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June 1998 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in June 1998, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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June 1998

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in June 1998

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

  1. 1st June 1998Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  2. 2nd June 1998What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  3. 3rd June 1998Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  4. 4th June 1998What is compensatory education?
  5. 5th June 1998What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  6. 6th June 1998Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  7. 7th June 1998Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  8. 8th June 1998Describe the allowance system.
  9. 9th June 1998Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  10. 10th June 1998Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  11. 11th June 1998Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  12. 12th June 1998Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  13. 13th June 1998What is the medical model of disability?
  14. 14th June 1998Define intragenerational mobility.
  15. 15th June 1998Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  16. 16th June 1998What is 'primary deviance'?
  17. 17th June 1998How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  18. 18th June 1998What is the Pupil Premium?
  19. 19th June 1998What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  20. 20th June 1998Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  21. 21st June 1998Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd June 1998Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  23. 23rd June 1998What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  24. 24th June 1998What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  25. 25th June 1998Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  26. 26th June 1998Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  27. 27th June 1998Define globalisation.
  28. 28th June 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.
  29. 29th June 1998According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  30. 30th June 1998According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?