I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
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I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
*PLEASE REVIEW*
I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
I produce video resources here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31WbZO2OQW3Ul108I0QUmw
This pack contains a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet
This lesson is designed to be student led and contains a student presentation task - the price of this pack reflects this
Contents:
Starter
Students to discuss attitudes towards crime, punishment, government policy
REALISM vs SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM - defined
REALISM - definition expanded upon
RIGHT REALISM
Define, examples and short video summarising Charles Murray's perspective
LEFT REALISM
Define, examples and a short video
Presentation tasks
Each group will produce a poster presentation on one of the following:
RIGHT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
RIGHT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
LEFT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
LEFT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
Your presentation must include KEY CONCEPTS, CLEAR EXPLANATIONS, NAMED RESEARCH and an EVALUATION
This pack contains a 29-slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying student work booklet.
The lesson covers:
PART I:
Starter Task - Brief re-cap of Functionalism
[The re-cap is a 12 - slide summary of the FUNCTIONALIST perspective. This can be cut down, removed of edited to suit your learners needs]
Definitions: Socialisation and Social Control
Is Crime Inevitable? - Crime as inevitable and universalistic
Anomie
The Positive Functions of Crime
Boundary Maintainance
Dramatisation of Evil and ‘folk devils’
Task
Adaptations and Change
Kingsley Davis - Crime as a ‘safety valve’
Bed Polsky - channeling of sexual desires
Albert Cohen
Deviance as a warning sign’
Crime and Deviance - creates jobs in society
Management and regulation of deviancy
Evaluation and Critique of the points/perspectives covered above
Series of consolidation tasks - mind maps, essay and comprehension questions, writing tasks, key terms.
PART II:
Merton’s ‘Strain Theory’
Define: Strain Theory
Structural factors leading to crime
Cultural factors leading to crime
Case study: American Dream/Wall St. crash
Five type of Anomie:
Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion
Evaluation and Critique of ‘Strain Theory’ studied in this session
This pack contains a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying booklet.
The lesson covers:
Task / in-class debate: Is religion a force for change, or a conservative force?
Task - re-cap of Functionalist, Marxist and Feminist view of religion
Religion as a force for change:
Max Weber and Calvinism
Predestination
Asceticism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Evaluation of Weber’s perspective
Consolidation Task - answer writing
Task: Research for presentation
The accompanying booklet contains additional content (essays, cartoons and additional consolidation activities)
This pack contains a 20 slide PowerPoint and an accompanying 14-page handout/booklet that students complete during the lesson and for consolidation
The lesson covers: IDEOLOGIES - Paper 2 - Beliefs in Society
Starter:
- Define ‘ideology’
-What is the FUNCTION of IDEOLOGIES in society?
- How do IDEOLOGIES BENEFIT people/society?
- How do IDEOLOGIES HARM people/society?
Four functions of Ideology
Problems presented by Ideologies
Re-cap Marxism
Ideology and Marx
Ruiling class ideology
Reinforces Class Conscioiusness
Gramsci -
- Hegemony
Dual Consciousness
Organic Intellectuals
Nationalism
Define the term, examples included
Claims of nationalism
Reading and summative task
KARL MANNHEIM: IDEOLOGY & UTOPIA
PARTIAL or ONE-SIDED WORLDVIEWS
ideological Thought vs Utopian Thought
Free Flowing Intelligencia
Total World View
Feminism and Ideology
Reading and summative task
Summary Slide
Assessment is included in the booklet
Sample answer/essay included in the booklet
Final consolidation and mind-mapping activities also included in the booklet
This pack contains one lesson and one accompanying handout that covers
AQA year 13 SOCIOLOGY - Feminist View of Religion
The lesson covers:
Evidence of patriarchy in religion
What would Liberal/Radical/Marxist feminists think about religion task
Answers to previous question
Research tasks - evidence of patriarchal ideologies in religion
Four categories are given for the research task
Consolidation from task
Evaluation of feminist view: Karen Armstrong, Nawal El Saadawi, Linda Woodhead, Sophie Gilliat Ray Elisabth Brusco,
Secular society
Assessment - 10 mark question set
The booklet is detailed, contains additional content and further reading. Students will complete the handout during the lesson and write their assessment in the same book.
