AQA GCSE Sociology poverty and inequalityQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology poverty and inequality

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What are life chances? If Britain has food banks, is it a poor country? What is absolute poverty? What is relative poverty? How do we measure poverty? Who will suffer poverty? Are poverty and ethnicity linked? So what if people are poor? Are poverty and gender linked? Are disability and poverty linked? How is the government addressing poverty? Can we explain poverty? How can people get help if they are poor? What is the cycle of deprivation and the poverty trap? What is means testing benefits? What is social exclusion? What is the Marxists approach to poverty?
AQA GCSE Sociology - Private EducationQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology - Private Education

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Starter - cultural differences - insulting gestures in different cultures. What is like in a private school - case study of Sheffield. Why do some parents choose to send their children to independent schools? Why do privately educated students get the best jobs? How can state schools be improved to be more successful? What has the greatest influence on life chances?
AQA GCSE Sociology Gender and CrimeQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology Gender and Crime

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Starter - why is a male nanny thought of as unusual? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using official statistics? Statistics about gender and crime? Why do women commit less crimes (gender socialisation, gender role models, opportunity, views of authority, bedroom culture)? How can we explain women's increasing involvement in crime (independence, inequality, changing attitudes, changing lifestyle, alcohol and drugs, media)? Sociological research into gender and crime inc. research methods and ethical issues. Why do girls join gangs?
AQA Sociology GCSE Inequality and Social ClassQuick View
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AQA Sociology GCSE Inequality and Social Class

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Starting with some resources looking at the Sun and media in the news. Main body of lesson focuses on functionalist views on class with topics including modern day identity, class sub-cultures, the family and inequality, who is middle class, who are the underclass, what is welfare, the functionalist approach to stratification, how is social class measured and the registrar general's class scale.
AQA GCSE Sociology Social MobilityQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology Social Mobility

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Starter - which groups are at risk of social exclusion? What is social mobility? What is the link between education and social mobility? What are the different types of social mobility? How far can people move in society? What is meritocracy? Is Britain a meritocracy? Are there ways to achieve social mobility other than education? What barriers are there to social mobility? What is the government doing to improve social mobility? Is Britain a classless society?
AQA GCSE Sociology Inequality and genderQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology Inequality and gender

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What is ethnicity? how have people tried to address inequality based on ethnicity? How far would sociologists agree that inequality based on ethnicity still exists? What inequalities are there that are based on ethnicity?
AQA GCSE Sociology Inequality and AgeQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology Inequality and Age

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Starter - What lengths will people go to in order to sanction what they believe is not a social norm? How far will people go to express their opinion? Main body of lesson - What is chronological age? What is biological age? How is childhood different today? How is childhood changing? How do sociologists see youth? What constitutes youth in different societies? Is youth lasting longer? How do sociologists study older age? What is ageism? Do adverts criticise ageing? What is the social status of older people?
AQA Sociology InequalityQuick View
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AQA Sociology Inequality

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An introduction to social inequality including key ideas such as social stratification, social inequality, status, Marx and Weber.
AQA GCSE Labelling Theory CrimeQuick View
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AQA GCSE Labelling Theory Crime

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Starter task of key words, Cicourel, What is a typical deviant, Do Black people commit more crime than white people, Are the police racist, Labelling homeless people and drug addicts as criminals, The chivalry effect, Mods and Rockers and media amplification of deviance, Child Criminals, Boyz in the Hood
Education and ClassQuick View
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Education and Class

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What can affect our educational achievements? Hargreaves and teachers labelling students. Self fulfilling prophecy. Delinquent sub-cultures. Cultural capital. Which ethnic groups are most successful in education and which are least successful? Sociological research into education and reasons for differences in achievement. Material Deprivation.
AQA GCSE Sociology - What is a family?Quick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology - What is a family?

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What different family types are there in Britain today? What are they like? What is a household? How does a person's role in a family change over time? How and why have marriages changed in the UK? What is cohabitation?
AQA GCSE Sociology Crime and PovertyQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology Crime and Poverty

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Starter - are comedians deviant or funny? Key words and crossword task. What is social class? Why are there more working class people in prison? What is white collar and corporate crime? Tax avoidance vs working class crime. Crime key words.
AQA GCSE Sociology Crime StatisticsQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology Crime Statistics

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What would it be like if there were no police force? I stand with Ahmed, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown and Freddie Grey all linked to deviancy amplification. Victim Surveys, self report studies, official statistics and other ways of measuring crime including advantages and disadvantages. Why are some crimes not reported or recorded? Repeat and racist victimisation. Workplace crime (white collar and corporate crime). Social construction of official statistics. What are the different sociological views of crime (feminist, Marxist and new right)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of official statistics?
AQA GCSE Sociology Crime and AgeQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology Crime and Age

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What is the seriousness of different types of crime? What is a deviant? What are deviant activities? What is crime? What criminal activities will not be criminal in the future? What is the relationship between crime and age? What are the main sources of crime statistics? What do official statistics show about age and crime? Why are young people more likely to commit crime? Cesare Lombroso and Freud theories on crime.
AQA GCSE Sociology - Feminist and Marxist approaches to the FamilyQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology - Feminist and Marxist approaches to the Family

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What are the Marxist and Feminist approaches to education? Which household chores are male and which are female? Why do women do more in the home? What are joint domestic roles? Why do sociologists research families? What is the future of women in the home? What is primary socialisation? What is gender socialisation? How have gender roles in the home changed since the 1960s?
AQA GCSE Sociology and the purpose of schoolsQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology and the purpose of schools

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What is the role of schools in society? What are the different functions of schools? What is the hidden curriculum? What is the history of education in the UK (detailed list of strategies from the 1800s to present day)? How will education change in the future? Why might parents want to send their child to a particular school? Investigate educational reforms.
AQA GCSE Sociology - relationships between children and parentsQuick View
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AQA GCSE Sociology - relationships between children and parents

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Sociological approaches to families starter. How the census can be used to investigate families. What was the relationship between children and their parents in the 1840s and what is it like today? Tiger mother approach to parenting. Bad parents. What are the rules of parenting? Should children be taught parenting skills at school? How are middle class and working class family relationships different? How is the family changing in the UK in terms of size and features? How do people spend their family time? Should we scrap or cap child benefit?