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August 2026 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2026, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2026Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 2nd August 2026Define social mobility.
- 3rd August 2026Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 4th August 2026What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 5th August 2026Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 6th August 2026What is Sure Start?
- 7th August 2026What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 8th August 2026Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 9th August 2026Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 10th August 2026Describe the allowance system.
- 11th August 2026Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 12th August 2026Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 13th August 2026A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 14th August 2026Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 15th August 2026What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 16th August 2026Define intergenerational mobility.
- 17th August 2026Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 18th August 2026What is 'primary deviance'?
- 19th August 2026How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 20th August 2026What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 21st August 2026What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 22nd August 2026Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 23rd August 2026Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 24th August 2026Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 25th August 2026What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 26th August 2026What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 27th August 2026Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 28th August 2026Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 29th August 2026What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 30th August 2026What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 31st August 2026According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?