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April 2025 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2025, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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April 2025

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 2025

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

  1. 1st April 2025What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  2. 2nd April 2025Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  3. 3rd April 2025What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  4. 4th April 2025What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  5. 5th April 2025Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  6. 6th April 2025Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  7. 7th April 2025Describe the allowance system.
  8. 8th April 2025Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  9. 9th April 2025Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  10. 10th April 2025Define culture.
  11. 11th April 2025Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  12. 12th April 2025What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  13. 13th April 2025What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  14. 14th April 2025Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  15. 15th April 2025What is 'primary deviance'?
  16. 16th April 2025How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  17. 17th April 2025Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  18. 18th April 2025What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  19. 19th April 2025Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  20. 20th April 2025Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  21. 21st April 2025Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  22. 22nd April 2025What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  23. 23rd April 2025What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  24. 24th April 2025Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  25. 25th April 2025Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  26. 26th April 2025Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  27. 27th April 2025What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  28. 28th April 2025According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  29. 29th April 2025According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  30. 30th April 2025Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.