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A-level AQA Families Topic 2 Childhood- Has the position of children improved over time?
Detailed and differentiated student-led lesson that explores march of progress theory, Toxic childhood, Conflict theory, Age patriarchy, Child liberationism as a way to examine the different views (march of progress and conflict views) of whether childhood has improved over time. Includes views of Gittins, Palmer, Firestone and Holt, Aries etc.
Main activity requires 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
ANSWERS INCLUDED FOR MAIN ACTIVIES
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
KEY SOCIOLOGIST SHEET - AQA A-level Sociology Education: Topic 3 Ethnic differences in achievement
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
GCSE Sociology - How might sociologists explain behavior?
Explores, norms, values, culture, socialisation (primary/secondary) and social control, agencies and agents of socialisation and social control as an introduction to Sociology.
Also looks at the importance of primary socialisation and the consequences of it inadequately performed.
3 marker with a success criteria and student friendly mark-scheme
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT.
Answers included for main activities
Made to meet the AQA spec but can be used (and edited if needed for other spec)
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AQA GCSE Sociology - Research Methods: Intro lessons
L1 - How do sociologisrs collect their data?
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how sociologist collect data for sociological research (e.g. difference between primary and secondary methods, quantitative and qualitative data.
Covers the following key terms: research methods, sociological research, data, research process, Primary methods vs Secondary Methods, qualitative vs quantitative data, closed vs open questions, validity and reliability.
L2 - How do sociologists begin their research?
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how sociologists begin their research (e.g. what is meant by research design, hypothesis, research questions, aims , pilot study, the first two stages of research process and assessing its usefulness.
Covers the following key terms: Research design, Hypothesis, Research questions, Research aims and Pilot study
Makes links to key terms that students should have already covered the following key terms: Respondent, Response rate, Participants, Sociological research, Research process and Data
Answers to all activities included
L3 - How might sociologists collect their sample?
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how might sociologist select their sample for sociological research (e.g. the sampling method, consequences sampling methods may have on social research, the different types of sampling methods and how they are used.
Covers the following key terms: Target population, Sample, Sampling frame, Probability (or random sampling) vs Non-probability sampling, Simple random sampling, Systematic random sampling, Stratified random sampling, Snowball sampling, Quota sampling, Representative sample vs unrepresentative sample, Generalise; Generalisability; To make generalisations, Opportunity sampling extension), Cluster sampling (extension) and Positivists vs interpretvivists (extension)
Answers to most activities are included
L4 - What PET issues might sociologists need to consider when conducting research?
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what are PET issues that sociologists consider when designing and conducting research (e.g. define and identify possible practical, ethical and theoretical (PET) advantages and disadvantages of social research and explaining PET’s differences
Covers the following key terms: Practical issue, Ethical issues, Theoretical issues,Anonymity, Confidentiality , Informed consent, Covert research (extension), Pseudonym (extension), Mixed method (extension) Findings (of research) (extension).
Key bodies, laws and theories we will cover: British Sociological Association, Data Protection Act 1998, Positivism, Interpretivism
Answers to most main activities are included
RESOURCES FOR ALL LESSONS CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT IF NOT INCLUDED AS A SEPARATE DOCUMENT.
AQA GCSE Sociology - Research Methods: How might sociologist select their sample?
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how might sociologist select their sample for sociological research (e.g. the sampling method, consequences sampling methods may have on social research, the different types of sampling methods and how they are used.
Covers the following key terms: Target population, Sample, Sampling frame, Probability (or random sampling) vs Non-probability sampling, Simple random sampling, Systematic random sampling, Stratified random sampling, Snowball sampling, Quota sampling, Representative sample vs unrepresentative sample, Generalise; Generalisability; To make generalisations, Opportunity sampling extension), Cluster sampling (extension) and Positivists vs interpretvivists (extension)
Answers to most activities are included
AQA GCSE Sociology Different family structures introduction
Detailed lessons with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand different family structures
Covers the following key terms: family, cohabitation, household, family form, family diversity, nuclear family,lone-parent family, same-sex family, reconstituted family, extended family and empty-nest family.
Answers to main activities are included
Students should know the following key terms prior to reading: contemporary society, homosexuality, heterosexuality
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 exam boards.
AQA GCSE Sociology - Research Methods: How do sociologists begin their research?
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how sociologists begin their research (e.g. what is meant by research design, hypothesis, research questions, aims , pilot study, the first two stages of research process and assessing its usefulness.
Covers the following key terms: Research design, Hypothesis, Research questions, Research aims and Pilot study
Makes links to key terms that students should have already covered the following key terms: Respondent, Response rate, Participants, Sociological research, Research process and Data
Answers to all activities included
resources can be found at the end of the PPT
AQA GCSE Sociology - Research Methods: How do sociologists collect their data?
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how sociologist collect data for sociological research (e.g. difference between primary and secondary methods, quantitative and qualitative data, the strengths and weaknesses of primary and secondary methods, standardisation and social process
Covers the following key terms: research methods, sociological research, data, research process, Primary methods vs Secondary Methods, qualitative vs quantitative data, closed vs open questions, validity and reliability.
