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December 2025 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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December 2025

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 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 December 2025Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  2. 2nd December 2025Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  3. 3rd December 2025What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  4. 4th December 2025Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  5. 5th December 2025Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  6. 6th December 2025What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  7. 7th December 2025Define intergenerational mobility.
  8. 8th December 2025State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  9. 9th December 2025What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  10. 10th December 2025What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  11. 11th December 2025What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  12. 12th December 2025What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  13. 13th December 2025How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  14. 14th December 2025What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  15. 15th December 2025What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  16. 16th December 2025What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  17. 17th December 2025Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  18. 18th December 2025What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  19. 19th December 2025Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  20. 20th December 2025What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  21. 21st December 2025What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  22. 22nd December 2025What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  23. 23rd December 2025What is 'secondary deviance'?
  24. 24th December 2025Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  25. 25th December 2025Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  26. 26th December 2025What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  27. 27th December 2025Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  28. 28th December 2025What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  29. 29th December 2025Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  30. 30th December 2025What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  31. 31st December 2025What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?