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WRITING FRAME - AQA A-level Sociology: Families – Topic 2 Childhood 20 marker
Detailed writing frame that scaffolds (from introduction to conclusion) a full answer for a 20 marker on divorce (family -topic 2 childhood. Models how to use the item to select points or arguments to answer the question.
*** Based on AQA specification**
*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.
PAGE NUMBERS From Webb et al Book 1 textbook included for 3/4 of paragraphs in main body.
AQA A-level Sociology: Education Topic 3 Ethnic differences - 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
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
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SOCIOLOGY Research Methods - INTRO, PET ISSUES, SAMPLING METHODS
Detailed and differentiated set of student-led lessons made for AQA A/AS-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY but can be differentiated for GCSE (see below-L2) and any SPEC (as it goes through the main methods, terms, issues for social research in general:
Intro to Methods
Explores primary vs secondary methods, quantitative vs qualitative methods, validity and reliability as a way to introduce students to the main main research methods.
Explores practical (time, cost, research opportunity, requirements of funding body & subject matter), ethical (informed consent, confidentiality, harm to participants, vulnerable groups & covert research) and theoretical issues (validity, reliability, representativeness, methodological perspectives, interpretivism & positivism).
*** Catered towards A-LEVEL AQA sociology but if main activity can be replaced, the rest can be used for GCSE and ANY SPEC.**
*** Main activity uses pages 92-94 of the AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend**
explores sampling methods, sampling frame, representative (sample), generalising (findings) and the relationship between these and positivism vss interpretivism and theoretical issues
LESSON COMES WITH ANSWERS
Sociology Education Class diff in achievement (external & internal) Folder organisation 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
Education folder dividers - to help students separate and organise their class and home learning.
Made for AQA A/AS-level Sociology but can be used for ANY SPEC
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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.**
A-level AQA Families Topic 2 Childhood– The historical differences in childhood
Detailed and differentiated student-led lesson that explores Pre-industrial society, Industrialisation, Modern western notion of childhood, ‘cult of childhood’, Child-centredness/centred society , Infant mortality, as a way to examine Aries views and explanations of the historical differences in western childhood.
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
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
STUDENT-FRIENDLY MARK-SCHEME INCLUDED FOR 4 MARKER
AQA A-level Sociology: Education Topic 3 Ethnic differences Revision
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
NOTES -RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
AQA A-level Sociology -Developing AO3 skills - Explicit criticisms and explained analysis
Detailed student led lesson on what is meant by explicit (vs juxtaposed) criticisms and explained analysis and how to demonstrate these high level AO3 skills needed for A*-A answers for AQA exams. The lesson is adapted to stretch and challenge the most able whilst scaffolding to allow pupils who need support the opportunity to access higher level thinking.
INCLUDES:
SIX MODEL PARAGRAPHS- from theory and methods (postmodernism and Marxism), methods in context, crime (punishment), media and family. THOSE WHO DO NOT TEACH FAMILY OR MEDIA will have 4 model paragraphs in total)
ANSWERS FOR ACTIVITIES
AfL
A 7 page information sheet on explicit criticisms and explained analysis from the skills booklets (can be bought separately - includes other guidance and skills for preparing for exams) that explain the two different skills, success criteria with sentence starters of how to demonstrate each and provides brief examples (of explicit criticisms, juxtaposed criticisms, explained analysis, analysis that is limited to an isolated statement). Also includes analysis guidance and sentence starters for research methods paragraphs and guidance of how students might go even further by explaining their criticisms.
**NOTE **- Activity on slide 8 is challenging. If students struggle too much with it, show answers on slide 9 and move onto the progress check activity that will make clearer how explicit criticisms are written.
**NOTE ** -The focus of evaluations are criticisms for this lesson
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT (AND INFO SHEET FROM SKILLS BOOKLET IS ATTACHED AS A WORD DOC)
AQA A-level Sociology Education Topic 5 Role of education - Marxist view
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.
Makes links to methods in context 20 marker - provides scaffolding and possible questions that link to Willis’ study.
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.
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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GCSE Sociology – Introduction to functionalism
Explores value consensus, social order, biological/ organic analogy, structuralism, consensus theories and social cohesion as way of introducing students to the key main functionalist views and ideas.
3 marker with a success criteria and student friendly mark-scheme
Includes answers for main activities
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT.
Made to meet the AQA spec but can be used (and edited if needed) for other specs
AQA GCSE Sociology - Research methods - Structured and Unstructured interviews
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the advantages and disadvantages of using interviews for investigating sociological issues (e.g. identifying the different types of interviews and their features, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of structured and unstructured interview and be able to apply out knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of structured and unstructured interviews to 4 markers).
Covers the following key terms: Structured interview, Unstructured interview, Semi-structured interview, Group interviews (Focus groups), Interviewer bias/ effect, Interview schedule
This lesson introduces students to all types of interviews but only looks at the strengths and weaknesses of structured and unstructured interviews.
ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT
A-level Sociology Education Class differences in achievement - 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.
**ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES **
**COMES WITH FREE A-LEVEL HELP SHEET
**Made for AQA A-level but can be easily used for other specs (just need a different source of information/ textbook) **
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
AQA GCSE Sociology -Education Revision lesson
Description allows students to recap the key terms and sociologists covered in the education unit and apply this to exam questions. Goes through the different types of 4 marker (excluding research methods 4 markers) students can be asked.
ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES
AQA GCSE Sociology- Research methods-Official and non-official statistics
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the difference between official and non-official statistics, the advantages and disadvantages of using official and non-official statistics to investigate sociological issues or topics.
Key terms included: Official statistics, non- official statistics
Key terms and studies you should know what link: The Millenium Cohort Study (MCS)– The British Cohort Study (BCS) - Secondary vs primary methods and data – Data - Quantitative vs qualitative data
Answers to main activities included
includes key term and definition sheet for the lesson
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT
AQA GCSE Sociology- Research Methods - Case studies
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how to describe a case study and how it might be used to investigate sociological issues, explain the advantages and disadvantages of using a case study to investigate sociological issues.
Covers the following key terms: Case study, Mixed methods, Triangulation
Key terms and studies you should know that link: Secondary vs Primary methods and data, data, Quantitative vs Qualitative data
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT
Answers to all activities
Includes key term and definition sheet for the lessons
AQA A-level Sociology: Education Class differences in achievement - 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.
ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES AND EXAM QUESTIONS ARE INCLUDED
**COMES WITH FREE A-LEVEL HELP SHEET AND KEY TERM SHEET FOR TOPIC 1 & 2
**ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
**Made for AQA A-level but can be easily used for other specs (just need a different source of information/ textbook) differentiated down for GCSE) lesson **
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
AQA A-level Families - Couples: Money management and decision making
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
***** Makes reference to other key terms students might know that link. **
***** ANSWERS for MAIN activities INCLUDED****
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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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 GCSE & A-LEVEL Sociology Intro Key term Sheet
8 page key term sheet that includes:
Basic sociological terms needed to understand behaviour
Basic functionalist terms
Basic Marxist key terms
Basic feminist key terms
Includes some images that illustrate some of the key terms above
Made to meet AQA GCSE spec but can be used (and easily edited) for other exam boards AND for A-level