Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 2026 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2026, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in September 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2026According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 2nd September 2026Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 3rd September 2026Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 4th September 2026What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 5th September 2026How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 6th September 2026Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 7th September 2026Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 8th September 2026Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 9th September 2026State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 10th September 2026Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 11th September 2026Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 12th September 2026Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 13th September 2026What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 14th September 2026What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 15th September 2026Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 16th September 2026What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 17th September 2026What is compensatory education?
- 18th September 2026What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 19th September 2026How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 20th September 2026According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 21st September 2026Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 22nd September 2026Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 23rd September 2026What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 24th September 2026What is primary socialisation?
- 25th September 2026Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 26th September 2026What is the medical model of disability?
- 27th September 2026Define intragenerational mobility.
- 28th September 2026State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 29th September 2026What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 30th September 2026What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?