This pack contains one 18-slide lesson and one handout that cover the following:
Starter - Dissecting Marx’s ‘Opium of the people’ quote
Religion as an Ideological State Apparatus
Religion and class / prosperity Theology
Task - using quotes from major religions, students are to explain their use and link them to the Marxist perspective
Spiritual Gin / Lenin
Alienation
Critiques of the Marxist perspective of Religion
Classical vs Neo Marxist perspective
Brief overview of Ernst Bloch and Dual Characteristics
Brief overview of Otto Maduro & Religion as a Revolutionary Force
This pack contains a 23-slide PowerPoint and a 27-page student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter:
Labelling task - students add ‘labels’ to different groups in society
Feedback and discussion
Introducing: Labelling Theory of C&D
Case study: David Lammy: Hoodies - short video of MP D. Lammy discussing the different labels that are applied to him
Who Gets Labelled?
Cicourel [86] - The Negotiation of Justice / Class Bias
examples of class and ethnic bias are presented and can be discussed
The Negotiation of Justice / Class Bias
Case study - discussion of the Racial Disparity In Sentencing study
Students are presented with the findings of the report and are given time to discuss
Effects of Labelling
Primary Deviance
Secondary Deviance
Jock Young - discussion and critique
Deviance Amplification Spiral
'Mods and Rockers' video and feedback task
Reading/consolidation task
Jon Ronson - "So, You've Been Publically Shamed" video and dicusssion
John Braithwaite
Degenerative Shaming
Reinterogative Shaming
Evaluation of Labelling Theory
Booklet - contains several articles, tasks and assessment tasks.
30-mark exam question included and could be set to as homework / used as the basic for a planning/exam skills session.
This pack contains a 36 slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying 12-page student booklet
The lesson covers:
Starter - most common crimes in the UK**
** Task: Pick ONE of these crimes and develop strategies to reduce instances of it
**Starter 2 - discussion: what can be done to prevent crimes?**
** Situational Crime Prevention**
Three features of SCP
Ron Clarke
Case study: New York Port Authority Bus Terminal
Displacement
Spatial
Temporal
Target
Tactical
Functional
** Evaluation of Displacement **
Environmental Crime Prevention
Wilson and Kelling: Broken Windows case study - reading task
**
Social and Community Crime Prevention**
Perry Pre-School Report
Evaluation of Social and Community Crime Prevention
Surveillance
Defintion
Two type of surveillance
Sovereign Power
Disciplinary Power
The Panopticon
Evaluation of Michel Foucault
CCTV Cameras
Synopticon
**Acurial Justice and Risk Management **
Feely and Simon
Risk Factors
**Punishment**
Task - pick and crime and discussion 1 - existing punishments, 2 - additional punishments students think are appropriate - this can be developed in to a larger debate about the role of punishment/rehabilitation in society
Two justifications for punishment:
Crime reduction
Retribution
** Funcitonalist view of punishment [overview]
Marxist view of punishment [overview]**
** Imprisonment Today**
Recidivism
** Imprisonment today**
Mass Incarcertation in ther USA
** Transcarceration
Alterantives to prison **
This pack contains a 28-slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying 18-page student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter - Strain Theory - RE-CAP [this is an option part of the lesson]
Structural vs. Cultural factors
Albert Cohen
What is a ‘sub culture’
Status Frustration
Evaluation of Strain Theory
Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Cloward & Ohlin
Criminal subcultures
Conflict subcultures
Retreatist subcultures
Case study: The Chicago School
Reading / comprehension task
terms covered by this task: Cultural transition theory, Differential associated theory, Social disorganisation theory
Evaluation / critiques of Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Walter B. Miller - SIX Focal Concerns
Each of the six are defined and feed in to a student task:
Excitement
Smartness
Trouble
Fatalism
Toughness
Autonomy
Task - watch the music video for '*Ill Manors = Plan B* an d read the lyrics -
students are to identify how the song addresses the focal concerns, and expresses the frusrations felt by working class groups, and why this frustration will lead to crime e.g.
"Who closed down the community centre, I used to be a member, I used to kill time there, what will I do now till September? Schools out, rules out, get your bl**dy tools out"
I found this task to be very useful as it is contemporary, British and speaks to all of the issues raised by Miller et al.
