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AQA A-level Sociology Families: Topic 1 Couples - LESSONS, KEY TERM SHEET & REVISION LESSON
Bundle for AQA A-level Sociology Couples topic in the Families unit. Bundles includes 5 lessons, a key term sheet (for students to fill out) for the topic and a revision lesson (see below for more information on each):
**LESSONS **
Most answers to main activities included. Refers to key terms from previous lessons and units students might know that link and uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook. ALL RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END ON THE PPT
L1 - Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines and analyses the following key terms to introduce students to the main family structures: Family, Household,Family structure/ type, Nuclear family, Lone-parent family, Same-sex family, Reconstituted family (or blended family) , Beanpole family, Extend family (horizontally and vertically) , Empty-nest family, Cohabitating couples, Contemporary society, Traditional, Family diversity, Living Apart Together/ LATs (extension)
L2 - Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines and analyses the following key terms to introduce students to the traditional functionalist (Parsons) view of the domestic division of labour:
Domestic labour , Domestic division of labour, Conjugal roles
Conjugal (extension), Conjugal relationships (extension), Joint conjugal roles, Segregated conjugal roles, Instrumental role, Expressive role, Conjugal relationships (extension), Pre-industrial society (extension), Industrial Revolution (extension),
Consumption (extension)
L3 - Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines and analyses the following key terms to examine march of progress and feminist views of how women’s involvement paid work has had an impact on the domestic division of labour:
Dual‐earner couples, The New man, The ‘march of progress’ view
Double shift / dual burden, Triple shift, Emotion work, Cultural/ Ideological explanation (of segregated conjugal roles), Material/ Economic explanation (of segregated conjugal roles)
Ideology, Geographic mobility (extension), Commercialisation (extension)
Examines the ideas of :Young and Wilmott, Oakley, Hochschild , Gershuny/ Sullivan, Ferri and Smith, Crompton and Lyonette
L4 - Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines and analyses the following key terms to examine how money might be managed and how decision-making might be organised in families : Power, The allowance system, Pooling, Cultural/ Ideological explanation (of decision making), Material/ Economic explanation of inequality (of decision making),Personal life perspective (of money)
Examines the views of the following sociologists:
PAHL AND VOGLER (1993), Barret and McIntosh, Kempson, EDGELL, Laurie and Gershuny, CROMPTON AND LYONETTE, Pahl
L5 - L5 AQA A-level Families- Couples: Domestic violence
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines and analyses the following key terms to examine patterns and explanations of domestic violence: Domestic violence/ abuse, Radical feminists, Materialism,
Marxist feminism, Radical feminist explanation (of domestic violence)
Marxist feminist explanation (of domestic violence),Materialist explanation (of domestic violence)
Examines the views of the following sociologists: Dobash and Dobash, Millet and Firestone, Wilkinson and Pickett, Ansley
**KEY TERM SHEET **
Key term sheet for AQA A-level Sociology Family Topic 1 Couples that requires students to fill out the definitions themselves. Includes some sentence starters for more difficult topics.
Good form of revision for students and can be used as a revision resource to develop AO1 once filled out.
**BASED ON CONTENT in textbook - AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
**REVISION LESSON - **
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that teaches exam skills and recaps ‘Couples’ content of AQA specification; recaps the main sociologists and themes in the ‘Family’ unit, Topic 1 – Couples WHILST teaching students how to use the Assessment Objectives (AOs) -AO1, AO2, AO3- to further develop their answers using MODEL ANSWERS and examples.
NOTE – Students will need to have gone over or have a basic understanding of using a set success criteria or writing format for their paragraphs TO BE ABLE TO GAIN THE MOST OF OUT THIS LESSON – this lesson using set success criteria PEELE/A (for 20 markers) and PERD (for 10 markers).
**RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
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**ANSWERS FOR MOST OF THE ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
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AQA A-Level Sociology PLCs (ALL UNITS) - EDITABLE
NOW EDITABLE - on a word document
Personal Learning Checklists for the following AQA A-level Sociology syllabus:
Education
Family
Religion
Media
Crime
Theory and Methods (includes separate PLCs for each sub-topic and a combined PLC.
