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September 1997 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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September 1997

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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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 1997Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  2. 2nd September 1997What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  3. 3rd September 1997What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  4. 4th September 1997Define culture.
  5. 5th September 1997Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  6. 6th September 1997What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  7. 7th September 1997What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  8. 8th September 1997According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  9. 9th September 1997According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  10. 10th September 1997Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  11. 11th September 1997Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  12. 12th September 1997What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  13. 13th September 1997How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  14. 14th September 1997Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  15. 15th September 1997Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  16. 16th September 1997Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  17. 17th September 1997State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  18. 18th September 1997Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  19. 19th September 1997Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  20. 20th September 1997Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  21. 21st September 1997What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  22. 22nd September 1997What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  23. 23rd September 1997Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  24. 24th September 1997What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  25. 25th September 1997What is compensatory education?
  26. 26th September 1997What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  27. 27th September 1997How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  28. 28th September 1997According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  29. 29th September 1997Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  30. 30th September 1997Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?