Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2025 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2025, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2025What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 2nd October 2025Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 3rd October 2025What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 4th October 2025Define 'forced marriage'.
- 5th October 2025Define 'cohabitation'.
- 6th October 2025According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 7th October 2025Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 8th October 2025What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 9th October 2025Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 10th October 2025Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 11th October 2025Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 12th October 2025What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 13th October 2025Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 14th October 2025What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 15th October 2025Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 16th October 2025What is compensatory education?
- 17th October 2025What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 18th October 2025Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 19th October 2025Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 20th October 2025Describe the allowance system.
- 21st October 2025Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 22nd October 2025Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 23rd October 2025What is primary socialisation?
- 24th October 2025Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 25th October 2025What is the medical model of disability?
- 26th October 2025Define intragenerational mobility.
- 27th October 2025Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 28th October 2025What is 'primary deviance'?
- 29th October 2025How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 30th October 2025What is the Pupil Premium?
- 31st October 2025What is the difference between streaming and setting?