A-Level Sociology AQA - Interactionism & Labelling - Crime and deviance

This is an A-Level Sociology lessson AQA, which focuses on Interactionism and Labelling. Crime and Deviance. Included is two lessons which cover the interactionist perspective. Although two lessons are included, this could be made into one lesson. The lessons included students creating a presentation, however this could be removed and made into one lesson.

Included in Power point 1:

• Theories of education starter activity. Answers included.
• An Introduction to Interactionism - criminal stereotypes, typical offender.
• The social construction of crime.
• Howard Becker - An overview.
• Who gets labelled? - Piliavin and Briar (1964)
• Which groups are likely to be labelled? - Statistics included.
• Presentation task. This encourages students to work in small groups to create a presentation on labelling. The aim is for them to present next lesson. This task can be removed if not appropriate. Instructions of what students should include is on the PP slide.

Included in Power Point 2:

• Education recap starter activity. Students to match the key sociologists to the concept. Answers included.
• Students to complete presentations. (Slide can be removed if not necessary)
• The rest of the lesson focuses on covering key ideas from Cicourel: the negotiation of justice, Topic versus resource, the social construction of crime statistics, the effects of labelling: primary and secondary deviance, deviance amplification spiral, reintegrative shaming. Pupils to fill in the question worksheet whilst teacher talks through the questions and answers. These questions cover the content which students should have included in their presentations.
• Evaluating interactionism and Labelling theory.
• Plenary - 10 mark exam question on the effects of labelling.