Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1998 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 1998, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1998What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 2nd December 1998What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 3rd December 1998What is the Pupil Premium?
- 4th December 1998What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 5th December 1998Define 'forced marriage'.
- 6th December 1998Define 'cohabitation'.
- 7th December 1998According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 8th December 1998Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 9th December 1998What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 10th December 1998Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 11th December 1998Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 12th December 1998Define globalisation.
- 13th December 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.
- 14th December 1998Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 15th December 1998What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 16th December 1998Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 17th December 1998Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 18th December 1998Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 19th December 1998Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 20th December 1998Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 21st December 1998Describe the allowance system.
- 22nd December 1998Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 23rd December 1998Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 24th December 1998What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 25th December 1998Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 26th December 1998Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 27th December 1998Define social mobility.
- 28th December 1998Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 29th December 1998What is 'primary deviance'?
- 30th December 1998How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 31st December 1998What is Sure Start?