I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
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I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
*PLEASE REVIEW*
I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
I produce video resources here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31WbZO2OQW3Ul108I0QUmw
This pack contains a 23-slide PowerPoint and a 27-page student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter:
Labelling task - students add ‘labels’ to different groups in society
Feedback and discussion
Introducing: Labelling Theory of C&D
Case study: David Lammy: Hoodies - short video of MP D. Lammy discussing the different labels that are applied to him
Who Gets Labelled?
Cicourel [86] - The Negotiation of Justice / Class Bias
examples of class and ethnic bias are presented and can be discussed
The Negotiation of Justice / Class Bias
Case study - discussion of the Racial Disparity In Sentencing study
Students are presented with the findings of the report and are given time to discuss
Effects of Labelling
Primary Deviance
Secondary Deviance
Jock Young - discussion and critique
Deviance Amplification Spiral
'Mods and Rockers' video and feedback task
Reading/consolidation task
Jon Ronson - "So, You've Been Publically Shamed" video and dicusssion
John Braithwaite
Degenerative Shaming
Reinterogative Shaming
Evaluation of Labelling Theory
Booklet - contains several articles, tasks and assessment tasks.
30-mark exam question included and could be set to as homework / used as the basic for a planning/exam skills session.
This pack contains a 17 page PowerPoint and accompanying student booklet
This PowerPoint offers a basic introduction to the Paper 3 Crime & Deviance paper. The lesson covers:
Break down of Paper 3
this looks at question types, structure of the paper, past paper is included in the PowerPoint and booklet
Past paper activity can be used to drive a Q&A or a ‘deep dive’ with students discussing potential answers to questions so the teacher can assess pre-existing knowledge
Key terms defined: CRIME / DEVIANCE (with examples of each)
Discussion of the distinction between Crime and Deviance
Student led activity / debate - students are presened with SIX questions and are asked to discuss and feedback - this task could be used to guide a debate between groups of students
Consolidation task
students to research, define and provide examples for a list of key terms that will be used througout the module
Booklet - gapped handout, areas to fill in, space for note, all key information is recorded in the booklet
This pack contains a 30-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying 21-page student-booklet that covers the following:
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Starter task**
Following a short reading task, student to answer questions about The Conventions of International Law
Crime and Globalisation:
re-cap 'Globalisaiton'
'How May Globalisation Change Crime'? task
Castells 'forms of crime':
Arms trafficking
Sex Tourism
Trafficking in Body Parts
Cyber Crimes
Green Crimes
The Drug Trade
international Tourism
Smuggling
Crime - supply and demand led: third world nations and the appeal of crime
Risk Consciousness
Ian Taylor and Left Realism
Gobalisation changes patterns of crime
'Case Study: Bangladesh Factory Collapse [2013]
Reading and comprehension task:
Cimes of Globalisation, Rothe & Friedrichs
Patterns of Criminal Organisation
Winlow: Bouncers; Globalisation and de-industrialisation
Hobbs and Dunnigham: GLOCAL systems
Glenny: McMafia
Case study: Oligarchs
(reading, video task)
Green Crime
Examples of Green Crime - task
Traditional Criminology
Green Criminology
Zemiology
TWO Views of Harms
Anthropocentric view
Ecocentric view
Green Crimes
Primary Green Crimes
Secondary Green Crimes
Evaluation of Green Crimes
AQA SOCIOLOGY – PAPER 3 CRIME & DEVIANCE – GENDER AND CRIME [TWO LESSONS]
This pack contains TWO lessons that cover CRIME & DEVIANCE: GENDER
Each lesson comes with accompanying student booklet that can be filled in during the lesson as you teach
Lesson 1 is a 33-slide PowerPoint that covers:
Starter Task - Gender and Crime
Students given time to discuss and feedback their intial views of Crime and gender
Starting points - general differences between men, women and their realtionship with crime
Gender Patterns in Crime [general statistics]
Do Women Commit Less Crime?