Methods in context
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AQA A-Level Sociology PLCs (ALL UNITS) - EDITABLE
** EDITABLE - on a word document**
Personal Learning Checklists for the following AQA A-level Sociology syllabus:
Education
Family
Religion
Media
Crime
Theory and Methods (includes separate PLCs for each sub-topic and a combined PLC.
Methods in context
PLCS for Theory and Methods, Methods in context and Famiy include and page numbers from the Westergaard and Townsend book one and two and Ken Browne ‘Sociology for AQA volume 2’ book (for media) for content that students might find hard to find in the textbook(s).
Topic numbers included for all PLCS.
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AQA GCSE Sociology: Family diversity lessons
L1: Explaning the increase in divorce:
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that explain the increase in divorce.
Includes a 4 marker with detail scaffolding to help students answer it. Includes a student-friendly mark scheme for self or peer-assessment.
Includes two versions of the table needed for the carousel activity - one with scaffolding and one without
Covers the following key terms: Secularisation, Stigma, Empty shell marriage
Covers the following sociologists: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Dennis , Fletcher, Hart, Goode, 1969 Divorce Reform Act, Mitchell & Goody
Covers the following key terms you should already know: Function (of an instituition), Individualism, Collectivism, Contemporary society, Consumerism/ Consumption
ANSWERS TO SOME MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
Makes references to key terms students should know – Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
L2:Theories of divorce:
Includes a ‘teaching to all’ activity that enables students to recap functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of society so that they can better understand their views on divorce.
Includes a 4 marker with scaffolding to help students answer it. Also includes a annotated 4 marker mark-scheme for self and peer-assessment and to enable students to understand how examiners will mark their 4 marker.
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
L3:Changing patterns of marriage and their explanations:
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand changing patterns of marriage and their explanations.
Examines the trends in first marriages, marriages in churches, serial monogamy and age of marriage and the reasons for them.
Provides scaffolding to allow student to apply Marxism, functionalism and feminism (and sociologists they should have previously learnt about - Parsons, Ansley, Zaretsky and Delphy and Leonard) to the changing patterns of marriage.
Mind map for main activity can be printed out or you can get students to copy it out.
Includes a 4 marker with scaffolding to help students answer it.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
Covers the following key terms: Serial monogamy, Re-marriages
Makes reference to the following key sociologists: Bridebook, Parsons, Ansley, Zaretsky, Delphy and Leonard
Makes links to the following key terms that you should already know: Stigma, Secularisation, Feminism, Cohabitation - promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.
ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
L4: Changing family patterns:
Explores the patterns of the following: reconstituted families, one-person households, dual career families, fertility and childbearing, lone-parent, same-sex couples, extended families and cohabitation.
Starter activity allows students to go through a model 12 mark answer on divorce
Provides and activity to develop students ability to read and interpret exam items.
ANSWERS TO SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT
Includes a key term and definition sheet for the lesson (new key terms and makes links to key terms students should have previously learnt that link to this lesson).
L5:Family diversity
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand family diversity.
Includes a 4 marker with scaffolding to help students answer it.
Progress check can be taught as ‘teaching to all’ activity by getting students to show the family diversity they think is the answer on their fingers (1-5)s
Includes key term and definitions sheet for the lesson (new key terms and key terms students should have previously learnt that link to the lesson)
ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
Covers the following key terms: Organisational diversity, Cultural diversity, Social class diversity , Cohort/ generational diversity, Life course diversity, Secularisation, Monogamy , Polygamy , Polygyny, Polyandry , Arranged marriage
Covers the following sociologists: 1969 Divorce Reform Act, 1970 Equal Pay Act, 2013 Marriage Act, The Rapoports Goode
Covers the following key terms that you should already know: Dual-career family, Family form/ structure/ type, Nuclear family, Conjugal roles, Conventional nuclear family, Lone-parent family, Vertically-extended family, Cohabitation , Same sex family, Horizontally-extended family , Empty-nest family, Family diversity, Contemporary society, Gender roles
Makes references to key terms students should know – Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
AQA A-level Sociology: Research Methods Revision Notes
Detailed revision notes for ‘Methods’ part of ‘Theory and Methods’ that outlines the practical, ethical and theoretical PET issues (and strengths) on the following research methods:
Experiments (the different types)
Questionnaires
Interviews (the different types)
Participant observation
Official statistics
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A2 CONTENT FOR YR 13s
NOT EDITABLE - PDF doc
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AQA A-level Sociology Education: Topic 5 The Role of education - Functionalist, Marxist and the New Right views
Includes: lessons on the functionalist, Marxist and the New Right view (see below for more detail) and key term sheet for the topic which can be set for home-learning or be filled out during the course of the lessons.
