Crime Patterns by Class, Ethnicity and Age17 questions · 56 marks · about 75 minp26
06Crime Statistics and the Media17 questions · 56 marks · about 75 minp32
07Aims of Punishment: Retribution, Deterrence, Rehabilitation and Reparation15 questions · 43 marks · about 60 minp38
08The Effectiveness of Prison and Rates of Reoffending16 questions · 49 marks · about 75 minp43
▸AnswersMark schemes for every chapterp49

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The series runs to 9 volumes, in curriculum order. They are all free.

Volume 2Alternatives to Prison: Community Sentences and Restorative Justice, Situational Crime Prevention: Target Hardening and Designing Out Crime, Environmental Crime Prevention: Broken Windows and Zero Tolerance Policing and 5 more Volume 3Labelling and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Schools, Streaming, Setting and Pupil Subcultures, The Tripartite System and Selective Education and 5 more Volume 4Functions of the Family, Family Forms and Diversity, Conjugal Roles and the Domestic Division of Labour and 4 more Volume 5The New Right Perspective on Family Structure and Family Values, Money Management and Decision-Making in Couple Relationships, Forced Marriage as a Contemporary Family Issue and 5 more Volume 6Sampling Methods in Sociological Research, Questionnaires and Social Surveys, Interviews: Structured, Unstructured and Group and 4 more Volume 7Case Studies and Longitudinal Studies as Research Methods, Primary and Secondary Data, Quantitative and Qualitative Data, Reliability, Validity and Representativeness in Sociological Research and 5 more Volume 8Structure and Action, The Nature versus Nurture Debate, The Social Construction of Identity and 5 more Volume 9Social Mobility, Inequality by Gender, Ethnicity and Age, Forms of Social Stratification: Caste, Feudal and Slave Systems and 5 more

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