Answers to all main activities included
Resources can be found at the end of the PTT
AQA A - level Sociology -Media - what are sociological views on popular culture
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what are sociological views of popular culture (e.g. define popular culture, other terms used to refer to it, explain sociological views on popular culture and to analyse and evaluate those views.
Covers the following key terms:
Popular culture
High culture
Low culture
Mass culture
Critical Theory
Social repression (extension)
Social conformity (extension)
Tabloidisation
Infotainment
Key terms you SHOULD know that might come up:
Social control, False consciousness, Profit, Ideology, Dominant ideology/Hegemony, Class inequality, Pluralism, Neo-Marxism, Media products, Media technology, Agenda-setting, Gate-keeping, Lords of a Global village
Covers the following key sociologists: Marcuse, The Frankfurt School, Strinati, Livingston, Curran et al (2009)
**REQUIRES textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law **
Answers to all main activities included
Includes a 10 marker with three model paragraph plans
RESOURCES AT THE END OF PPT
AQA GCSE Sociology - Education: Alternative forms of education
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand alternative forms of traditional education (e.g. describe the alternative forms of educational provision, explain how the different forms of educational provision differ to traditional forms of education, analyse and evaluate the alternative forms of educational provision.
Covers the following key terms: Home education/ home-schooling, Democratic education/ de-schooling, Vocational education and training
Key sociologists mentioned that students should already be aware of: Illich (extension)
Answers to all main activities included
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT
AQA GCSE Sociology: Family - Feminist functions of the family
Includes 4 marker ‘perspective question’ on Delphy and Leonard with scaffolding to help students answer this question and others like
Includes ‘teaching to all’ activity that develops students ability to draw on the sociological perspectives and ideas they have learnt to answer 12 markers.
Includes scaffolding to help students write a paragraph for a 12 marker using what they have learnt in the lesson on Delphy and Leonard’s view of the functions of the family.
ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
AQA GCSE Sociology: Family - 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
AQA GCSE Sociology Education - Education policies from 1988 (marketisation)
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what impact might marketisation have had on British education system ( define marketisation, the impact of the 1988 Education Reform act on the British education system and the policies it brought about).
Includes ‘teaching to all’ pedagogical technique
Cover the following key terms:
Marketisation
Marketisation of education
Market forces (extension)
Privatisation (of education)
Covers the following reforms:
1988 Education Reform Act
Covers the following policies:
League tables
Ofsted reports
Academies
Free schools
Specialist schools
Open enrolment
Business sponsorship
ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED .
Key terms students should know that link: Education reform/ policy Labelling, Streaming, Setting, Banding, Academies, Free-schools, Differences in achievement (class, gender, ethnicity), Internal vs External factors, Local Education Authority (LEA), Social processes
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
AQA GCSE Sociology: Family - 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).
AQA GCSE Sociology Education - Education policy before 1988
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand Education reforms before 1988 (e.g. The main educational policies before 1988, the impact of educational policies before 1988, how to apply sociological perspectives to educational policies and evaluate them).
Cover the following key terms:
Education policy
Education reform
The tripartite system
Secondary modern
Comprehensive system
Secondary moderns
State-run schools
Eleven- plus exam
Compulsory [state] education
Selective schools
ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED .
Key terms students should know:
Grammar vs comprehensive schools , Academies/ free schools,
State-run education/ schools, Working-class subculture, Culture Norms, values, setting Mixed-ability classes, Banding Local Education Authority (LEA), Independent/ private schools
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
AQA GCSE Sociology: Family- 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 GCSE Sociology: Family- Explaining 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
AQA GCSE Sociology: Family- 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
AQA GCSE Sociology: Family-Changes in the family over time
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand changes in the family over time.
-Includes a ‘teaching to all’ activity
-ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
-Includes a item 4 marker on Young and Wilmott’s study with lots of scaffolding to help students answer it.
Covers the following key terms: Pre-industrial society, Industrial society, Unit of production, Asymmetrical family, The Principle of Stratified diffusion, Home-centered, Work-centered, Child-centered.
Covers the following key terms that you should already know: Pre-industrial society, Industrial society,
Contemporary society, Agriculture, Industries, Industrial revolution, Unit of production, Unit of consumption, Extended family, Social mobility, Ascribed status, Means of production, Geographic mobility, Symmetrical family, Commercialisation of housework.
Covers the following sociologists:Young & Wilmott.
ANSWERS TO MOST 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.
AQA GCSE Sociology: Key term and definitions sheet - Research methods
6 page key term sheet for the research methods unit of GCSE AQA Sociology.
Made for AQA GCSE but can be used for A-level and other specs (might need to add on key terns)
Alphabetical order
EDITABLE
Includes: colour coding, examples and dome dual coding.
Matches to the key term sheets and definitions used in my AQA GCSE lessons.
Includes some key terms that link to the unit that students do not have to know but would benefit them if they did know.