Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 1998 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 1998, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1998State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 2nd April 1998Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 3rd April 1998Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 4th April 1998Define globalisation.
- 5th April 1998Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
- 6th April 1998What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 7th April 1998Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 8th April 1998What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 9th April 1998Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 10th April 1998Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 11th April 1998How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 12th April 1998According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 13th April 1998Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 14th April 1998Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 15th April 1998What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 16th April 1998Define culture.
- 17th April 1998Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 18th April 1998Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 19th April 1998Define social mobility.
- 20th April 1998State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 21st April 1998What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 22nd April 1998What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 23rd April 1998What is Sure Start?
- 24th April 1998What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 25th April 1998How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 26th April 1998What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 27th April 1998What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 28th April 1998What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 29th April 1998Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 30th April 1998Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.