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• Cultural Capital quiz: Fun quiz for introducing the idea of cultural capital
• Hidden Curriculum article: Useful article for promote discussion of the hidden curriculum is edcuation.
• sociology key words: Key words for GCSE Sociology: family, education and work
• OCR - The Family: Model exam answer
• You are the magistrate: Fun activity for GCSE students studying crime and deviance but can also be used to get A2 students talking!
• Different types of education: A fun activity to get students exploring different types of school designed for GCSE students but easily adaptable for AS. Will need to collect some school prospectuses or an book ICT room
• GCSE Sociology: Defining the Family: Worksheet on the different types of family
• GCSE Sociology: Group Work on Marriage: Good for discussion (especially higher tier candidates)
• GCSE Sociology: Social Change Summary Table: Useful for the topic on studying society.
• Ideas for starters: Useful for AfL and engaging students
• GCSE Sociology: Social Control Activity: Activity used to get students thinking about social control, sanctions, rules, norms etc
• Handout - Introduction to Sociological perspectives / Theories: A basic introduction sheet (1page) on sociological perspectives/theories.Designed to help students understand that theories offer different answers to the same questions.
• OCR AS Religion Revision Notes: Mainly for legacy spec, but can be adapted.
• OCR AS Family Revision Notes: Mainly for legacy spec but can be adated
• OCR AS Youth and Culture Revision Notes: For legacy spec but can be adated
• OCR A2 Inequality and Difference Revision Notes: For legacy spec but please feel free to adapt
• OCR A2 Inequality and Difference Revision in Diagrams: Revision in diagrams - same stuff, different layout
• AQA AS Families and Household Functionalist Theories: A study guide for functionalist theories of the family
• AQA AS Families and Households Marxist Theories: A study guide for delivering Marxist theories
• AQA AS Families and Households CHanging Patterms of Family LIfe: A study guide for this
• Turn and Think Board: A board game to aid understanding and check learning. See 'ideas' for instructions
• Turn and Think Cards: Role cards for Turn and Thing game
• gcse ethnicity and crime: Text from powerpoint.Basic gcse intro to topic.Handout will stand alone
• A/S intro to feminism: Intro to feminism handout to go with ppoint.
• A/S wjec: identity from 5 key perspectives
• gcse nation state: handout for ppoint.Basic notes
• A2 sub cultural theories of crime: Handout for ppoint .Will stand alone description and evaluation of the subcultural theories of crime
• WJEC SOC 1 introductory sow: An unfinished scheme of work (well pretty much full lesson plans).  L1-13 are fully complete and I am working on others.  As I am not a sociologist, and this is the first time i am teaching
• EOC Research - Dads and their babies: A good resource for teaching gender identities/femininities/masculinities, etc.
• Marxism Vs Neo-Marxism: A worksheet where students can compare and contrast Marxist and Neo-Marxist views. I used it for the media, but can be used in many parts of the course
• WJEC SOC 1 finished sow: Not perfect - but it does now have ideas for the whole unit, about 24 lessons and 11 more than the unfinished scheme i posted. Any ideas of improvement gratefully accepted - I've relied heavily on NG
• The study of Society Sow: About 14-18 lessons - depends on how accurate my expected timings might be.  Focusses on the second part of WJEC SOC 1 and the different reseacrh methods used.  Utilises You Tube clips, and
• Functionalist and Marxist Theories of Religion Knowledge Check Worksheet: Useful as a re-cap or as a revision aid.
• AQA AS level assessment rubric: Assessment Objectives divided into grade descriptions for As level.
• Year 13 General markscheme: the AQA general marksheme for teachers.
• Feral Children- Worksheet for "Mindshock" Prog: A selection of questions for students to answer whilst watching the  Channel 4 "Mindshock" documentary about Feral Children.
• AQA SCLY 1 Wealth, Welfare and Poverty: Not quite finished version of an attempt to fit it all in one study guide.
• AQA Global Development Unit 1 Defnitions etc: A study guide for Global development
• AQA Global Development Unit 2 Modernisation Theories: A study guide
• AQA Families and Households anagrams: Sheets with anagrams on, 2nd page has the answers for teachers. Useful for a starter, end of term etc.
• AQA Familes and Households pictionary: Words/phrases. Need printing out onto card, laminating and cutting into individual phrases. Dividing class into teams, each one takes it in turn to take a word (unseen by others) and draw on the board
• Sociology Glossary: Glossary across GCSE & A-level
• Families and Households Revision Wordsearch: Designed for AS AQA spec
• A2 AQA NEW SECTS AND CULTS: AN EXTENSIVE PLAN FOR THE  Evaluate the view that new cults and sects are replacing traditional religion as the means for experiencing and expressing religious belief in the world today
• A2 AQA EXTENSIVE PLAN: An extensive plan - The main function of religion in society is to dull the pain of oppression
• positivism and interpretivism:  A very brief overview of each perspective
• Life Chances Handout: Very shocking lifechances handout, should wake a sleepy class up
• Starter/plenary for New Media: The person with the question with (start) on it reads the question, the rest of the class need to read their answers I the one who thinks they have the right answer reads it out - if correct they then
• Starter/plenary new media: Here is the Loop questions with the answers - I find it easier to have these in my hand while doing this exercise as sometimes I get confused!
