Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
July 1998 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in July 1998, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in July 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1998Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 2nd July 1998Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 3rd July 1998Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 4th July 1998How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 5th July 1998Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 6th July 1998Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 7th July 1998Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 8th July 1998State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 9th July 1998What is primary socialisation?
- 10th July 1998Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 11th July 1998Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 12th July 1998Define social mobility.
- 13th July 1998What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 14th July 1998Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 15th July 1998What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 16th July 1998What is Sure Start?
- 17th July 1998What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 18th July 1998How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 19th July 1998According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 20th July 1998Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 21st July 1998Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 22nd July 1998What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 23rd July 1998Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 24th July 1998Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 25th July 1998What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 26th July 1998Define intergenerational mobility.
- 27th July 1998State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 28th July 1998What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 29th July 1998What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 30th July 1998What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 31st July 1998What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?