Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2026 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2026, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2026A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 2nd January 2026Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 3rd January 2026Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 4th January 2026What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 5th January 2026Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 6th January 2026What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 7th January 2026What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 8th January 2026What is compensatory education?
- 9th January 2026What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 10th January 2026Define 'forced marriage'.
- 11th January 2026Define 'cohabitation'.
- 12th January 2026According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 13th January 2026Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 14th January 2026What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 15th January 2026Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 16th January 2026Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 17th January 2026What is the medical model of disability?
- 18th January 2026Define intragenerational mobility.
- 19th January 2026Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 20th January 2026What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 21st January 2026Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 22nd January 2026What is the Pupil Premium?
- 23rd January 2026What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 24th January 2026Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 25th January 2026Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 26th January 2026Describe the allowance system.
- 27th January 2026Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 28th January 2026Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 29th January 2026Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 30th January 2026Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 31st January 2026Define globalisation.