• Model essay for G&T GCSE Sociology AQA: An example of an old spec model essay example... To what extent... are the poor to blame for being in poverty
• A-Z of sociologists: A list of Sociologists - A-z but I do this at the end of a topic - get the students to write A-Z and the student who puts the most sociological terminology and theorists in - wins a prize
• key studies education: study and topic and theorist- provide studies with a blank version (only topics listed)
• Material deprevation (closed exercise) -completed: Social Class & Education
• stats on ineqality bbc report: information on the widening rich poor gap and childhood poverty
• Social class and inequality: Handout for powerpoint.basic introduction put together with information from Langley Pilkinton and Richardson Sociology in focus ocr a2
• AQA Unit 2 Education & Methods - check your progress document: This is a document for the front of their files - for ease of checking notes and tracking assignments. feedback and improvement suggestions gratefully received.
• GCSE Marking annotations and assessment rubric: I use it to help students self and peer assess 12 mark answers.
• Education Policies (Colour Coded): Policies from across the different governments colour coded. If printed students have to work it out themselves 
• Year 12 Theory test: Basic set of questions to test Lower 6th - they can self mark
• Revision guide OCR legacy: This is a revision guide for the legacy OCR exam.  It has been written based on the Blundell textbook.
• A2 Unit 3 - Religion - Age: 'fill in the blanks' worksheet for influence of age
• A2 Unit 3 - Religion - Ethnicity: Card sort for influence of ethnicity
• Applying the perspectivess: Set of statements (about religion), pupils have to 1) rank the 'interest' the perspectives would have in the statement, and 2) explain what the top 2 ranked perspectives would say about the statement.
• Ethical consideration dominoes: What it says on the tin.  Used for GCSE AQA
• GCSE AQA Ethics - 'acceptable/not?': Set of situations, first presented on slide & students must vote whether it was acceptable or not, and say why.  This gives them the key words & 'strict' answers to ethical questions
• GCSE AQA Sampling methods dominoes: image & example
• AQA GCSE Stratified & quota sampling, worksheet: Not a great worksheet but an attempt to get students to see the difference between quota & stratified sampling (the book is not at all clear on this).
• AQA GCSE Sampling - methods, pros, cons & examples: AQA GCSE Sampling - methods, pros, cons & examples Simple worksheet with each sampling method illustrated alongside a pro/con & example
• assessment for learning booklet: This is an asssessment for learning booklet that I adapted from a Psychology one I got from psychology exchange
• cultural diversity and multiculturalism: Information on definitions of both and a student activity at the bottom
• Informal Education for GCSE: Handout to accompany PowerPoint uploaded previously. Aimed at GCSE
• essay plan for question on media and identity dev for wjec: wjec media and identity dev mainly youth identity and a nod to consumerism
• AQA WPW glossary: definitions and measures poverty wealth and income: The file I used to make the Quizbusters game. Can be used for revisoin list; can be tasnferred to cards for sorting tasks; dominoes etc. This one is: definitions and measures poverty wealth and incom
• AQA WPW glossary: perspectives/explanations of poverty: The file I used to make the Quizbusters game. Can be used for revision list; can be transferred to cards for sorting tasks; dominoes etc.This one is: Perspectives: explanations of the existence and pe
• AQA SCLY1 Wealth, Poverty and Welfare - policies and provsion: The file I used to make the Quizbusters game. Can be used for revision list; can be transferred to cards for sorting tasks; dominoes etc.This one is: AQA SCLY1 Wealth, Poverty and Welfare - policies p
• AQA AS Sociology WPW: social groups & distribution of poverty: The file I used to make the Quizbusters game. Can be used for revision list; can be transferred to cards for sorting tasks; dominoes etc.This one is: AQA SCLY1 Wealth, Poverty and Welfare - distributi
• AQA AS WPW: 2.3 worksheet Wealth Concepts.doc:  The title is self-explanatory; the material is for teaching AQA AS Wealth Poverty and Welfare, based on Tony Lawson’s excellent book Available at: http://www.sociology.org.uk/as4aqa_2nd_in
• AQA AS WPW: 2.4 the income parade.doc:  An extract from an OU source on the 'income parade' - a means of illustrating the pattern of income inequality in the UK The whole source is available via the 'Open Learn' project.
• GCSE Sociology Extra reading and studies: A Word document with details of books, movies and TV series that can be used for students to extend learning. Thanks to all suggestions given on the disussion board; they have been very useful.