L1: Functionalist view of the role of education
Detailed student led lesson on functionalist views of the role of education adapted to stretch and challenge the most able whilst scaffolding to allow pupils who need support the opportunity to access higher level thinking.
Covers the following functionalist key functions of education: installing social solidarity, bridging the gap between the family and wider society through secondary socialisation, teaching specialist skills needed for work and role allocation.
Covers the following functionalist sociologists: Durkheim, Parsons and Davis and Moore.
Covers the following key term:
Function or role (e.g. of an institution)
Social solidarity
Formal curriculum
Hidden curriculum
Ascribed status
Achieved status
Universalistic standards
Particularistic standards
Meritocracy
Socialisation
Role allocation
Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.
Promotes, facilitates and scaffolds Oracy.
Develops the skills needed to answer 10 markers with items - allows students to apply knowledge to an item 10 marker with guidance and includes a detailed success criteria to help them answer this.
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
DETAILED ANSWERS INCLUDED FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES
NOTES -RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
L2: Marxist view of the role of education
Detailed student led lesson on the Marxist views of the role of education adapted to stretch and challenge the most able whilst scaffolding to allow pupils who need support the opportunity to access higher level thinking.
Covers the following Marxist key functions of education: reproducing class ienquality, legitimising class inequality, correspondence principle,
Covers the following functionalist sociologists: Althusser, Bowles and Gintis and Willis
Covers the following key term:
State apparatuses
Ideological state apparatuses
Repressive state apparatuses
Ideology
Correspondence principle
Hierarchy
Alienation
Fragmentation
Extrinsic reward
Competition
Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught within the education unit and for Marxism as a theory that link to this lesson.
Promotes, facilitates and scaffolds Oracy.
Provides guidance for answering 4 markers.
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
DETAILED ANSWERS INCLUDED FOR THE MAIN ACTIVITIES ON THE FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION ONLY
NOTES -RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
L3: The New Right view of the role of education
Detailed student led lesson on the New Right critique and view of the purpose state education adapted to stretch and challenge the most able whilst scaffolding to allow pupils who need support the opportunity to access higher level thinking.
Covers the following key terms:
Neo-liberalism
The New Right
Conservatives
Voucher system
One-size-fits-all approach
League tables
Ofsted reports
National curriculum
Marketisation
Privatisation
Academies
Free schools
State schools
Social policies
Covers the following key sociologists: Chubb and Moe
Uses and refers to ’AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITY INCLUDED
NOTES -RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
Key term sheet for the role of education
Alphabetical key term sheet for AQA A-level Sociology Education Topic 5 Role of education that requires students to fill out the definitions themselves.
*** Includes some sentence starters to model to students how to incorporate key sociologists into their definitions. **
*** Key terms separated into Functionalist, New Right and Marxist key terms. **
*** Includes a section with key terms that students should know from previous learning (intro to sociological theories and topic 1-4 of education) that link to this topic. **
Good form of revision for students and can be used as a revision resource to develop AO1 once filled out.
**BASED ON CONTENT in textbook - AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
AQA Sociology Crime and Deviance Workbooks: Topics 1-7
Workbooks for the AQA A-level Sociology Crime and Deviance unit. The workbooks cover topics 1-7 and should be used with the Webb, Westergaard, Trobe and Townend Book 2. The workbooks are made up of comprehension questions to help students engage with the content. Students would be expected to answer the quetsions in the booklet whilst reading the textbook. The workbooks enable students to engage with key terms by using the glossary at the back of the textbook. Workbooks also include some challenge questions that allow students to make links to other topics in the unit and course.
