Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Marx and false class consciousness Religion as a force of alienation Religion as a conservative force Evaluation points

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Functions of religion Durkheim, totemism and collective conscience Criticisms of Durkheim Malinowski, Parsons and Bellah (Neo-functionalism), with criticisms

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: substantive definition of religion, and criticisms functional definition of religion, and criticisms constructionist definition of religion, and criticisms

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: Ball and Youdell (2007) Political parties supporting privatisation Ethnicity and educational policy Mirza, Gillborn, Gove and New Right Similarities and continuities between government policies since 1979

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: neoliberalism globalisation marketisation left wing views of education right wing views of education evaluating the impact of educational policies free schools

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: why do governments intervene in education? aims of government intervention 1944 Education Act 11+ exams comprehensive schools school admissions and selection

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: the hidden curriculum self-negating prophecy Cicourel & Kitsuse: Ideal pupil Official Curriculum hidden curriculum functionalist, marxist and feminist view of the hidden curriculum

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: labelling and teacher racism pupils identities pupil responses and subcultures the ethnocentric curriculum selection and segregation

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: gender and subject choice gender role socialisation gender domains gendered subject images single-sex schooling gender identity and peer pressure gendered career options gender, vocational choice and class pupils’ sexual and gender identities the male gaze male peer groups female peer groups (policing identity) teachers and discipline

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: external factors: - boys and literacy (+evaluation) - leisture time (+evaluation) - decline in traditional male working class jobs (+evaluation) internal factors: - feminisation of education (Sewell) (Ringrose) (+evaluation) - male role models (Francis) (Read) (+evaluation) - masculinity and anti-school subcultures) - attitudes to school work (+evaluation) - teacher labelling (+evaulation) - moral panic about boys (+evaluation) - Social class evaluation points

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: Equal opportunities policies Selection and league tables Teacher labelling Liberal Feminism Radical feminism Symbolic capital Archer (2010) Hyper-heterosexual feminine identities Boyfriends Being “loud” Working class girls’ dilemma Successful working class girls

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: The roles of Vocational Education argued by Functionalists, Marxists and the New Right Criticisms of Vocational Education

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Includes: Becker’s Teacher Labelling theory, and criticisms Setting and Streaming Pro-school and Anti-school Subcultures

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: Material deprivation Cultural deprivation Compensatory education Operation Head Start Bernstein (1972) Sugarman (1970) Douglas (1964) Feinstein (2008) Cultural capital Material factors

Exam question model answers and complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: Strengths and criticisms of Functionalism, Marxism and the New Right Model answers for: - Define the Myth of Meritocracy (2 marks) - Outline three ways in which the correspondence principle operates within school (6 marks) - Outline and explain two roles that education fulfills according to functionalists. (10 marks)

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: Althusser (Education as an Ideological Status Apparatus) Bowles and Gintis (The Myth of Meritocracy) Bowles and Gintis (The Correspondence Principle) Willis (Learning to Labour study) Fordism and Post-Fordism Criticisms of Marxist Arguments

Aimed towards A-Level Sociology students for support alongside classroom study. Includes: New Right views on society Neoliberalism Neoconservativism 1988 Education Reform Act New Right Education Market New Labour

Aimed towards A-Level Sociology Students for support alongside classroom study. Includes: Key Terms Durkheim’s two functions of Education (Social Solidarity, Specialist Skills) Parson’s function of Education (Focal Socialising Agency) Davis and Moore’s function of Education (Role Allocation) Criticisms of Functionalist Arguments

Aimed at GCSE and A Level Sociology students to support classroom study. (4 lesson bundle) Introduction: What is Sociology? What are Social Factors? Culture Lesson 1: Social Factors - DRCAGES (Disability, Race, Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality) Sociological Theory - Marxism, Functionalism, Feminism, Interactionism, New Right (political thinkers) -Marxism - Karl Marx and the Basis of Marxist Arguments - Key Terms - Criticisms of Marxism* Lesson 2: Feminism - Basis of Feminist Arguments - Key Terms - Types of Feminism (Liberal, Radical, Difference/Postmodernist, Marxist, Dual Systems) - Key Feminist Sociologists (Anne Oakley, Walby, Delphy and Leonard)* Lesson 3: The New Right - Beliefs about society - Liberal New Right - Conservative New Right*