• Crime and Deviance workbook: This isnt my work, i have trawled lots of sites to pick up Crime and Deviance resources and this is one of them that was compiled by another kind teacher
• Crime and Deviance Policing the Crisis worksheet: Crime and Deviance social control issues and ethnicity
• Crime and Deviance Intro to Deviance Workbook: Suitable for OCR AQA really good , from sociology.org.uk
• Crime and Deviance Labelling worksheet: Labelling worksheet from sociology,org.uk
• Crime and Deviance Essays analysed: Great for revision
• Crime and Deviance Activity sheets: Works with Haralambos Themes and Perspectives
• Crime and Deviance previous exam questions: I know the spec has changed, but these are still useful if you pick and choose whats relevant for your current spec
• Crime and Deviance Revision Acitivity: Theory of crime revision OCR
• Crime and Deviance Globalisation and Crime Activity: Sample pages with activities AQA some may be suitable for OCR
• Crime and Deviance Victimology activity: Great activity sheet
• Crime and Deviance Unreliable Statistics worksheet: OCR
• Crime and Deviance Theories of Crime sorting activity: OCR
• Crime and Deviance Key Concepts Activity: OCR
• Crime and Deviance Delinquency Workbook: This may be more suitable for Youth and Crime but it has some areas that are good for Crime and Deviance
• list of sociologists AQA Beliefs: Revision
• list of sociologists AQA Education: revision
• correct sociologists beliefs AQA!: revision
• Revision - Researchers linked to theorists in education- OCR: My class liked this resources, it consolidates in a table with the researchers names linked to the topics, e.g. Marxism - Resistance - Hall and Jefferson - they need have to fill in the findings. I us
• Example 12 mark GCSE AQA A responses: Set of responses for pupils to mark & get an idea of what they need for each level.
• Beliefs Introduction Project (Year 12s Summer term): Activity for Year 12s when they come back for those last weeks of this school year
• State Crime Year 12 summer term project: A short project for Year 12s to introduce them to State crime at a time of year when attendance is regularly low.
• GCSE Family and Social Policy: Handout that was referred to in PP
• AQA SCLY3 33 mark markscheme: Student feedback sheet / markscheme for AQA SCLY3 with a serious of suggestions for improvement on the reverse
• AQA SCLY3 religion essay questions: pretty much all the SCLY3 and SCY4 religion essay questions since jan 2002
• AQA SCLY3 religion short questions: Pretty much all the short questions from SCLY3 and SCY4 since 2002. Include the old 8 mark and 12 mark questions and the new 9 and 18 mark questions
• methods in context: 9 mark answer to methods in context
• essay on marxism: a2 essayon marxism
• methodsincontextas: methodsincontextexercise on experi,emts and labelling: how to improve
• how to complete essay at AS for methods: Guidelines on how to complete essay comparing Positivism and Interpretivism
• essay titles family and households: List of possible as family and Household essay titles
• Sociological theory debate: Grid for the teory powerpoint
• Instructions for the debate: A how to debate guide for the theory lesson
• Theories on Official Statistics Crime and Deviance: My class are finding it hard to get their heads round the different views on official statistics, I have made this summary sheet to hopefully make it easier to understand. For OCR.
• GCSE crime: Questions to accompany the movie Gran Torino, (Word Doc). Aimed at GCSE level.
• Gender roles at GCSE: Questions on gender roles related to the Movie 'Bend it Like Beckham' (Word Doc)
• media types activity: links with key developments in ownership and control powerpoint
• GCSE Family and divorce: Ranking activity on why divorce has increased. Goes with PowerPoint.
• GCSE Family and Divorce: Factors for increase in divorce. Statements to go with PowerPoint.
• a2 Beliefs in Society: Religious Organisations True or False: Straightforward True False quiz to check students understanding. If the statement is false they correct it with the right answer.
• AQA AS Education Revision Notes: Revision notes
• scheme of work crime wjec unit 4: this took me ages and was actually useful.(i dont usually look at them much after they're done.I got the format from Janis griffiths chief examiner at wjec.So thanks janis.Thought it might be helpful
• scheme of work for methods A/S wjec but qite generic: A fairly detailed scheme of work for methods it  is for wjec but is quite generic i think.I got the  very useful format  from Janis griffiths chief examiner at wjec.So thanks janis.
• Scheme of work theory and methods A level wjec but quite generic: Scheme of work for second year theory and methods.I spend a lot of time on methods in yr 1 so a lot of this is recap style lessons and students developing detailed essay plans/mindmaps for methods que
• BELIEFS IN SOCIETY SOW: BELIEFS IN SOCIETY SOW
• GCSE Scheme of work AQA Unit 1: Scheme of work for Studying Society based on Wilson and Kidd textbook.
• GCSE Scheme of work AQA Unit 2: Scheme of work for Families unit based on Wilson and Kidd.
• GCSE Scheme of work AQA Unit 3: Scheme of work for Education unit based on Wilson and Kidd.
• Video Worksheet for Mark Steel lecture on Marx: Useful 'fill in the gaps sheet' to be used during or after the viewing of the Mark Steel lecture on Karl Marx, which is located on YouTube.
• Familes and households Taboo: Based on the board game Taboo. Students work in groups of four, with one person having to describe the key word to their team mate without using the actual or banned word. Works well for a starter or
• Health definition key terms: I used this as a plenary for the key terms (definitions of health), nice and basic but it gives the students the key terms for future revision.
• AS Family and Households: Diagram of Functionalism: Useful as a summary of Functionalism and Families.
• Families and Households - Specification and Content: I've written down the actual content that the students need to know for each bullet point in the Spec along with some key questions at the bottom.  I find the students quite like having this guid
• Explanations for Crime Knowledge Check Worksheet: A worksheet with questions for students to answer looking at explanations of crime.
• Non-Sociological Explanations for Crime and Deviance: A information sheet for students with studies of non-sociological explanations for crime and deviance.
• Crime and The Media: An information sheet for pupils looking at crime and the media. Has Bandura's study in it.
• Positivism, Durkheim and Suicide: Worksheet about positivism, Durkheim and suicide.