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AQA A-LEVEL Sociology Education: Topic 3 - Ethnic differences - LESSONS, REVISION & KEY SHEETS
INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:
1. LESSONS:
L1 - Cultural deprivation
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that introduces students to ethnic differences in achievement and explores how different aspects of cultural deprivation (language, attitudes and values, and parental structure) might cause ethnic differences in achievement. To do this, the lesson explores the following key terms: ethnic group, ethnic differences in achievement, cultural deprivation, compensatory education and makes reference to other key terms students should have previously learnt (restricted code, working-class subculture, meritocracy, internal vs external factors, cultural vs material factors)
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITY CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
*STUDENT FRIENDLY MARK-SCHEME FOR 4 MARKER INCLUDED
L2 - Material deprivation and racism in wider society
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson on how a. material deprivation and b. racism in wider society might cause ethnic differences in achievement. Makes reference to key terms material vs cultural factors, external vs internal factors, the meaning/ patterns of ethnic differences in achievement.
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
INCLUDES ORACY ACTIVITY
L3 - Negative labelling and teacher racism
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that explores the following so students are able to understand and explain how negative labelling and teacher racism might cause ethnic differences in achievement:
Ideal pupil identity , Pathologised pupil identity, Demonised pupil identity, Colour-blind teachers, Liberal chauvinist teachers, Overt racist teachers, Rebels subcultures, Conformist subcultures, Retreatist subcultures, Innovators subcultures
Differentiates between Gillborn and Youdell (or Bourne or Olser), Sewell, Mirza’s view of how teachers might be racist and how this might affect achievement for different groups.
Lesson makes links to the following terms that students should have covered before completing this lesson: Labelling, Self-fulfilling prophecy, Streaming, Streams A-C economy, Educational triage, Interactionism vs Structuralism, Stereotype, Ethnicity Cultural deprivation Collectivism vs individualism.
**NOTE – Students will need to have basic to reasonable knowledge of labelling and the self-fulfilling prophecy. **
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
L4 - Institutional racism
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that explores the following so students are able to understand institutional racism and explain how it might cause ethnic differences in achievement: Institutional racism, Marketisation (extension), The New IQism, Ethnocentric, Ethnocentric curriculum, Model minorities, The foundation stage profile (FSP), Aim Higher initiatives/ programmes
Covers the ideas of Troyna and Williams Gillborn, David, Ball, Sewell (as a criticism)
Covers criticisms of Gillborn’s arguments
Includes answers for MOST activities - NOTE - NO ANSWERS FOR ‘DO NOW’ but can be done on the board with students.
Makes some links to the following key terms students should know:
Internal vs External factors, Cultural vs Material factors, Social processes, Labelling, Streaming, Self-fulfilling prophecy
NOTE:
**** RESOURCES FOR LESSONS CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
**USE and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
**2. REVISION LESSON **
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that:
uses scaffolding to guide students in making a mind-map of the topic as a revision material
-recaps the success criteria for 10 markers with item
-provides a model paragraph for a 10 marker item on this topic
-uses scaffolding to help students write their own 10 mark (item) paragraphs or full answers.
-includes 4 different 10 markers (with item). for this topic
3. KEY TERM SHEETS
Alphabetical key term sheet for AQA A-level Sociology Education Topic 3 ethnic differences in achievement that requires students to fill out the definitions themselves.
*** Includes scaffolding, e.g. some sentence starters (to model to students how to incorporate key sociologists into their definitions) and prompts to help students remember how key term links to the topic. **
*** Includes a section with key terms that students should know from previous learning(links to key terms covered in class differences in achievement, e.g. labelling, pupil identities, material deprivation, speech codes etc) that link to this topic. **
DOES NOT INCLUDE IN TABLE key terms covered in Topic 1 & 2 Class diff key term sheet, e.g. labelling and the self-fulfilling prophecy
Good form of revision for students and can be used as a revision resource to develop AO1 once filled out.
