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GCSE Sociology – Introduction to Marxism
explores capitalism, profit, social class, ownership, interests, structuralism, conflict theories, exploitation, false consciousness and social relations of production as a way to introduce students to the main Marxist views and ideas.
Includes answers for main activities
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
Introduction to Sociology lesson
This is a lesson I use as an introduction to the AQA A-level Sociology course and to the sociological imagination or line of inquiry. The lesson includes:
an overview of the course, exam and curriculum
activities to introduce students to Sociology and sociological thinking/ inquiry.
suggested reading, podcasts, revision websites youtube channels that students can use to develop their knowledge and understanding of key ideas and concepts.
Expectations
Can be easily edited to meet your needs, e.g. specification, expectations and can also be used as an introduction to AQA GCSE Sociology .
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A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY INTRO LESSONS - nature vs nurture, functionalism, marxism, feminism, QUIZ & ANSWERS
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student-led lessons that help students to develop their knowledge and understanding from previous lesson(s). L2 uses page 8 from AQA Book 1 by townsend but CAN BE USED FOR ANY SPEC using resources within lesson (see below). Comes with key term sheet for the lesson.
1. Introduction to Sociology - provides an overview of Sociology course (spec to AQA A-level but can easily be edited to suit ANY SPEC and GCSE) and the sociological imagination.
2. How do sociologists explain behaviour? -Nature vs Nurture lesson -explores the nature vs debate, norms, values, socialisation (primary/secondary) and social control as an introduction to Sociology. Uses page 8 of the AQA A-level Book 1 by Townsend to introduces students to the nature vs nurture debate but this can be replaced and the rest of the lesson can still be used.
3. Introduction to functionalism -explores value consensus, social order, biological/ organic analogy, structuralism, consensus theories to introduce students to the key functionalist views and ideas.
4. Introduction to Marxism -explores capitalism, ownership, interests, structuralism, conflict theories, exploitation as a way to introduce students to the main Marxist views and ideas.
5. Introduction to feminism - explores sex, gender, gender roles, patriarchy, socialisation, gender inequality as a way to introduce students to the main feminist views of society and ideas.
6. Quiz lesson - small revision activity
25 min quiz (on nature vs nurture, key functionalist, Marxist, feminist’s ideas and terminology) —LESSONS CAN BE FOUND ON MAIN PAGE. Includes:
answers/ mark-scheme
scaffolding for students to peer assess (but quiz can also be marked by teacher)
Made for AQA but can be used for ANY SPEC
Can be differentiated down for GCSE, but I recommend purchasing the GCSE Intro lessons bundle which have alread been edited to meet the needs of KS4 students.
AQA A-level Sociology: Families Topic 7 ‘Families and Social policy’ Revision lesson
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that:
briefly recaps the main theories (Feminism, The New Right, Conflict theory, Functionalism) and theorists (Donzelot,Murray, Fletcher, Land & Leonard) and their views on the function of social policies and the relationship between families and social policies and.
models and supports students in using this knowledge to plan (using a planning success criteria) and answer (using a paragraph success criteria) a 20 marker USING THE ITEM.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
**ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
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AQA A-Level Sociology Beliefs in Society PLC (EDITABLE)
Personal Learning Checklist for the Beliefs in Society unit in the AQA A-level Sociology syllabus. PLC includes topic and page numbers from the Westergaard and Townsend book one and two for content students my find hard to locate.
AQA A-Level Sociology Media PLC (EDITABLE)
Personal Learning Checklist for the Media unit in the AQA A-level Sociology syllabus.
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AQA A-Level Sociology PLCs (ALL UNITS) - EDITABLE
** EDITABLE - on a word document**
Personal Learning Checklists for the following AQA A-level Sociology syllabus:
Education
Family
Religion
Media
Crime
Theory and Methods (includes separate PLCs for each sub-topic and a combined PLC.
Methods in context
PLCS for Theory and Methods, Methods in context and Famiy include and page numbers from the Westergaard and Townsend book one and two and Ken Browne ‘Sociology for AQA volume 2’ book (for media) for content that students might find hard to find in the textbook(s).
Topic numbers included for all PLCS.
AQA A-level Sociology: How to further develop exam answers using the AOs? - Couples Revision
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that teaches exam skills and recaps ‘Couples’ content of AQA specification; recaps the main sociologists and themes in the ‘Family’ unit, Topic 1 – Couples WHILST teaching students how to use the Assessment Objectives (AOs) -AO1, AO2, AO3- to further develop their answers using MODEL ANSWERS and examples.