• Subcultural Explanations for Deviance Theory Wheel: Worksheet looking at Cloward and Ohlin, Miller and Cohen.
• Interpretivist Approach to Suicide: Worksheet looking at interpretivist approach to suicide.
• Crime and Deviance Labelling Theory: Information sheet for students with studies looking at the labelling theory.
• Theories of Religion Worksheet - Functionalism and Marxism: Functionalism and Marxism worksheet - theories of religion.
• Theories of Religion - Feminism and Postmodernism: Worksheet on Fminist and Postmodernist theories of religion.
• The Nature and Role of the Family - Functionalism: Goes with PPT on functionalism and the family. Lesson 1.
• Starter and Plenary for Lesson 1 - Functionalism and The Family: V. simple worksheet - sorry!
• Policy Pub quiz: This is a fun quiz for students at the end of teaching policy. I have included the questions that I ask but these can easily be changed!
• Belief in Society - Board Game: This a 'Religiopoly' a game I designed based on the Monopoly concept to test students understanding of SCLY3. Mainly covers sects, cults, NRMS, but also includes some key concepts - monotheistic, poly
• Gang Leader for A Day: Good for Crime and Deviance with methods looking at problems associated with participant observation.
• AQA word document: Useful for testing knowledge and understanding of theories of religion.  class test
• Conjugal Roles Crossword: Good for revising conjugal roles at the beginning or end of a lesson.
• AQA AS Sociology Course Handbook: A handbook to explain the AQA course to AS students, what is expected of them , where Sociology can take them. Some pages have been found in other people's handbooks and adapted. The Leraning Contract
• Scheme of work/lesson plans for inequality wjec: Scheme of work/lesson plans for inequality it is fairly generic although for wjec.Its for 50 hours of teaching and has taken me ages to do so i hope its useful to someone.Again got the format from Jan
• question sheet for blockbusters game on methods: question sheet for blockbuster game on methods
• handout on the observation method: description and bulletpoint evaluation of the observation method .looking seperately at participant observation overt participant observation covert.Non participant observation overt and non participa
• AS AQA example exam answer Examining Functions of the Family: AQA exam board. Module:  SCLY 1
• poverty in the uk GCSE AQA: A worksheet with recent facts about poverty and pictures to match up
• AS Education And Methods Past paper Questions: Does exactly what it says on the tin - is a collection of the 4 past papers (MIC, Methods questions) plus some of the past paper questions.  
• oficial statistics: generic handout official statistics description and advantages/disadvantages
• sociology and sociol policy: Handout looking at issues surounding social policy and the role sociology plays in guiding it.based on some information from a ppoint by Bob Messer my  predecessor at the school.   
• matching task for methods and studies: A handout giving instructuions and resources to cut out for a matching task . first the students have to find the methodology used for a number of studies and then have to match features with methods
• guide to essay on changing family patterns: Guide to as essay on childrearing and childrearing from webb and trobe book (textbook)
• Beliefs,Ideology and Knowledge: Simple True/False quiz where all the answers are true!
• Research Methods Crossword (SCLY 2): A crossword of some of the key term / research methods the students need to know for SCLY 2. Could also be used in SCLY 4 to recap the As work.  
• Postmodernity & the family cardsort - who said it: Postmodernity & the family cardsort - who said it AQA AS I just gave them the 3rd column to organise (using the textbook) and then the rest of the grid (not cut up) to stick the 3rd column next
• Word search for G671 studies: A word search with some studies needed for OCR culture and identity. I have included Jagger as it is on the Jan 2011 pre release.
• AQA GCSE family dominoes whole group: the idea is each person has a laminated domino which has a question and an answer but they don't match. it can be used to revise key teaching points or keywords.
• AQA family types match up: match the family type to the correct definintion.
• Changing roles in the family walking questionnaire: a starter where you get students to walk around and discuss the different statements about the family with each other.
• What is a family -:  a series of 8 definitions culled from various sources - i use it for AQA SCLY !
• A2 Theory - Interactionist (33mark) essay: A2 Thoery question - Assess the usefulness of interactionist approaches to the study of society.
• Life Course Analysis worksheet: Used when talking about postmodernity and in particular the work of Tamara Hareven
• Essay example - Families and Households: An essay I wrote to be used as an example for marking - it is up to you what grade you would give it, personally I would mark it as a C. The question is Assess the view that the nuclear family is no
• Belief and Society SAQ: Here is a list of the example SAQ 9 and 19 markers on belief and society 
• SCLY2 Marxist perspectives of education Q&A grid: Use in conjunction with the Powerpoint for the activity at the end.
• GCSE possible family question: A summary of possible questions based on AQA books+specimen and past paper
• GCSE possible education questions: Summary of possible Education question based on AQA books+specimen and past paper
• Family and Social Policy Model Answer Essay Question: What is thought was a top band answer for this social policy essay.
• Why do people join sects and cults activity?: A cut and paste activity for the above.
• extension activity for gender and political participation: This excercise is designed to encourage independent thinking and extension work.
• AQA A2 SCLY4 Crime & Research Methods Workbook: A work book of 18 tasks that can be given as a whole or split into smaller lesson activities, all of which link crime and deviance with research methods. Some material has been taken from the Nelson T
• Post Modern view revision sheet: A revision grid of key points of Post modern theory.