**BASED ON CONTENT textbook - AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
**4. KEY SOCIOLOGISTS SHEET **
Alphabetical list of sociologists who attempt to explain ethnic differences in achievement. SOME scaffolding with some sentence starters, prompts to help students with what some sociologists might says and put into external vs internal factors categories .
Requires students to write done what key sociologists from the topic ethnic differences in achievement (external and internal factors).
Good form of revision and revision resource for the students.
**BASED ON CONTENT in textbook - AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
AQA A-level Sociology: Education Revision Notes
Detailed revision notes that covers all topics (1-6) in education:
Class differences in achievement (internal and external factors)
Ethnic differences in achievement (internal and external factors)
Gender differences in achievement, subject choice and experiences in school (internal and external factors)
Role of education
Educational policy
Includes an evaluation point for most if not all arguments.
NOT EDITABLE - PDF document
Includes contents page
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AQA A-level Sociology Theories of the family lessons, key term sheet and revision lesson
Bundle includes:
Lessons:
L1 Functionalist Murdock:
* Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that recaps the functionalist view of society and examines and evaluates functionalist Murdock’s four functions: Sexual function , Reproductive function , Education function , Economic function.
* Lesson makes links to other functionalist and family key terms that students might have previously been taught.
L2 Functionalist Parsons
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines, analyses and evaluates functionalist Parsons view of the family (functional fit theory) and his functions (mainly stabilisation of adult personalities – NOT primary socialisation).
Lesson explores the key terms: Functional fit theory, Stabilisation of adult personalities (Warm Bath Theory), Functional fit theory, Geographic mobility, Social mobility, Unit of production and Unit of consumption.
L3-4 Marxist
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines, analyses and evaluates Marxists Althusser, Zaretsky and Engels’ views and functions of the family.
Lesson explores the concepts: Marxist Warm Bath Theory, Monogamy , The monogamous nuclear family , Unit of consumption, Pester power, ideology, ideological function, false consciousness
Lesson makes links to general Marxist key terms and other family key terms that students might have previously been taught.
L5 Feminist
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines and evaluates Liberal (Somerville), Radical (Greer), Marxist (Ansley) and Difference feminist views and functions of the family.
Lesson explores the concepts: Political lesbianism , Separatism, Reserve army of labour, Oppression
Lesson makes links to general feminist key terms and other key terms that students might have previously been taught, e.g. Patriarchy, Capitalism, Proletariat, Bourgeoisie, Conflict theory, Exploitation, Alienation, Gendered socialisation Canalisation ,Gender roles, Warm Bath Theory, Structuralism, etc.
L6 Personal life perspective
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lesson that examines and evaluates Liberal (Somerville), Radical (Greer), Marxist (Ansley) and Difference feminist views and functions of the family.
Lesson explores the concepts: The personal life perspective, Donor-conceived children
Lesson makes links to other key terms students might have previously been taught: Interactionism vs Structuralism, Family diversity, Same-sex families
** LESSONS BASED ON AQA A-level Book 1 by Townsend
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** MOST OF THE ANSWERS FOR MOST THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED**
**RESOURCES AT THE END OF THE PPT (if not included in download folder. **
Key term sheet - on the key terms examined in ALL lessons (L1-6)
Revision lesson - Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that:
* recaps the key sociologists students learn in this topic and what they say about the function(S) of the family.
recaps the main umbrella theories that students learn in year 12 (structuralism vs interactionism, modernism vs postmodernism and conflict vs consensus theories), how they view society and how this influences functionalist, marxist, feminist and personal life perspective approaches to the family.
how the knowledge above can be applied to exam questions to demonstrate both analysis and evaluation (AO3), e.g. by highlight the similarities and differences between the different theories of family or using knowledge of the umbrella theories to evaluate theories of the family.
supports students with planning a 20 marker on theories of the family using the item.**
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AQA A-level Sociology Revision lessons for family unit
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) revision lessons for each topic within the family unit of AQA specification. Includes:
Topic 1 - Couples - also focusses on exam techniques - AO1, AO2 & AO3
Topic 2 - Childhood
Topic 3 - Theories of the family - focusses on AO1 & AO3
Topic 4 - Demography - briefly focusses on all AOs but mainly AO2 for 10 markers
Topic 5 - Changing Family patterns - focusses on AO2
Topic 6 - Family diversity
Topic 7 -Families and Social policy - focusses on planning essays using the item.