**
This task can be cut out of the lesson if not needed. **
David Matza - Delinquency and Drift
Mesner & Rosenfeld - Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Short reading/comphrension task on Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Assessment:
4 and 6 mark questions for students to plan and write responses to.
Mark scheme / sample answer information provided to help students understand the expected outcomes of these types of questions
The booklet contains additional assessment and revision materials
This pack contains TWO Lesson
Lesson1 - Religious Organisation and NRMs - accompanied by a 28 page booklet
Lesson 2 - The Growth of NRMs - just the PowerPoint
Lesson 2 - The Growth of NRMs is FREE - the lesson is an older version and does not have a booklet. However, the content is great and the lesson is of a high standard.
**Lesson 1 covers:
Starter / session 1 -
**
Students are given an New Religious Movement - they then are to work in small groups to research the NRM in preparation for class presentations. - you are free to adapt and use this task as you see fit.
RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS
ERNST TROELTSCH ‘Sects and Churches’
Richard Neibuhr Denominations and Cults
Each type of religious organisation is then explored in more detail:
Sects
Case study: The People’s Temple
Denominations
Case study data included in PP
Cults
NRMS / New Religious Movements
World Rejecting
World Accomidating
World Affirming
Evaluation of Wallis’ perspective
Stark and Bainbrigde- Cults and Sects
Definitions provided for CULT / Sect, and examples
Audience Cults
Client Cults
Cultic Movements - Scientology mini-case study
Assessment:
The lesson / booklet contain several consolidation and revision activities.
There is a 10-mark assessment attached to this PowerPoint/content that teachers can set as an in-class or homework assignment.
Lesson 2 - Growth of NRMS covers:
Margninality
Relative Deprivation
Social Change
Self-identity
The Dynamics of NRMS / How they Grow
The Protestant effect
Death of the leader
Stark / Bainbridge - The Sectarian Cycle
Schism
Initial Fervour
Denominatioanlism
Establishment
Further Schism
Conversionist Sect
Adventist Sect
Globalisation
post-Modernity
individuals
Consumerism
Heelas - New Age & Modernity
source of Identity
Sense of certainty in a time of anomie
This pack contains a 30-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying 21-page student-booklet that covers the following:
**
Starter task**
Following a short reading task, student to answer questions about The Conventions of International Law
Crime and Globalisation:
re-cap 'Globalisaiton'
'How May Globalisation Change Crime'? task
Castells 'forms of crime':
Arms trafficking
Sex Tourism
Trafficking in Body Parts
Cyber Crimes
Green Crimes
The Drug Trade
international Tourism
Smuggling
Crime - supply and demand led: third world nations and the appeal of crime
Risk Consciousness
Ian Taylor and Left Realism
Gobalisation changes patterns of crime
'Case Study: Bangladesh Factory Collapse [2013]
Reading and comprehension task:
Cimes of Globalisation, Rothe & Friedrichs
Patterns of Criminal Organisation
Winlow: Bouncers; Globalisation and de-industrialisation
Hobbs and Dunnigham: GLOCAL systems
Glenny: McMafia
Case study: Oligarchs
(reading, video task)
Green Crime
Examples of Green Crime - task
Traditional Criminology
Green Criminology
Zemiology
TWO Views of Harms
Anthropocentric view
Ecocentric view
Green Crimes
Primary Green Crimes
Secondary Green Crimes
Evaluation of Green Crimes
This pack contains a 35-page PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying booklet that students can fill in as you teach. The pack also contains a sample answer and a seperate mock-question assessment task.