• Sampling Worksheet: Using the content of the lesson, students to fill boxes to demonstrate understanding of sampling methods.   Generally suited to those students who learn through writing (as i do).   DS
• Londitudinal and Case Study Summary: A simple set of summary notes for students, including description of methods and appropriate strengths and weaknesses associated with the methods.   I usually print these on A5 so as to sa
• Anne Frank (Secondary - Historical): Additional Resources to compliment the PPT on Secondary - Documents   DS
• Secondary Data (Summary 1/2): Another one of my Summary Sheets, this one is the first half of secondary data including a description and evaluation of secondary data.   DS
• Secondary Data (Summary 2/2): The final summary sheet for secondary data.   DS
• AQA Exam Exempla - Education and Methods: Some really brief exam questions usually used as a HW task for students.   It's important i always find to let students know that they need to continually apply their research methods knowledge
• AQA AS January 2011 Unit 1 Exam: Culture & Identity Questions Family & Household Questions & Sources
• Childhood quiz: quiz on childhood
• Intro to Marxism: A quick intro to the ideas of Marxism where the classroom becomes a chair making factory.  Maths needs to be worked out depepnding on how many students in class.
• A2 AQA Power: Research for homework on pressure groups and social background of the cabinet to investigate Elite Theory.
• A2 AQA Sociology: What is power - Lukes, Foucalt and Weber. Match the quote.
• A2 AQA Power: What is power? Weber, Lukes and Foucault, who said it matching exercise - answers
• Social inequality quiz questions: This is the Social inequality quiz questions for the social class power point. 
• PERVERT Template: I use this for Unit 2 & Unit 4 Methods section.  We PERVERT each method after advice from a Keith trobe seminar - kids now find this section really easy.  Once this is mastered they
• Model Answer - Educational Reform: He's a model answer that I give my students as a marking exercise to identify interpretation/links to the question
• General election turnout: AQA GCSE Sociology of Power - Homework activity on General Election turnout
• Volunteering: AQA GCSE Sociology of Power - Homework activity on volunteering.
• GCSE AQA worksheet Agents of Social Control: Worksheet for students to examples of social control, examples of going against these, and how effective each is seen to be.
• Moral Panics and Folk Devils.: A table with some recent examples of Moral Panics with space for students to add a few of their own - after some discussion/research.
• mock exam youth.With outlines of what to cover in the answer: 4 questions in a mock exam format for wjec youth.2 model answers for the small mark questions and then an outline of what could go into the higher marking questions.
• Green Crime Worksheet: Handout to go with green crime powerpoint, made using trobe and webb textbook
• Case study sheets for green crime: Photocopied 2 back to back for students to complete
• Pupil Subculture articulate cards:   •RULES: –Pick out one card at random –You must describe to the whole class without saying •What it rhymes with •What letter it begins with •What it sound
• Labelling Theory Activity: Some scenarios to give students an understanding of the basics of labelling theory.  
• AS AQA Compare and Contrast of perpsectives: I used this as an activity after teaching three perspectives on the family.  I have adapted it and used it with other modules at both AS and A2.
• GCSE Research Methods: Match the Term with correct definition.  A great revision tool for GCSE students (maybe even some AS students!)
• GCSE Research Methods: Revision worksheet on Research methods
• GCSE Education: Revision worksheet including cloze passage and match the term with the correct definition.
• GCSE OCR Unit 1 - Socialisation: A model answer to a 12 mark question on Peer group as an agent of socialisation.
• Sociology Noughts & Crosses: Play Sociology Noughts & Crosses and revise at the same time! 
• Crime & Deviance: Realism Revision Activity: A short Venn Diagram revision activity. Students need to identify whether the points at the bottom of the diagram should be placed in the circle for Right Realism or Left Realism or in overlapping spa
• Realism Activity: Venn Diagram revising Realism approaches to Crime
• GCSE scheme of work AQA Media: A scheme of work for GCSE media unit.
• essay writing skills: a guide to halp students raise their game. Considers structure, paragraph style, introductions, supporting arguments etc
• choice of research methods: factors that influence choice of methods, PET factors, theoretical contrast chart
• Participant Observation Evaluation Chart: A summary of whatr PO is and key advantages and disadvantages. Part of a series of simple to use single page document. ideal for AS and also for linking to deviance at A2. This is a poublisher file.
• Statistics and Education Attainment in UK AQA AS: Activity to give you some time out - and to please OFSTEDs 'independent learner' criteria. Pack includes loads of stats for pupils to work through (in addition to anything extra they may find on inter
• Theories of youth culture: Theories of youth culture .An overview of some of the key points each perspective offers in understanding youth culture.
• gender and crime - mix and match: simple exercise to follow studying explanations. to develop conceptual awareness and distinguish between ideas. Students match the numbers to each theory. Variation could be as a card sort.
• Model Answer - Education, interviews gender and subject choice: A model answer I mark with my students on interviews and subject choice.
