AQA A Level Sociology Crime & Deviance - Interactionist Approach TWO LESSONS

Here are two lessons on the interactionist approach on Crime & Deviance following the AQA specification for Yr 13 Sociology students. Please leave a review if you try out these two lessons!

The first lesson will cover the interactionist/labelling explanation and the second lesson covers the effects of labelling.

Lesson 1:

• Do now, recapping on key terms used in the interactionist/Social Action approach to studying society. This encourages students to actively recall concepts and prepare them for topics in this lesson.
• Title + LO’s and fun word of the day.
• Introduction to labelling, a few short questions to encourage students to discuss labelling and how we treat individuals who have been labelled.
• Slide displaying Banksy’s work. Opens the discussion on whether or not Banksy is a criminal or does he even get this label?
• Slide showing a number of crimes, allowing students to discuss who they think is a criminal or not.
• Looking at the social construction of crime. Introduction on Becker, handout with short questions available.
• Quick activity on Pillivan and Briar, discussing the judgements used by police officers when making arrests.
• Introduction to Cicourel, looking at two case studies and discussing the ‘negotiation of justice’ followed by a handout.
• Social construction of crime statistics, fill in the gap activity for students
• Quick AFL to end the lesson on MWB

Lesson 2:

• Do now, recapping on last lesson. Quick 4 questions for students to answer in their books. For this part of the lesson, I did photocopy a section from the ‘sociology in pictures’ book but I don’t have an online copy
• Title + LO’s and fun word of the day
• Quick recap on MWB
• Based on reading from the Sociology book, students are to discuss moral entrepreneurs and answer the questions on the board.
• Moving on to the effects of labelling, discussing primary and secondary deviance (handout available)
• Applying their understanding to the study carried out by Young on the Notting Hill Hippies
• Explores the Mods and Rockers by Stanley Cohen
• Explores the Deviancy Amplifcation Spiral
• Two types of shaming proposed by Braithwaite
• Final section on labelling and the criminal justice system.
• Additional handout on a contemporary study available

All handouts are available with BOTH lessons