The PowerPoint covers:
Starter Task - Students view on religion and science; similarities, differences, types of knowledge-claims made by each side
Faith in Science
Manufactured Risks
Cognitive Power
Karl Popper - Open Belief Systems
The Scientific Method
The Principle of Falsification
10 min in-class summative writing task
Robert Merton - CUDOS / Norms
Science as a tool for society
Explaination of how the Protestant Reformation led to the rise of scientific thinking
CUDOS - task - students create their own list of ethics
CUDOS - define and explore the ethical criteria
Closed Belief Systems:
Define and expain
Case Study - Witchcraft Amongst Azande Peoples
Michael Polanyi
- Circularity
- Subsidary Evidence
- Denial of Legitimacy to Rivals
- Paradigms - discussion of Velikovsky
- Paradigm Shifts
- Reading task - Paradigm shifts and Scientific Revolution
Interpretivist View of Science
Students asked to justtify their ‘belief’ in several scientific concepts
Karin Knorr-Cetina - Paradigms
Steve Woolgar and LGM (LIttle Green Men}
Marxist and Feminist View of Science
Definitions
Short reading task
Reflection and consolidation task
Post-Modernist View of Science
Manufactured Risks
Techno-science
Plenary -
Consolidation activities
Sample answer - read and annotate
Planning and write a response to an exam question
This pack contains one 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, one booklet (to be completed by students; the booklet also contains several consolidation activities) and a starter task
Lesson:
Starter/Re-cap/revisiting activity - definitions of religion
Age
Gender
Class
Ethnicity
For each of the four groups listed above there are 2-3 slides for each.
The slides cover key arguments, contain graphs and statistics to support points, key terms are highlighted and theorists are cited.
Consolidation activity - students to read one of four articles that cover each of the groups studied in the lesson. Each student annotated, draws out quotes and key arguments and then contributes to a group ‘wiki’ page. The ‘wiki’ page can be created in Teams, or it can be created on paper, shared with the teacher and then scanned in to one comprehensive revision resource.
This pack contains a 39 slide PowerPoint and a student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter task - student perceptions of ethnicity in education
Overview of Internal and External factors
Tony Sewel - Fathers, Gangs, Culture
Asian Families; Asian work ethnic, resistance to racism
White Working Class Families
Critiques of Cultural Deprivation theory
Material Deprivation and Class
Racism in Wider Society
Case study: racism in wider society
Documentary analysis: David Harwood’s “Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minister?”
This pack contains a 56-slide PowerPoint and accompanying 25-page student booklet
The pack also contains a 2-page condensed overview of this topic - great exam planning resource!
This lesson covers:
Starter task - questions design to engage debate and dicussion of the topic
Starter task 2 - video short videos that lay out arguments explaining ethnic differences in crime (Akala, Secret Policeman: Racism in the Police)
Ethnicity and Crime
- Victim surveys
types of data produced / limitations
Self-Report Studies
types of data produced / limitations
- Intra-ethnic crimes
Evaluation of both Self Report / Victim surveys
Ethnicity , Racism and the Justice System
Reading tasks - students read short paragraphs and make notes on issues within the Criminal Justice System:
Policing
Stop and Search
Arrests and Cautions
Prosecution and Trials
Convictions and Sentencing
Prisons
Explaining the differences in Offending
Overview of differneces in ethnic offending
Left Realist view
Relative Deprivation
Marginalisation
Subcultures
Critiques of Left Realist View
Neo-Marxist view:
Paul Willis, Paul Gilroy
Gilory - Crimes of Resistance / criminalisation of certain crimes
Stuart Hall - Policing the Crisis
Failure of British Capitalism in the 1970s - ruling class response and criminalisation of certain groups
MOral Panics
Evaluation and critique of Hall's ideas
More Recent Approaches
Neighbourhoods
Ethnicity and Victimisation
Racial victimisation
Case study: Stephen Lawrence
Case study: Anthony Walker
Detail of statistics that show racial victimisation is a significant issues in Britain
Assessment:
30-mark assessment question
The booklet contains gapped sections, note taking and other activities.
There is space in the handout for the assessment; planning activity, copy of moderators report for this question.
This lesson covers Educational achievement and Social Class
The lesson is 38 slides long and covers: (approx one week of lesson time)
This pack contains a complete 36 lesson PowerPoint presentation, accompanying student handout, text book scans needed for task, sample response, mark scheme and an article covering Basil Bernstein’s Restricted/Elaborated Codes
The lesson covers:
Starter - middle class vs. working class achievement
External factors
Cultural Deprivation: language, parents’ education, working class sub-cultures
Speech codes: Restricted/Elaborated
Parents education: parenting style, educational behaviours
Cultural Deprivation - working-class sub-cultures
Bary Sugarman
Myth of Cultural Deprivation
Material Deprivation and Poverty
Cultural Capital / Pierre Bourdieu
Summary
Assessment
This is a comprenhsive and detailed look at the Functionalist view of Education.