• Poverty Statistics: Accompanies PP on experiences of poverty
• The Cycle of Poverty: Activity regarding the cycle of poverty
• GCSE - Explaining Poverty: Sociological explanations of poverty card sort
• ethnicty and crime worksheet/study guide: a set of exercises to enable students to investigate ethnicity and deviance independently. Use in conjunction with core textbooks (and our earlier handouts on explanations of deviance). Use to encoura
• Ethnicity and Crime - Essay planning card sort: Here are a series of cards with studies, concepts etc on relating to ethnicty and crime debate. This activity involves serendipity and encouraging students to connect ideas/points together. Students
• AQA Family Unit 1 SOW: This is the SOW for family unit
• Family AQA Unit 1 Student SOW/checklist: This is a student sow that can act as afl and a revision aid
• Power Keywords Crossword GCSE Sociology: Does what it says on the tin
• Unit 2 Education AQA SOW: This is a detailed SOW for Unit 2 Education AQA This is education only, I have done a seperate one for methods
• AQA Unit 2 Education student checklist: This is the students sow that is hepful for afl and revision
• AQA Unit 3 Beliefs in Society SOW: This is the beleifs in society scheme for AQA
• AQA Unit 3 Beliefs in Society student checklist: Student friendly checklist for afl and revision Please let me know what you think about these - do you think they are useful?
• WJEC SOW for Unit 1 GCSE Education: This is for GCSE sociology for WJEC, but could be esaily adapted to AQA.
• GCSE WJEC Sociology unit 1 SOW for Education: This is an education SOW that could be easily adapted to AQA
• WJEC Checklist for Unit 1 GCSE Education: This is the students sow for education unit 1 gcse
• WJEC SOW for Unit 1 GCSE Family: This is a sow for GCSE family - can be easily adapted for all exam boards
• WJEC SOW for Unit 1 GCSE Mass Media: This is my SOW for GCSE mass media
• GCSE WJEC Sociology unit 1 Checklist for Mass Media: This is a student friendly sow for mass media - can be given out as a afl or revision aid
• Unit 4 AQA Crime and Deviance Revision Guide: This has been uploaded by another member, who has done some brill work - I have added the theory and methods section and also a section on exam skills and the exam paper layout
• Glossary of Key terms - Agency VS Structure: This is a glossary of key terms for agency vs structure for Theory and Methods A2 Unit 4 AQA I am uploadng a teacher version with most of the key terms explained
• Structure VS Agency glossary teacher answers: These are the answers to the glossary that I have put up
• Consensus and Conflict Approaches A2 Theory and Methods Glossary: This is a glossary for Marxism and Functionalism 
• Postmodernism Glossary for AQA Unit 4 Theory and Methods: This is a glossary for AQA Postmodernism - Unit 4 T&M section I am also uploading the teachers answer one
• Postmodernism Glossary for AQA Unit 4 Theory and Methods Teachers Answers: Teachers answers to the glossary uploaded
• Charles Darwin's census form: For GCSE
• The Census - Queen Victoria: From School census website - Queen Vics census form
• What is the census: from school census website
• WJEC GCSE Unit 1 Exam Guide: This is an aexam guide for GCSE. Includes info on Reserach Methods, Socialisation, Family and Education. This could be used for AQA GCSE.
• Sociology of Suicide: Notes on Sociology of Suicide
• Student Mark Sheet AQA Education 12 marks: This is a student mark sheet for education AQA Unit 2 12 mark question. There is a space to put actions - here I give them a starter activity to complete. For example, if they have not put enough con
• words useful for education: AQA SCLY2, but could be used by other boards. List of words useful on education paper.  Pupils define term and then can use for revision. Useful starter.
• GCSE Unit 2 Revision Guide: This is a revision guide for GCSE sociology Unit 2. It covers crime and deviance, strat and power and politics.
• AS Education Exam Skills and practice essay questions: This looks at practice essay questions and how the exam works. Also has tables for students to fill in.
• Methods in Context Education Table: This is a table showing the studies students can use for methods in context studies
• Education Revision Theory Lower ability card sort: This is the card sort for lower ability students
• Education Revision Theory Higer ability card sort: This is the card sort for higher ability students
• Card sort Education Revision Theory instructions: Instructuions to card sort
• Education AS Theory picture analysis: These pictures can be used as a community of enquiry or to allow students to draw links between different theories and apply them to school situations.
• Family key terms,sociologists and meanings: For GCSE AQA
• A2 Media Key terms card sort: I took the key terms form the Collins text book & created these card sorts.  Could be used for bingo as well, or flash cards for testing each other.
• A2 Unit 4 Theory: Interpretive perspectives - An exercise to practice Exam skills and develop understanding of Micro perspectives.
• A2 AQA Theory: Postmodernism concepts.  Could be used in a class exercise where students must read about their own Postmodern concept and then explain to partner (AFL)
• A2 AQA Theory: Revision exercise - identify the theory of the following statements.
• AS Education Theory Example essay: This is an example essay for education and theory. This is used in conjuction with the education theory revision lesson that I have uploaded on here.
• Article on parental background and life chances: AQA GCSE sociology- social inequality. Article links with intro to life chances PPT.
• Crime and Deviance - Crime Reduction Strategies - consolidation activity: An activity/summary charts to enable students to summarise material on different policies and perspectives on these (& evaluation) in preparation for 21 mark question of asessing crime reduction s
• Crime Reduction Strategies - applied theories card sort: A card sort to be used in conjunction with strategies resource. In one column, students are asked to consider what different theories may think of specific strategies. Students should use these cards
• GCSE revision: Help sheet for the 12 mark GCSE questions with an example answer for students to pick apart. Based on the family section.
