Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 2000 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2000, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in February 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2000What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 2nd February 2000What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 3rd February 2000Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 4th February 2000Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 5th February 2000Define globalisation.
- 6th February 2000Give 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.
- 7th February 2000According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 8th February 2000According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 9th February 2000Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 10th February 2000Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 11th February 2000Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 12th February 2000How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 13th February 2000Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 14th February 2000Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 15th February 2000Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 16th February 2000State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 17th February 2000Define culture.
- 18th February 2000Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 19th February 2000Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 20th February 2000Define social mobility.
- 21st February 2000What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 22nd February 2000Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 23rd February 2000What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 24th February 2000What is Sure Start?
- 25th February 2000What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 26th February 2000How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 27th February 2000According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 28th February 2000Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 29th February 2000Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?