All resources are colourful, supported with image and video resources and are engaging for year 12 and 13 students. They offer lots of discussion points.
This pack contains
46-slide PowerPoint presentation (one formatted for for PC and one for Mac)
Student booklet to accompany lessons
Sample response
Mark scheme
Assessment materials
Built in assessment
Content:
Re-cap of Funcationalism - starter
The Funcation of education
Brief history of education in the UK - discussion of the Industrial Revolution as a pivot point
Durkheim:
Transmission of norms/values
Social Solidarity
Talcott Parsons:
Focal Socialising Agent
Paticularistic/Ascribed standards and Universalistic Standards
The Bridge
School as a meritocracy
Points for and against this argument
David and Moore: Selection and Role Allocation / Inequality is necessary
Built in assessment, planning, writing and marking exercises.
This resource pack is comprehensive.
This is a comprenhsive and detailed look at the MARXIST view of Education.
All resources are colourful, supported with image and video resources and are engaging for year 12 and 13 students. They offer lots of discussion points.
This pack contains
34-slide PowerPoint presentation (one formatted for for PC and one for Mac)
Student booklet to accompany lessons
Sample response
Mark scheme
Assessment materials
Built in assessment
Content:
Re-cap The Function of education
Overview of Marxist view of education
Two class system
Class conflict
Video examples of class conflict to foster discussion and debate
Marxist view - compare to Functionalist view
The Myth of Meritocracy
Louis Althusser
Ideological State Apparatus
Education reproduces, legitimates inequality
Bowles and Ginit
Producing the next generation of labour power
The Correspondence Principal
Paul Willis - Learning to Labour
Plenary and assessment activities included.
Built in assessment, planning, writing and marking exercises.
This resource pack is comprehensive.
This pack contains a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation, a 24-page student booklet, and several other resources to be used in the session.
The lesson covers:
Starter - student experiences with crime and deviance in media
Media Representation of Crime and Deviance overview: (1 slide on each of these topics:)
Violence and Sex Crimes
Media representation of victims
Media exaggeration of certain crimes
Media exaggeration of risk to victims
Crime represented as a series of events
Media overplay extraordinary crimes
Dramatic Fallacy
Soothill & Walby: the Balaclava Rapist / exaggeration of criminal acts
New Values and Coverage
Mediation of Crime / Crime as a social construct
Selection / Organisation /Focus
Task - students read Sky News article covering the mugging of Sajid Javid and analyse the use of langauge, exaggeration of crime, idelogical underpinning of this media report
(the entire article is broken down in the PowerPoint (see screenshots for examples)
News Values
Fictional Representations of Crime:
Surette [1998] – Fictional representations of crime, criminals and victims are the opposite of the official statistics.
Immitaiton
Arousal
Desensitisation
Transmission of Knowledge
Stimulating Desire
PROTRAYING THE POLICE AS INCOMPETENT or CORRUPT
BY GLAMOURISING OFFENDING
Evaluation of Fictional Representations of Crime
Reading task - students read extract from the ‘Myth of Media Violence’ study and compare the findings to what we have covered in the lesson
FEAR OF CRIME:
Distortion of crime in the media
RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND CRIME
Left Realist view
Cultural Criminology
Cultural Criminology with examples
Global Cyber Crime
The PowerPoint has a short ‘Moral Panics’ lesson attached to it. The slides are not to the same standard as the content listed above and have been included free of charge. I have covered Moral Panics in a more depth and with better resources in a previous Crimes and Deviance lesson pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-paper-3-conflict-theories-of-crime-and-deviance-12790478
Tasks are included throughout the lesson and student knowledge is tested throughout the session.
The student booklet is to be filled in and completed during the lesson.
This Powerpoint introduces students to EDUCATION.
Included: PC and MAC formatted lesson, booklet/handout. Link to documentary
This lesson will contextualise the study of education through the following tasks/areas:
Student experiences of education tasks - students discuss and share their experiences
Education and the four areas of study
Class differences
Role of education
Why some pupils achieve more than others
Role of education and its role in society
The student experience in school
Impact of Government policy
Cultural Capital
Cultural Deprivation
Plenary/conslidation task: David Harewood’s Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minster documentary - note taking and discussion tasks
The lesson is 23 slides long.