• GCSE education revision sheet: A quick activity based revision sheet to help GCSE students revise for the education topic.
• PETS mnemonic sheet: A  revision sheet for evaluating methods ,look after your PETS practical ethical theoretical sensitivity.
• instructions for revision over easter yr 13: just a handout of instructions to help students to get organized over Easter.
• revision planner timetable (very basic): the proforma refered to in previous sheet to help students plan their revision time.i give my students 2 each for over easter and they seem to find the 2 hour slots quite useful.I suggest they fill in
• AQA A2 Religion and Social Change: AQA A2 Religion and Social Change
• AS Health and methods: AQA health and methods module. It's a summary of the different methods and includes positives and negatives of the methods in relation to health.
• Example wealth essays: AQA Wealth an poverty AS. Its basically a list of essays with some space for students to create some essay plans. I use this to help them get used to interpreting questions.
• GCSE Crime key words: GCSE Crime and deviance key words list
• GCSE Media key words: GCSE Media key words list. It also includes a little key words test.
• GCSE social inequality key words: GCSE Social inequality key words list, with a little key words test attached.
• family & households - essay templates for different questions on theoretical perspectives on the family: These are essay templates on the theoretical perspectives on family useful for revision or in general. These questions are based on the AQA examination board for family and household paper.
• ESSAY TEMPLATE - METHODS IN CONTEXT: AQA January 2010 methods in context for education paper - template
• revision template for functionalist and new right perspective on education: revision template for functionalist and new right perspective on education AQA
• ESSAY TEMPLATE AQA METHODS IN CONTEXT7 EDUCATION: AQA - JANUARY 2010 ESSAY TEMPLATE FOR METHODS IN CONTEXT QUESTION
• AQA 20 MARK RESEARCH METHOD QUESTIONS: AQA 20 MARK RESEARCH METHOD QUESTIONS
• ESSAY TEMPLATE FOR EXPERIEMENTS AS A RESEACH METHOD: ESSAY TEMPLATE FOR EXPERIEMENTS AS A RESEACH METHOD AQA SOCIOLOGY
• ESSAY PLAN FOR RM QUESTION - AQA: ESSAY PLAN FOR RM QUESTION - AQA
• AQA sociology - family - demograpghy death rates: AQA sociology -  family - demograpghy death rates
• worksheets on theory and family: functionalist , marxists ,, new right, modernity and post modernity
• family and social policy booklet: social policy and family handbook - aqa
• aqa sociology beliefs in society : religious organisations workbooklet: religious organisations workbooklet= churches m denominations, sects and cults, why ppl join sects , sects as shortlived , life cycle of sects , wallis , strak and brainbridge , new age
• aqa sociology beliefs in scoety new age: comprehension task on new age
• aqa sociology beleifs in society science , idleogy and religion as beleif systems: intro worksheet
• aqa sociology beliefs in society = science and religion as beleif systems: students wacth youyube clip and then fill out grid - creationism
• aqa sociology beleifs in society - science -opem or closed beleif system: science as open or closed beleif system
• aqa sociology beliefs in soceity: essay plans for question on social groups andparticipation in religion and science & idelogy as beleif systems
• Social inequality key words: GCSE social inequality key words with a little key words test sheet. I've uploaded this again as it didn't work the first time!
• Family Diversity Essay plan: OCR Family Diversity revision plan. I'm new to teaching sociology, so I'm not sure how useful these will be to others!
• Family Feminism Essay plan: OCR The Family essay plan.
• Family cohabitation 17 mark answer plan: OCR The Family. Plan for a short (17 mark) answer on cohabitation
• Family ageing short answer plan: OCR The Family. A plan on how to answer a short (17 mark) answer on ageing.
• Demography: quick check questions on demography
• demography: exam questions on demography
• demography: demography - questions
• beliefs in society AQA: essay plan for 3 questions , religious organisation - are they shortlived , social groups and participation in religion , and finally has science replaced religion
• AQA Crime and deviance Taboo game: A student takes a card and tries to describe the key words without using the key word or the taboo words. Great a starter to a revision lesson!
• AQA Crime and deviance Taboo game: I uploaded another taboo game but it was for the world development unit not crime and deviance. This is the correct one!
• AQA Unit 4 Theory and methods revision: A revision activity, enlarge to A3 and students to make brief notes on what each of the sociologists say.
• AQA Crime and Deviance revision quiz: Three rounds including some theory and methods questions.
• AQA Education revision quiz: Three rounds of questions including research methods questions.
• OCR GCSE Revision guide Family: Revision guide
• OCR GCSE Revision guide Crime and Deviance: OCR Revision guide
• Education and methods table: For AQA AS sociology. Useful for linking methods with education, I use it for revision.
• Education key names: For AS AQA. Just a quick one page key name list with a brief description of their theories.
• Education key names: For AS AQA. Just a quick one page key name list with a brief description of their theories.
• Example 12 mark social inequality questions: For AQA GCSE. A list of example questions with some space for students to write down key ideas of what they would include.
• GCSE AQA power revision: Keys terms to revise and examples of questions pupils could be asked on power. 
