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Leaving Cert Home Economics: Social change

How often Social change comes up on the Home Economics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 6 of the last 10 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Social change, Higher Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Social change.

(a)Movement of people from rural areas into towns and cities?
  1. Secularisation
  2. Urbanisation
  3. Globalisation
(b)Decline in the influence of religion on everyday life and institutions?
  1. Migration
  2. Industrialisation
  3. Secularisation
(c)Increasing interconnection of economies, cultures and communications worldwide?
  1. Globalisation
  2. Stratification
  3. Urbanisation
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(a) Urbanisation

(b) Secularisation

(c) Globalisation

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Social change.

Higher Level

Asked on 6 of the last 10 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q5
2025Q5
2024Q5
2023Q5
2022Not asked
2021Not asked
2019Q5
2018Not asked
2017Not asked
2016Q5

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Social change questions

Social change, 2 marks

A reason the average age of first marriage in Ireland has risen?

  1. The legal age of marriage was raised to thirty
  2. Marriage now needs a year's notice to a registrar
  3. More time spent in education and building careers
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More time spent in education and building careers

Longer education, housing costs and cohabitation mean many couples marry later. The legal minimum age is 18.

Social change, 2 marks

What is a multicultural society?

  1. A country that allows no inward migration at all
  2. People of many cultures and backgrounds living together
  3. A society where everyone shares one religion and language
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People of many cultures and backgrounds living together

Immigration has made Ireland more multicultural, bringing new foods, languages, faiths and customs into communities and schools.

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