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September 1998 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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September 1998

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 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 September 1998Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  2. 2nd September 1998What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  3. 3rd September 1998What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  4. 4th September 1998Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  5. 5th September 1998What is the medical model of disability?
  6. 6th September 1998Define intragenerational mobility.
  7. 7th September 1998Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  8. 8th September 1998What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  9. 9th September 1998Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  10. 10th September 1998What is the Pupil Premium?
  11. 11th September 1998What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  12. 12th September 1998Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  13. 13th September 1998Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  14. 14th September 1998Describe the allowance system.
  15. 15th September 1998Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  16. 16th September 1998Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  17. 17th September 1998A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  18. 18th September 1998Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  19. 19th September 1998Define globalisation.
  20. 20th September 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.
  21. 21st September 1998Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  22. 22nd September 1998What is 'primary deviance'?
  23. 23rd September 1998How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  24. 24th September 1998Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  25. 25th September 1998Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  26. 26th September 1998Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  27. 27th September 1998Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  28. 28th September 1998Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  29. 29th September 1998What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  30. 30th September 1998What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?