Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2025 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2025, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2025Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 2nd January 2025Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 3rd January 2025Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 4th January 2025What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 5th January 2025Define intergenerational mobility.
- 6th January 2025Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 7th January 2025What is 'primary deviance'?
- 8th January 2025How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 9th January 2025What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 10th January 2025What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 11th January 2025Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 12th January 2025Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 13th January 2025Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 14th January 2025What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 15th January 2025What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 16th January 2025What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 17th January 2025Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 18th January 2025What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 19th January 2025What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 20th January 2025According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 21st January 2025According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 22nd January 2025Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 23rd January 2025Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 24th January 2025What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 25th January 2025How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 26th January 2025Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 27th January 2025Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 28th January 2025Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 29th January 2025State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 30th January 2025A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 31st January 2025Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?