Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 2026 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2026, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in February 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2026Give 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.
- 2nd February 2026Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 3rd February 2026What is 'primary deviance'?
- 4th February 2026How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 5th February 2026Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 6th February 2026Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 7th February 2026Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 8th February 2026Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 9th February 2026Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 10th February 2026What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 11th February 2026What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 12th February 2026What is primary socialisation?
- 13th February 2026Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 14th February 2026Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 15th February 2026Define social mobility.
- 16th February 2026According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 17th February 2026According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 18th February 2026Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 19th February 2026What is Sure Start?
- 20th February 2026What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 21st February 2026How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 22nd February 2026Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 23rd February 2026Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 24th February 2026Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 25th February 2026State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 26th February 2026Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 27th February 2026Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 28th February 2026What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?