This worksheet covers Alternative families on families and households including same sex families, one person households, Living Apart Together (LATs), reconstituted families and lone parent families.

This worksheet covers the arguments for and against the question of whether the nuclear family is universal. It includes Murdock, New Right, The Nayar, same sex families, lone parent families and communes and religious beliefs.

This worksheet covers the darker side of the family which refers to domestic and child abuse. It includes statistics on both areas and explanations from Radical and Marxist Feminists as well the materialist perspective.

This worksheet covers the Personal Life Perspective (PLP) on families and households including Nordquvist and Smart.

This worksheet covers the different types of questionnaires in Sociology for the research methods topic, including open and closed questions

This worksheet covers family policy passed by various past and previous governments and the impact this had on families and households in the UK

This worksheet includes key definition for families vs households, the types of marriages and types of families that students should be aware of on the A Level Sociology course

This worksheet covers the reasons why there has been a decrease in birth rate and decrease in family size in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the arguments in favour and against the view that the family has lost its function including functionalist perspectives like Parsons, Fletcher and Murdock as well as Ross, Litwak, Marxist and feminist perspectives.

This worksheet covers the factors influencing sociologist when selecting research methods including practical, ethical and theoretical issues.

This worksheet covers the types of observations in sociology including participant and non participant and overt and covert observations

This is a worksheet and revision notes covering the how sociologists choose topics. It covers primary and secondary data, qualitative and quantitative methods as well as triangulation

Worksheet / notes summarising the gender differences in attainment or achievement and specifically why boys underachieve with external and internal explanations

Worksheet / notes summarising the New Right perspective on the sociology of education

This worksheet covers the explanations put forward by sociologists to explain the role of the media in the social construction and promotion of crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It begins by explain why the media can be a problem and how they can distort our view of crime. Later, representations of crime is explored through agenda setting and newsworthiness, before looking into theories put forward by Greer on media distortion and exaggeration of crime, Cohen on deviancy amplification and Hall on policing the crisis. Cybercrimes are also explored. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers the explanations put forward by feminists and other sociologists to explain gender patterns in crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It begins by exploring gender patterns for criminalisation, victimisation and representation in the criminal justice system. This is followed by explanations of low female criminality including: chivalry thesis and bias and double standards in the criminal justice system. Later causes of female crime is explored including: physiological explanations, Functionalism’s sex role theory, Heidensohn on patriarchal control, Carlen on class and gender deals and Messerschmidt on masculinity. Overall detailed evaluation is also provided of each perspective. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers the explanations put forward by sociologists to explain ethnic patterns in crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes: racism within the criminal justice system, Left Realist explanations, Gilroy on the myth of black criminality, Hall on policing the crisis and also explores theories by Bowling and Philips as well as Alexander to explore Asian criminality. Overall detailed evaluation is also provided of each perspective. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers the explanations put forward by sociologists to explain social class differences in crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes empty boxes for students to apply their knowledge from Marxism, subcultural theories, labelling theory and left realism. Students are encouraged to use and evaluate these explanations using their knowledge of these theories by applying it to class. This gets them to develop their understanding of the subject, application skills and synoptic links. It also includes Murray’s theory on the underclass and dependency culture leading to crime. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers both Strain and Subcultural theories of crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes: Merton’s Strain theory, Cohen on Status Frustration and Reaction Formation, Cloward and Ohlin’s Illegitimate Opportunity Structures and Matza’s Delinquency and Drift theory. Overall evaluation of Strain and Subcultural theories is also included. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers the Interactionist theory on society for A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Mead, Bulmer and phenomenology as well as overall assumptions and applications for their perspective. Overall evaluation is also included. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.