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Sociology Education AS/A-level Sociology Education Class differences in achievement Topic 1 (external factors) &2 (Internal factors)
Lessons:
L1 Material deprivation
Detailed and diiferentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores class differences in achievement the role of material deprivation in causing or contributing to it. Introduces students to material vs cultural factors and external vs internal factors. Also introduces students to how to answer 4 and 6 markers using a success criteria and student-friendly mark-schemes.
L2 Cultural deprivation
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores collectivism vs individualism, elaborate vs restricted code, subculture, fatalism vs meritocracy, deferred vs immediate gratification, meritocracy, present-time vs future orientated vs compensatory education to enable students to understand the role of cultural deprivation in causing class differences in achievement/ working-class underachievement. Also covers and supports students in answering 4/6 markers using a success criteria and student-friendly mark-schemes.
L3 Cultural capital
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores cultural, educational and economic capital and compensatory education to enable students to understand the role of cultural deprivation in causing class differences in achievement/ working-class underachievement. Also covers and supports students in answering 4/6 markers using a success criteria and student-friendly mark-schemes.
L4 - How do I answer 10 markers?
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores how to answer 10 markers, in particular for education topic 1 - class differences in achievement (external factors). Can also be used as a revision lesson for topic 1 (class diff in achievement -external factors) Includes student friendly success criteria PERD (Point+Explanation+Research+Develop) success criteria and student-friendly mark-scheme.
L5 Labelling
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores labelling, self-fulfilling-prophecy/ pygmallion effect, determinism and interactionism to enable students to understand the role of labelling in causing class differences in achievement/ working-class underachievement/ middle-achievement.
L6 Streaming and pupil subcultures
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores labelling, streaming, differentiation, polarisation, anti-school subcultures, pro-school subcultures, pupil subculture, A-C ecnonomy, educational triage to enable students to understand the role of streaming and pupil subcultures in causing class differences in achievement/ working-class underachievement/ middle-class achievement. Also covers and supports students in answering 4/6 markers using a success criteria and student-friendly mark-schemes.
L7 Class identities
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores pupil identity, class identities, habitus, symbolic capital, symbolic violence, nike identities, style performances to enable students to understand the role of class identities in causing class differences in achievement/ working-class underachievement/ middle-class achievement. Also covers and supports students in answering 4/6 markers using a success criteria and student-friendly mark-schemes.
L8-9 How do I answer 20/30 markers?
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores:
the main assessement objectives - AO1, AO2,AO3
how to answer 30 markers
allows studeNts to revise class differences in achievement (external and internal factors).
L10-11 Assessment & FEEDBACK (DIRT) Lesson
Asessment questions for A-level Sociology (4, 6, 10, 30 markers) AND detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led feedback DIRT lesson that explores recaps how to answer4, 6, 10 & 30 markers and provides answers for assessment. Includes student friendly success criteria mark-schemes.
**L12 - Folder lesson **
Explores the importance of organisation and guides and supports students in organising their classwork for class differences in achievement external and internal factors (Topic 1& 2 AQA A/ AS-level spec)
Includes:
Assessment tracker
Example of how folder might be organised
Reflection activity
**ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES AND EXAM QUESTIONS ARE INCLUDED
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Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
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PREPARING FOR THE EXAM - Family Revision and Essay Writing Bundle
Bundle includes:
Family PLC - EDITABLE - Personal Learning Checklist for the Families and Households unit in the the AQA A-level Sociology syllabus. PLC includes topic and page numbers from the Westergaard and Townsend book one for content students my find hard to locate.
