AQA A-Level Sociology- Media representations of gender

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand Media representation of gender.
Covers the following key terms: Male gaze, Glass ceiling, The cult of family, The beauty myth, Mask of masculinity, Hegemonic masculinity, Hegemonic femininity, The WAG, the sex object, the super-mum, the angel, the ball breaker, the victim, the joker, the jock, the strong silent type, the big shot, the action hero, the buffoon
Covers the following sociologists: Children now, Connell, Cumberbatch, Ferguson, Gauntlett, Girls Guiding UK, Inness, Knight, McRobbie, Mulvey, Tebbel, Wolf, Global media monitoring
Answers to SOME activities (less than more) included
Lesson will take around four lesson periods to teach
Examines: the main features of gender representation in the media
Includes two 10 markers with detailed scaffolding to help students with answering them. One 10 marker is the starter activity and can be answered using knowledge of media representations of social groups students have learnt before
Activities require pages from the AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend
Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson