Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2026 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2026, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2026Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 2nd April 2026What is compensatory education?
- 3rd April 2026What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 4th April 2026Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 5th April 2026What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 6th April 2026Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 7th April 2026What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 8th April 2026What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 9th April 2026What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 10th April 2026Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 11th April 2026What is the medical model of disability?
- 12th April 2026Define intragenerational mobility.
- 13th April 2026Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 14th April 2026What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 15th April 2026What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 16th April 2026What is the Pupil Premium?
- 17th April 2026What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 18th April 2026Define 'forced marriage'.
- 19th April 2026Define 'cohabitation'.
- 20th April 2026According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 21st April 2026Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 22nd April 2026What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 23rd April 2026A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 24th April 2026Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 25th April 2026Define globalisation.
- 26th April 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.
- 27th April 2026Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 28th April 2026What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 29th April 2026Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 30th April 2026Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.