AQA GCSE Sociology: Family diversity lessons

L1: Explaning 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

L2: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

L3: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

L4: 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).

L5: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