AQA AS Sociology Documents

Here is a complete lesson on documents for AS Sociology students following the AQA exam board.

• The lesson starts with a quick ‘do now’, 2 questions based on the previous lesson (official statistics)
• A quick MWB recap on research methods and concepts.
• Definition of documents
• Quick discussing ‘why might we use documents in sociological research?’
• Handout on the three types of documents - encouraging class reading.
• Handout with a range of documents whereby students have to identify which are public, private or historical and discuss the strengths and limitations to each document.
• Assessing the use of documents - covering authenticity, credibility, representativeness and meaning.
• Questions engaging students to explore each of the aspects mentioned above.
• Content analysis - definition provided for students and an activity whereby students have to apply content analysis to articles from the Guardian
• Concept check handout on content analysis for students to complete after