NOTE – Students will need to have gone over or have a basic understanding of using a set success criteria or writing format for their paragraphs TO BE ABLE TO GAIN THE MOST OF OUT THIS LESSON – this lesson using set success criteria PEELE/A (for 20 markers) and PERD (for 10 markers).
**RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
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**ANSWERS FOR MOST OF THE ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
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AQA GCSE sociology - Research Methods: Observations
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what are the strengths and weaknesses of using observations to investigate sociological issues (e.g. identifying the different types of observations and their main features, explain the strengths and weaknesses of using the different types of observations to investigate sociological issues and to apply our knowledge of strengths and weaknesses of one or ore observations to an exam question.
Covers the following key terms:
Observation
Participant observation
Non-participant observation
Covert observation
Overt research
Hawthorne / Observer effect
Observation schedule
Overt research (extension)
Covert research (extension)
Key terms you should know that link:
Pre-determined - Closed questions - Open questions - Quantitative data vs
Qualitative data - Reliable vs Valid - Practical issues - Ethical issues - Theoretical issues - Positivism vs Interpretivist - Sample size - Representative sample - Generalise findings - Respondent - Standardised
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
Includes an exam style 4 marker with scaffolding and a detailed student friendly mark-scheme
Does NOT cover structured and unstructured observations as it is not in the specification and its quite complex.
Includes a key term sheet and definitions
AQA A-level Sociology - Media: The globalisation of popular culture
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what impact might globalisation have on popular culture and what role might the media have in this (e.g. how to describe globalisation and identify the impact it has had on popular/mass culture,
To explain the impacts of a global popular/ mass culture and the role of the media in creating it using real-life examples and to analyse and evaluate the impacts of a global popular/ mass culture and the role of the media in creating it).
Covers the key following terms: Globalisation, Cultural homogenisation , Global culture, Cultural imperialism , media imperialism, Transnational, The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism, Cocacolonisation
Covers key terms you should know that might come up:
Popular/ mass culture, High culture, Low culture, Culture, Cultural products, Norms, Values, Subculture, Cultural capital
Covers key sociologists: Strinati/Giddings/ Postmodernists, Kellner/Sklair/ Flew, Sklair/ Ritzer, Sklair
Based on the information in textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law **
INCLUDES ALL ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES
INCLUDES A KEY TERM AND DEFINITIONS SHEET
Includes an exam question with scaffolding
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END PPT
AQA A-level Sociology: Education - Class differences in achievement (Cultural deprivation)
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that explores collectivism vs individualism, elaborate vs restricted code, subculture, fatalism vs meritocracy, deferred vs immediate gratification, meritocracy, present-time vs future orientated vs compensatory education to enable students to understand the role of cultural deprivation in causing class differences in achievement/ working-class underachievement. Also covers and supports students in answering 4/6 markers using a success criteria and student-friendly mark-schemes.
**Cover the following key terms:
Compensatory education
Meritocracy
Cultural deprivation
The elaborate code
The restricted code
Subculture
Immediate gratification
Deferred gratification
Collectivism
Individualism
Fatalism
Present-time orientation
Future orientated
**Key terms you SHOULD already know that we will cover:
•Class differences in achievement
•Internal factors
•External factors
•Material factors
•Cultural factors
•Norms
•Culture
•Values
•Socialisation
•Agents of socialisation
**Key sociologists we will cover (at least one from each bullet point):
1.Bernstein
2.Douglas/ Feinstein/ Bernstein and Young
3.Sugarman
4.Keddie (extension)
5.Troyna and Williams (extension)
6.Blackstone and Mortimore(extension)
ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES AND EXAM QUESTIONS ARE INCLUDED
**TEACHING to all activities included
COMES WITH FREE A-LEVEL HELP SHEET AND KEY TERM SHEET FOR TOPIC 1 & 2
**Made for AQA A-level but can be easily used for other specs (just need a different source of information/ textbook) differentiated down for GCSE) lesson **
Uses and refers to ’ AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend ’ textbook
AQA A-level Sociology: Families Topic 2 ‘Childhood’ Revision lesson
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that supports students in recapping the main theories, views and explanations of the position of childhood; examines how march of progress, conflict, child liberationists and postmodernist theories’ view society and how this might influence their approach or view of childhood and its changes over time. Also highlights the key sociologists (Katz, Postman, Aries, Palmer, Jenks, Gittens) in this topic.
