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November 1999 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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November 1999

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 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 November 1999According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  2. 2nd November 1999According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  3. 3rd November 1999Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  4. 4th November 1999What is the Pupil Premium?
  5. 5th November 1999What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  6. 6th November 1999How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  7. 7th November 1999Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  8. 8th November 1999Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  9. 9th November 1999Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  10. 10th November 1999State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  11. 11th November 1999Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  12. 12th November 1999Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  13. 13th November 1999Define globalisation.
  14. 14th November 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.
  15. 15th November 1999What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  16. 16th November 1999Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  17. 17th November 1999What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  18. 18th November 1999Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  19. 19th November 1999Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  20. 20th November 1999How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  21. 21st November 1999According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  22. 22nd November 1999Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  23. 23rd November 1999Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  24. 24th November 1999What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  25. 25th November 1999What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  26. 26th November 1999Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  27. 27th November 1999Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  28. 28th November 1999Define social mobility.
  29. 29th November 1999State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  30. 30th November 1999What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?