Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2026 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2026, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2026Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 2nd May 2026Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 3rd May 2026Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 4th May 2026Describe the allowance system.
- 5th May 2026Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 6th May 2026Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 7th May 2026Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 8th May 2026Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 9th May 2026Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 10th May 2026Define social mobility.
- 11th May 2026Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 12th May 2026What is 'primary deviance'?
- 13th May 2026How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 14th May 2026What is Sure Start?
- 15th May 2026What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 16th May 2026Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 17th May 2026Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 18th May 2026Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 19th May 2026What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 20th May 2026What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 21st May 2026Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 22nd May 2026Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 23rd May 2026What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 24th May 2026Define intergenerational mobility.
- 25th May 2026According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 26th May 2026According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 27th May 2026Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 28th May 2026What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 29th May 2026What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 30th May 2026How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 31st May 2026Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.