The lesson then requires students to apply this knowledge to plan (using a success criteria) a 20 marker and write at least one paragraph for it.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
MODEL PLAN AND ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITY CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
GCSE Sociology – Introduction to Feminism
explores sex, gender, gender roles, patriarchy, gender inequality as a way to introduce students to the main feminist views of society and ideas.
Includes answers for main activities
3 marker with a success criteria and student friendly mark-scheme
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT (worksheet is in folder).**
Made to meet the AQA spec but can be used (and edited if needed) for other exam boards
Nature vs nurture - How might we explain behaviour?
Detailed student-led lesson that explores the nature vs debate, norms, values, socialisation (primary/secondary) and social control as an introduction to Sociology. Uses page 8 of the AQA A-level Book 1 by Townsend to introduces students to the nature vs nurture debate but this can be replaced and the rest of the lesson can still be used. Comes with worksheet used for two of the activities and key term sheet for the lesson. Can be used for both GCSE and A-level.
AQA A-level Sociology: Families Topic 4 ‘Demography’ Revision lesson
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson created to help students recap key ideas examined in the demography topic of the family unit, make revision materials based on this content and be able to apply this knowledge to exam questions, particularly 10 markers that makes links between topics - This lesson is very helpful for developing the skills students need for to answer ‘Outline and explain’ 10 markers which requires students to demonstrate the ability to connect two elements, aspects, subtopics, or topics to answer the question.
Lesson also recaps the assesment objectives (but can be used to introduce students to the assessment objectives) (AOs – AO1, AO2 & AO3). The lesson requires students to answers questions based on each AO and then provides guidance and support for students to use the AOs to make flashcards (with questions and answers).
**RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
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AQA A-level Sociology: Families Topic 6 ‘Family diversity’ Revision lesson
Detailed and differentiated (up and down) student led lesson that aims to recap and consolidate student’s knowledge and understanding of:
key sociologists (Parsons, Murray, Chester and Benson, Stacey, Beck, Giddens and more)
key terms (Rapoports’ different types of diversity, neo-conventional Pure relationship, Risk society, negotiated family, individualisation thesis, Divorce-extended family, 'Families of choice’, Fragmentation and diversity, Connected thesis and more) in the family diversity topic of the family unit.
the main difference in modernist and postmodernist views of: society, the family AND explanations of family diversity.
INCLUDES STUDENT FRIENDLY MARK-SCHEME FOR 10 MARKER ON THIS TOPIC
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
ANSWERS FOR MOST ACTIVITIES (Recap and planning activity) INCLUDED AND CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
INCLUDES ORACY ACTIVITY
AQA A-Level Sociology Education PLC (EDITABLE)
Personal Learning Checklist for the education unit in the the AQA A-level Sociology syllabus.
Introduction to functionalism
Detailed and differentiated student-led lesson that explores value consensus, social order, biological/ organic analogy, structuralism, consensus theories as a way to introduce students to the main functionalist views and ideas. Can be used for ANY SPEC. Catered towards A-level students but can easily be simplified and/ or for younger students. Comes with key term sheet for the lesson.
AQA A-level Sociology: Theories of the Family Revision lesson -How to further develop exam answers?
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that:
recaps the key sociologists students learn in this topic and what they say about the function(S) of the family.
recaps the main umbrella theories that students learn in year 12 (structuralism vs interactionism, modernism vs postmodernism and conflict vs consensus theories), how they view society and how this influences functionalist, marxist, feminist and personal life perspective approaches to the family.
how the knowledge above can be applied to exam questions to demonstrate both analysis and evaluation (AO3), e.g. by highlight the similarities and differences between the different theories of family or using knowledge of the umbrella theories to evaluate theories of the family.
supports students with planning a 20 marker on theories of the family using the item.
**RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
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**ANSWERS FOR MOST OF THE ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND ON NEXT SLIDE AFTER ACTIVITY SLIDE
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INCLUDES ORACY ACTIVITY
AQA A-Level Sociology Families and Households PLC (EDITABLE)
Personal Learning Checklist for the Families and Households unit in the the AQA A-level Sociology syllabus. PLC includes topic and page numbers from the Westergaard and Townsend book one for content students my find hard to locate.