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August 1999 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 1999, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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August 1999

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in August 1999

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st August 1999Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  2. 2nd August 1999Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  3. 3rd August 1999Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  4. 4th August 1999State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  5. 5th August 1999What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  6. 6th August 1999Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  7. 7th August 1999What is the medical model of disability?
  8. 8th August 1999Define intragenerational mobility.
  9. 9th August 1999What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  10. 10th August 1999Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  11. 11th August 1999What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  12. 12th August 1999What is the Pupil Premium?
  13. 13th August 1999What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  14. 14th August 1999How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  15. 15th August 1999According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  16. 16th August 1999Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  17. 17th August 1999Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  18. 18th August 1999What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  19. 19th August 1999A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  20. 20th August 1999Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  21. 21st August 1999Define globalisation.
  22. 22nd August 1999Give 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.
  23. 23rd August 1999State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  24. 24th August 1999What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  25. 25th August 1999What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  26. 26th August 1999Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  27. 27th August 1999Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  28. 28th August 1999How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  29. 29th August 1999What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  30. 30th August 1999What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  31. 31st August 1999What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?