This lesson looks at what globalisation is and evaluates the concept. There are also activities to help students develop their explanations which links to a practice 3 mark question. I include WALTs, WILFs and checking activities in my lessons.
Covers some basic concepts and theories vital to the course. Includes:
Engaging first lesson
Marxism, Functionalism
Structure Vs Agency
Inequality
Nature vs Nurture
Norms and Values
Assessments, home learning, WALTS, WLFS, checking, activities
This lesson compares the ideas of Marx and Weber. I delivered this lesson to students after teaching them about Marx, but this could be delivered as a retrieval practice activity closer to exams.
Also includes a practice exam question with a model (exceeding requirements of the paper) on the last slide of the PPT.
Lesson looks at how laws and attitudes towards homosexuality has changed since the 1950s. Includes differentiated activities.
Lesson Objectives: define key terms, describe change over time, explain why there has been change over time.
This lesson is a single lesson that introduces poverty. Includes: definitions of poverty, how it is measured (numeracy task) and sociological explanations of poverty.
The lesson has WALTs, WILFs and checking (A4L) activities.
This is a lesson that looks at the explanations of poverty: working-class and underclass subcultures, the cycle of poverty and structural explanations. The lesson also includes a 12 mark exam practice question, checking activities and WALTs and WILFs.
This lesson looks at social identity and what makes up our identity. Identity Theory, Social Identity Theory and Labelling Theory are examined also.
Text book is needed for the first part of the spider diagram (status and roles).
This lesson is a ‘Lighting Fires’ lesson, taught at the beginning of the A Level course to get students engaged and enthused in the subject.
It looks at gender norms and values in music videos and lyrics using contemporary examples.
Please note that some of the songs contain swearing and references to sex and violence, so please censore how you see fit.
This lesson is an AQA A Level lesson on police-recorded statistics of crime.
Includes:
Home learning
WALTs and WILFs
DARTs activity
exam question
Think, pair, share
Formative assessment
The textbook referred to is the Collins Year 2 Sociology book.
This lesson looks at birth rates and explanations for a changing birth rate in the UK.
Students have already completed a home learning describing the demography of the UK.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative Assessment
DARTs activity
Exam question
Part of the Social Stratification Unit. Retrieval practice/relearning of the class system. Looks at Karl Marx and his views on polarisation of the classes etc. You will need the AQA textbook for this lesson.
This lesson is a single-period lesson on race and ethnicity. Includes - key terms, discussion activities, a short clip and note-taking. Please note - you will need the textbook for this lesson.
This is a double lesson that introduces students to the concept of material deprivation and provides an overview of its impact on education. This lesson includes; defining material deprivation, facts about material deprivation and its impact on education, drawing conclusions from data, WILFs and WALTs, checking activities, literacy and writing tasks.
Links to the articles/definition task are in the notes section of the relevant slides.
Using a number of sources, this lesson looks at the link between ethnicity and crime rates, with a focus of institutional racism.
The book referred to in the slides is the Hodder textbook.
A lesson that looks at Marxist perspectives of the family.
Includes:
WALTs and WILFs
Formative assessment
Home learning
DARTs
Book referenced is the Collins A Level Year 1 book
Suitable for a double period, this lesson looks at Labour and Coalition social policy and compares it to New Right views on social policy.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative Assessment
Exam question (this is the second in a series of lessons leading up to answering this question)
This is a double lesson that looks at New Right perspectives on social policy. The book used is the Collins Y1 book.
Includes:
WALTs
WILFs
Formative Assessment
Exam question (this is the second in a series of lessons leading up to answering this question)