Complete AQA AS A Level Sociology Families and Households Unit

These resources have been designed for the AQA A level / AS level sociology exam board and meet their assessment objectives (knowledge, understanding, application, analysis and evaluation skils. The resources cover the following topic areas. The resources are mainly powerpoints with student activities in them. The resources use model essays, scaffolding for essay writting, quizzing for recall/ retention, past exam questions, assessment for learning questions, deliberate practice and dual coding of concepts. Where it’s stated to read the textbook, the textbook used is the either thw AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a AS resource) or AQA A Level Sociology Book two Including A Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a A level resource. Visit my TES resource shop for more complete A level sociology resources. This is a large file so please download the second part of this unit at my shop.

Families and Households
These resources cover sociological explanations of the following content:

• the relationship of the family to the social structure and social change, with particular reference to the economy and to state policies
• changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing and the life course, including the sociology of personal life, and the diversity of contemporary family and household structures
• gender roles, domestic labour and power relationships within the family in contemporary society
• the nature of childhood, and changes in the status of children in the family and society
• demographic trends in the United Kingdom since 1900: birth rates, death rates, family size, life expectancy, ageing population, and migration and globalisation.