Chivalry test
Evidence for the Chivalry Thesis
Evidence against the Chivalry Thesis
Self-report questionnaire - example and task/activity
Bias Against Women
Feminist Rejection of Chivalry Thesis
Issue developed and discussed with students
Quotes and views of prominent men in positions of power are provided to inspire discussion amongst students
Explaining Female Crime
Sex Role Theory
Patriarchal Control Theory
Control at home
Control at Work
Control in Public
Liberation Theory
Carlen: Class and Gender Deals
The Class Deal
The Gender Deal
Evaluation of arguements covered in this PowerPoint
Lesson 2 is a 24-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers:
Liberation Thesis
Alder [75]
Development of Alder's ideas
Case Study: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
Critiques of Liberation Thesis
Women and Violent Crime
Hand and Dodd
Rise of arrests for female violence
‘Widening the net’
Rise of Ladettes
Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Gender and Victimisation
Key statistics: Homicide Victims, Victims of Violence
Why do Women Commit Crime?
Student discussion
Hegemonic Masculinity
Subordinated Masculinities
Messerschmidt:
White middle class man
White working class men
Black working class men
Critiques of Messerschmidt
Winlow: Postmodernity, Masculinity and Crime
Globalisation and DeIndustrialisation
Topic Summary
Consolidation / assessment quiz
Questions and answers provided
This pack contains a 39 slide PowerPoint and a student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter task - student perceptions of ethnicity in education
Overview of Internal and External factors
Tony Sewel - Fathers, Gangs, Culture
Asian Families; Asian work ethnic, resistance to racism
White Working Class Families
Critiques of Cultural Deprivation theory
Material Deprivation and Class
Racism in Wider Society
Case study: racism in wider society
Documentary analysis: David Harwood’s “Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minister?”
This pack contains a 56-slide PowerPoint and accompanying 25-page student booklet
The pack also contains a 2-page condensed overview of this topic - great exam planning resource!
This lesson covers:
Starter task - questions design to engage debate and dicussion of the topic
Starter task 2 - video short videos that lay out arguments explaining ethnic differences in crime (Akala, Secret Policeman: Racism in the Police)
Ethnicity and Crime
- Victim surveys
types of data produced / limitations
Self-Report Studies
types of data produced / limitations
- Intra-ethnic crimes
Evaluation of both Self Report / Victim surveys
Ethnicity , Racism and the Justice System
Reading tasks - students read short paragraphs and make notes on issues within the Criminal Justice System:
Policing
Stop and Search
Arrests and Cautions
Prosecution and Trials
Convictions and Sentencing
Prisons
Explaining the differences in Offending
Overview of differneces in ethnic offending
Left Realist view
Relative Deprivation
Marginalisation
Subcultures
Critiques of Left Realist View
Neo-Marxist view:
Paul Willis, Paul Gilroy
Gilory - Crimes of Resistance / criminalisation of certain crimes
Stuart Hall - Policing the Crisis
Failure of British Capitalism in the 1970s - ruling class response and criminalisation of certain groups
MOral Panics
Evaluation and critique of Hall's ideas
More Recent Approaches
Neighbourhoods
Ethnicity and Victimisation
Racial victimisation
Case study: Stephen Lawrence
Case study: Anthony Walker
Detail of statistics that show racial victimisation is a significant issues in Britain
Assessment:
30-mark assessment question
The booklet contains gapped sections, note taking and other activities.
There is space in the handout for the assessment; planning activity, copy of moderators report for this question.
This pack contains the following:
Complete lesson:
Starter task (re-cap key terms)
What is a Questionnaire?
Types of questions: closed/open
Strengths of questionnaires
Weaknesses of questionnaires
Pilot Studies
Plenary assessment tasks
Booklet
Sample response to exam question
Functionalist view of Family, complete lesson and handout. The pack covers:
Re-cap of Functionalism
George Peter Murdock (1949)
Stable satisfaction of the sex drive
Socialisation of the young
Reproduction of the next generation
Meeting its members’ economic needs
Criticisms of Murdock
Parsons’ Functional Family Fit
The Nuclear Family**
Extended Family
Function of the Nuclear and Extended Family
TWO BASIC AND IRREDUCTABLE FUNCTIONS
The Family as the ‘Peaceful Haven’
Critiques of the Functionalist View
This pack contains a 31 slide PowerPoint covering both INTERNAL and EXTRENAL factors.