Revision lessons that recaps content and/ or focusses on developing exam techniques for family topics 1-7:
-Topic 1 - Couples - also focusses on exam techniques - AO1, AO2 & AO3
-Topic 2 - Childhood
-Topic 3 - Theories of the family - focusses on AO1 & AO3
-Topic 4 - Demography - briefly focusses on all AOs but mainly AO2 for 10 markers
-Topic 5 - Changing Family patterns - focusses on AO2
-Topic 6 - Family diversity
-Topic 7 -Families and Social policy - focusses on planning essays using the item.
Five writing frames for 20 markers on family topics 2-6:
Detailed writing frame that scaffolds (from introduction to conclusion) a full answer for a 20 marker on:
-Topic 2 - Childhood - evaluate explanations of childhod
-Topic 3 - Theories of the family - whether the family is beneficial
-Topic 4 - Demography - position of the old
-Topic 5 - Changing family patterns -divorce
-Topic 6 - Family diversity - whether individual choice in personal relationships has made family life less important
Writing frames:
Supports students with planning the 20 marker (using the item) - using planning success criteria.
Outlines the success criteria and provides sentence starters for the full essay (intro, main body and conclusion). Success criteria used for paragraphs in main body of essay is PEELE/A**
-Outlines the key terms, sociologists, theories that can be used when answering the question.**
-Supports students who need support and guidance with writing essays whilst providing students who are already good at writing essays opportunities to further improve their essay skills. **
AQA A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY: Learning Journal -Exam Skills, Techniques and Revision Support Booklet (V1)
Detailed student SKILLS booklet that models and provides guidance on how to develop exam skills (AO1, AO2 & AO3) and how to use these to answer the different exam questions in the AQA A-level Papers (4, 6, 10, 20 & 30 markers). 40 page pdf document provides success criteria for the different exam questions with a model answer for each (20 and 30 markers have the same model answer – booklet specifies difference between the two), techniques for further improving answers once students are able to meet the success criteria for each exam question (A*-A answers), tips and suggestions to support and promote independent revision outside of class lessons, revision websites and channels, and podcast and a reading list to develop student’s knowledge outside of the topic.
Includes the following:
Help sheet – including the main issues students have and steps to take to tackles these; develops independence
Contents page - to help students navigate booklet
Course overview –written out for family, education, media, theory and methods (sepearately and combined), methods in context and crime ***EDITABLE COURSE OVERVIEW DOCUMENT– to allow you to edit the units you teach
Personal Learning Checklist (PLCs) for the following: Education, Methods in context, ‘Theory and methods’ (separate and combined versions), Family, Media, Beliefs and Crime - **PLCS APART FROM BELIEFS AND CRIME HAVE PAGE NUMBERS ** -for the Ken Brown textbook for media and Webb et al Book 1 and 2 for the rest .
Assessment Objectives – information on these and how to develop these skills in lessons and outside of lesson.
Exam questions – Success criteria, sentence starters, links to AOs and MODEL ANSWERS for each exam question -4 & 6 markers 10 markers 20 & 30 markers
Success criteria NOTE - ‘(D)’ IN PEELE/A (D) stands for Develop (which means to evaluate and/ or analyse) - so paragraph success criteria can be PEELE/A (I use for year 12) or PEELD (for year 13)
Further developing your answers – how to further develop answers using the AOs, improving explanation, analysis, evaluation and links - INCLUDES MODEL EXAMPLES.
Focusses on:
• Improving your explanations
• Improving your analysis
• Improving your criticisms
• Going beyond PEELE – Demonstrating more AOs
• Going beyond PEELE – Make more use of ‘Links’ to improve AO2
Other resources that might help – YouTube websites, Podcast and revision websites
Developing sociological skills outside the lesson -mind-map for umbrella theories (yr 12 – consensus vs conflict, modernism vs postmodernism structural vs interactionism in relation to functionalism, Marxism, Feminism Personal life perspective), reading list that explores sociological themes learnt throughout the course.
**BOOKLET (apart from ‘Course overview’ NOT EDITABLE - PDF DOCUMENT
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