Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2025 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2025, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2025What is compensatory education?
- 2nd May 2025What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 3rd May 2025How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 4th May 2025Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 5th May 2025Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 6th May 2025Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 7th May 2025State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 8th May 2025What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 9th May 2025Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 10th May 2025What is the medical model of disability?
- 11th May 2025Define intragenerational mobility.
- 12th May 2025What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 13th May 2025Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 14th May 2025What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 15th May 2025What is the Pupil Premium?
- 16th May 2025What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 17th May 2025How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 18th May 2025According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 19th May 2025Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 20th May 2025Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 21st May 2025What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 22nd May 2025A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 23rd May 2025Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 24th May 2025Define globalisation.
- 25th May 2025Give 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.
- 26th May 2025State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 27th May 2025What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 28th May 2025What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 29th May 2025Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 30th May 2025Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 31st May 2025How might feminists explain forced marriage?