Poor Literacy
Globalisation and the Decline of male jobs
Feminisation of Education
Laddish sub-cultures
The Moral Panic about boys
Shortage of Male primary school teachers
Mini-assessment plenary
11-page work booklet
This pack has been designed for the AQA spec.
This pack contains a 36 slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying 12-page student booklet
The lesson covers:
Starter - most common crimes in the UK**
** Task: Pick ONE of these crimes and develop strategies to reduce instances of it
**Starter 2 - discussion: what can be done to prevent crimes?**
** Situational Crime Prevention**
Three features of SCP
Ron Clarke
Case study: New York Port Authority Bus Terminal
Displacement
Spatial
Temporal
Target
Tactical
Functional
** Evaluation of Displacement **
Environmental Crime Prevention
Wilson and Kelling: Broken Windows case study - reading task
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Social and Community Crime Prevention**
Perry Pre-School Report
Evaluation of Social and Community Crime Prevention
Surveillance
Defintion
Two type of surveillance
Sovereign Power
Disciplinary Power
The Panopticon
Evaluation of Michel Foucault
CCTV Cameras
Synopticon
**Acurial Justice and Risk Management **
Feely and Simon
Risk Factors
**Punishment**
Task - pick and crime and discussion 1 - existing punishments, 2 - additional punishments students think are appropriate - this can be developed in to a larger debate about the role of punishment/rehabilitation in society
Two justifications for punishment:
Crime reduction
Retribution
** Funcitonalist view of punishment [overview]
Marxist view of punishment [overview]**
** Imprisonment Today**
Recidivism
** Imprisonment today**
Mass Incarcertation in ther USA
** Transcarceration
Alterantives to prison **
**This pack is designed for the AQA Paper 1 - Education, Theories, Methods Paper.
This pack contains a 54 slide PowerPoint presentation that covers the following:**
*** Slides 1 - 11 -** Break down of the exam, types of questions students will face and discussion of marks awarded for each question
Slide 12 - PEEEL - how to structure answers to 10 mark questions
*** Slides 14 - 19 -** How to plan and write a ten mark response to the question: **
Outline and explain two ETHICAL problems faced by sociologists using laboratory experiments**
Slides 21 - 23 break down of another 10 mark question RESEARCH METHODS question (unstructured interviews)
Slides 25 - 28 - break down of another 10 marks question RESEARCH METHODS non-Participant Obervations
SLIDES 35 - 54: How to answer 20 mark questions
**20 mark Research Methods question: **
Applying material from ITEM A and your knowledge, evaluate how far different factors may affect sociologists’ choice of research methods [20 marks]
**20 mark Research Methods in Context question: **
Applying material from ITEM B and your knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using written questionnaires to investigate working-class educational achievement. [20 marks]
Both 20 mark questions have slides that explain:
how to read and interpret the item
structure of 20 mark responses
Exemplar responses
** The pack also contains a 20 page booklet containing 10 exemplar 10-mark questions (with P.E.E.E.L planning activities for each question.)
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The booklet also contains 10 20-mark questions with space for essay planning.
** An additional booklet is also attached - this booklet contains a sample response with assessment notes for the questio**n
Applying material from ITEM B and your knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using written questionnaires to investigate working-class educational achievement. [20 marks]
**The additional booklet also contains 2 additional RESEARCH METHODS IN CONTEXT questions with planning a tasks. **
This lesson is an introduction to the Nature Vs. Nurture debate and has been designed for the AQA specification.
The lessons covers:
Gender Socialisation starter quiz
**Starter tasks **- questions about nature/nuture. This is designed to foster debate and talking point before we explore the debate in more detail
What are genes?
Defining: Nature/Nurture
Student task to expand upon understanding
Arguments in favour of nature: Darwin, Watson
Sociological evidence: Feral Children
Documentary / video links included - tasks to follow screening of short documentary about feral children [Oxana Malaya]
Genetic Evidence: separated twins: The Jim Twins
Nature/Nurture ‘evidence’ task
Essay question - includes question, item and an essay plan.
This pack contains a 44 slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet.
