Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1998 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 1998, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1998Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 2nd October 1998Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 3rd October 1998Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 4th October 1998Define social mobility.
- 5th October 1998According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 6th October 1998According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 7th October 1998Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 8th October 1998What is Sure Start?
- 9th October 1998What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 10th October 1998How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 11th October 1998Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 12th October 1998Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 13th October 1998Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 14th October 1998State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 15th October 1998Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 16th October 1998Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 17th October 1998What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 18th October 1998Define intergenerational mobility.
- 19th October 1998What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 20th October 1998Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 21st October 1998What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 22nd October 1998What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 23rd October 1998What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 24th October 1998How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 25th October 1998According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 26th October 1998Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 27th October 1998Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 28th October 1998What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 29th October 1998What is primary socialisation?
- 30th October 1998Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 31st October 1998What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?