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November 1998 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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November 1998

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 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 November 1998What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  2. 2nd November 1998State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  3. 3rd November 1998What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  4. 4th November 1998What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  5. 5th November 1998Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  6. 6th November 1998What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  7. 7th November 1998How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  8. 8th November 1998What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  9. 9th November 1998What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  10. 10th November 1998What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  11. 11th November 1998Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  12. 12th November 1998Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  13. 13th November 1998Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  14. 14th November 1998Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  15. 15th November 1998What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  16. 16th November 1998What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  17. 17th November 1998What is 'secondary deviance'?
  18. 18th November 1998Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  19. 19th November 1998What is compensatory education?
  20. 20th November 1998What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  21. 21st November 1998Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd November 1998What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  23. 23rd November 1998Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  24. 24th November 1998What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  25. 25th November 1998What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  26. 26th November 1998Define culture.
  27. 27th November 1998Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  28. 28th November 1998What is the medical model of disability?
  29. 29th November 1998Define intragenerational mobility.
  30. 30th November 1998Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.