These lesson is a different style than the other BELIEFS lessons on this shop. However, the content is to the same quality (These are older versions of the lessons - the price is reduced to reflect this)
Lesson 1-
What is Globalisation? re-cap
Task - make a list of all the ways religion has been impacted by globalisation
Religious Fundamentalism
Examples
Characteristics of Religious Fundamentalism
Reading / comprehension activity
Research / potential presentation activity
Students to pick ONE Religious Fundamentalist group and then research the group using the criteria covered on previous slides
Cosmopolitanism
Pilgrims
Converts
Responses to Post Modernity
Resistant Identity
Project identity
Criticism of these view points
ASSESSMENT
10 mark question included
Teacher led planning activity
Peer assessment- Students in pairs to share their responses. Students will then develop/critique/re-write their partners work in an attempt to improve it
The second part of the lesson covers:
Monotheism
Steve Bruce: Fundamentalists:
Fundamentalists in the West
Fundamentalists in the Third World
Secular fundamentalism
Huntington:
Religions and the ‘clash of Civilisations’
Evaluation/Critiques of Huntington
Cultural Defence - examples
Poland
Iran
Religion and Development
God and Globalisation in India
Hinduism
Ultra-nationalism
This pack contains a 64-slide PowerPoint presentation and 40 page student booklet
The lesson offers comprehensive coverage of CONFLICT THEORIES OF CRIME & DEVIANCE and contains the following:
Starter
Re-cap of Marxism and the Marxist Structure
The Traditional Marxist Perspective of Crime and Deviance
Marxist view of Crime
Working Class Crime
types of crimes committed by the WC
Poverty, Utilitarian Crimes, Alienation
Crimes of the middle-class
Corporate Crimes
White Collar Crimes
*** Elite Deviance**
*** White Collar vs Corporate Crimes**
Laws Reflect the needs/values of the Ruling Classes
Ideological Functions of the Law
Corporate Law - case study: 2007 Corporate Homicide Case
Mid-lesson plenary/summary task - 8 questions designed to test students learning so far
**Law Enforcement and Punishment **
Benefits Street - viewing and note taking task
Evaluation of the Marxist View of Crime
**Mid-lesson Consildation Activities: **
Mind-mapping and articles to be read/annotated
**Neo-Marxist View of Crime **
Fully Social Theory of Deviance
Stuart Hall - Neo-Marxist Views of Crime
Moral Panics - tasks, examples and activities
New Left Realism
Jack Young
Flaws in this perspective
Crimes of the Powerful
Reiman & Leighton; The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison
What is White Collar Crime?
Occupational Crimes
Corporate Crimes
The scale and types of Corporate Crime
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Abuse of Trust **
Harold Shipman case study - tasks
Case Study: Abuse of trust by the Police
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Invisibility of Corporate Crimes**
Reading task / Q*A
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Explanation of Corporate Crimes**
Strain Theory summary
Differential Association summary
Labelling Theory summary
Marxism summary
Summary of Conflict Theory
The booklet is to be filled in by students in the lesson. It contains all of the other resources needed i.e. articles, images, spaces to complete tasks, etc.
The PowerPoint is comprehensive but is also broken up in to smaller, managable sections. You are free to chop the PowerPoint up in to several smaller sessions and share with learners if that would suit your approach.
This pack contains a 29-slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying student work booklet.
The lesson covers:
PART I:
Starter Task - Brief re-cap of Functionalism
[The re-cap is a 12 - slide summary of the FUNCTIONALIST perspective. This can be cut down, removed of edited to suit your learners needs]
Definitions: Socialisation and Social Control
Is Crime Inevitable? - Crime as inevitable and universalistic
Anomie
The Positive Functions of Crime
Boundary Maintainance
Dramatisation of Evil and ‘folk devils’
Task
Adaptations and Change
Kingsley Davis - Crime as a ‘safety valve’
Bed Polsky - channeling of sexual desires
Albert Cohen
Deviance as a warning sign’
Crime and Deviance - creates jobs in society
Management and regulation of deviancy
Evaluation and Critique of the points/perspectives covered above
Series of consolidation tasks - mind maps, essay and comprehension questions, writing tasks, key terms.
