Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 2026 5-a-day
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?