PART II:
Merton’s ‘Strain Theory’
Define: Strain Theory
Structural factors leading to crime
Cultural factors leading to crime
Case study: American Dream/Wall St. crash
Five type of Anomie:
Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion
Evaluation and Critique of ‘Strain Theory’ studied in this session
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces MARXISM, and an accompanying booklet.
The pack also contains a a consolidation test to test student knowledge at the end of the session.
The lessons introduces students to:
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Definition of Marxism
Marxism as a Conflict/Structural Theory
How Marxism differs from Functionalism
Tasks that explore the characteristics of the Proletariat / Bourgeois
Discussion of the Super-structure
Plenary/Consoldiation quiz - handout and responses provided
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
This pack contains a 51-slide PowerPoint Presentation and an accompanying 50 page student booklet
The lessons covers:
Starter - students to discuss and debate rise of secularism, why religious belief is in decline, etc.
Definitions of Secularisation
**Discussion of basic census data **- introduce the central arguement: secularisation is taking place!
Church attendance in decline - reasons for this, alternative ways to interpret this data
Decline in Baptisms, rise of Bogus Baptism
Task - what others reasons can students think of to explain a decline in church attendance?
Decline in Religious affiliation
The church is losing its influence as a social institution
Decline in number of clergy - “Linda Woodhead”
Steve Bruce - Reinforce the view that secularisation is happening
Explanations of Secularisation
Religious affiliation is in decline / reasons why this is happening are discussed
Growth of Social and Religious diversity undermines the mainstream organisations
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Max Weber - Rationalisation**
Rationalisation
Desenchantment - Protestant Reformation and Maritn Luther
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Steve Bruce - Technological World View**
Structural Differentiation
Disengagement
Privatised religion
Social & Cultural Diversity
Reading/comprehension activity for students to complete independently
Feedback / Q&A
Critics of Social and Cultural Diversity
Religious Diversity
Cultural Defence
Cultural Transition
Religion as a focal point for group identity
Secularisation in America
American Way of Life
Religion has become superficial in the USA
Steve Bruce - summary and supporting evidence
Critiques of Secularisation theory
Assessment / Consolidation
in-class quiz (with answers)
10- mark assessment
This pack contains a 35-page PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying booklet that students can fill in as you teach. The pack also contains a sample answer and a seperate mock-question assessment task.
The PowerPoint covers:
Starter Task - Students view on religion and science; similarities, differences, types of knowledge-claims made by each side
Faith in Science
Manufactured Risks
Cognitive Power
Karl Popper - Open Belief Systems
The Scientific Method
The Principle of Falsification
10 min in-class summative writing task
Robert Merton - CUDOS / Norms
Science as a tool for society
Explaination of how the Protestant Reformation led to the rise of scientific thinking
CUDOS - task - students create their own list of ethics
CUDOS - define and explore the ethical criteria
Closed Belief Systems:
Define and expain
Case Study - Witchcraft Amongst Azande Peoples
Michael Polanyi
- Circularity
- Subsidary Evidence
- Denial of Legitimacy to Rivals
- Paradigms - discussion of Velikovsky
- Paradigm Shifts
- Reading task - Paradigm shifts and Scientific Revolution
Interpretivist View of Science
Students asked to justtify their ‘belief’ in several scientific concepts
Karin Knorr-Cetina - Paradigms
Steve Woolgar and LGM (LIttle Green Men}
Marxist and Feminist View of Science
Definitions
Short reading task
Reflection and consolidation task
Post-Modernist View of Science
Manufactured Risks
Techno-science
Plenary -
Consolidation activities
Sample answer - read and annotate
Planning and write a response to an exam question
This pack contains a 24 question quiz that tests student knowledge of DEMOGRAPHY.
The quiz is scored out of 37 points and is perfect for use as a starter task and/or plenary task.
Included:
QUIZ
Answer sheet
This pack covers Dark Side of the Family: Domestic Abuse - Radical Feminist, Materialist perspectives
The PowerPoint covers:
Definition: domestic violence
What do sociologists say?
Kathryn Coleman
What does Domestic Violence occur?
Radical Feminist Explanation
Materialist Explanation
Plenary - 10 mark assessment
This pack also contains:
Handout/booklet to accompany the PowerPoint - students use this in class, it contains all info they need
Assessment handout