• GCSE AQA social inequality revision: Key terms and examples of questions pupils could be asked on the subject of social inequality
• GCSE AQA crime & deviance revision: Key terms and examples of questions of questions pupils could be asked on the subject of crime and deviance
• GCSE AQA mass media revision: key terms and examples of questions pupils could be asked on the subject of the mass media
• practical , ethical and theortical considerations in sociological research: AQA SCLY2 Research methods - template for students to makes notes that go under practical , ethical and theoritical consideration sociologists take into account when choosing topic to study , research
• sampling - keywords and types: AQA SCLY2 Sampling definition and types - template
• AQA Research methods: stages of a social survey - template students make notes around
• AQA feminism and the role of education: task instruction for feminism and the role of education
• AQA Research methods: the big quiz
• AQA scly2 revision template: revision template - functionalist , marixt and new right theory on education
• AQA SCLY2 RESEARCH METHODS: macthing keywords to key terms - introduction to research methods , primary.secondary data , quantitative/qualitative etc
• AQA SCLY2 Postmodern theory on education worksheet: worksheet to go with ppt posmodern theory on education -
• AQA research methods: templates for students to write down practical , ethicsl , theoritical pros and cons of experiements , offcial statistics and documents
• AQA Research methods: template for practical ethical and theoritical pros and cons  for experiements , docs , official statistics
• AQA feminism and the role of education: worksheet to go with ppt on feminism and the role of education
• SCLY4 Subcultural Views Revision: A revision activity which requires students to convert the ideas of Merton, Cohen, Cloward & Ohlin and Miller into pictures.
• SCLY2 Methods Quiz: A quiz 'in the round'. You will need to cut the table along the rows, so each student has one (or more) concept with a mismatched definition. The student with the * next to their concept starts by rea
• SCLY2 PERVERTED revision worksheet.: PERVERTED is a useful mnemonic I made for assessing research methods. This file contains a checklist for PERVERTED, an assessment grid for the main research methods, and a revision frame which can be
• SCLY2 Research Characteristics Cards: I used these cards to help students analyse the research characteristics of pupils, teachers, schools and parents. They were asked to make notes on what makes each group easy/difficult to study, and t
• World Development Taboo: Taboo starter- sociologists names
• AQA GCSE exam questions and answers for Crime, Media, and Power: This is a collection of 5 and 12 mark questions for the topics of Crime and Deviance, Mass Media, and Power on the AQA GCSE paper. For the 12 mark questions I have included outlines of arguments for a
• GCSE Sociology - Functionalism and the Family: Worksheet looking at the functions the family provides from a functionalist perspective.
• SCLY2 Research Methods Example Short Answer Exam Questions: AQA SCLY2 Research Methods Exam Questions work sheet 
• SCLY4 - Crime and Deviance Essay Planning Exercise: Some potential essay titles with planning tables to help with revision.  
• Postmodernism Wordsearch: find the words and match with definitions
• Mass media Key term activity: I have laminated these sheets with the key terms on so that as I read out the definition students can circle the correct key term with a dry marker pen - they can then rub it out ready for the next te
• Mass media Key terms with definition: This is the sheet I use to read from so that students can choose from their key term laminated sheet (previously uploaded.  I have also laminated this so that I can markk on it which I have read
• Functionalist Theory - synoptic illustrations for SCLY4: A chart to enable students to revist earlier topics and consider how the ideas of Durkheim, Parsons and Merton are applied in other topics. Useful to encourage to see the recurring themes in topics a
• Tripartite versus Comprehensive Education: Comparative chart for AS Education - outlines aims/content and evaluation of each. Useful for setting the agenda for selection and questions surrounding policy provision and standards.
• Diagnose the suicide: AQA A2 Sociology worksheet on applying Durkehim's theories of suicide. You will need the Theories of Suicide Balloon debate to go with this.
• Key Sociologists for Families: AQA SCLY1: A list of most of the Sociologists that appear in the Trobe text book with a description of what each of them did.
• SCLY2 - Short answer exam style questions: a mixture of research methods and education questions for students to have a go at.  
• OCR Unit 1B Revision Booklet: OCR GCSE Sociology. A revision booklet I created for the Unit 1 part B (Culture, Socialisation and identity). It contains key words, examples and some questions for the students to do.
• Sociology Theories Consolidation - comparing and reinforcing understanding of Marxism and Functionalist theory activity: An active-learning based exercise that enables students to distinguish between different concepts. They will discuss meaning and then match terms to sections of grid. This highlights key terms and mea
• Introduction to Methods GCSE: AQA GCSE Sociology-a good introduction to research methods using Xmas presents as an analogy for Year 10. I wrapped up a Monopoly board and they had to guess what it was by shaking it, guessing weight
• SCLY3 Secularisation Starter/Plenary: A picture mat I use with my A2 students as a starter, to introduce the secularisation debate. Could also be used as a plenary activity or for revision/
• GCSE essay structures, education: A sheet to help students think about how they structure their 12 mark questions. This sheet is based around an education question.
• SCLY4 Conflict Perspectives Revision: Just a pack I put together for an observed revision lesson, which works up from Knowledge & Undertanding questions, via Analysis to Evaluation, and ending in some group essay planning.
• SCLY4 Age and Offending: A worksheet/booklet using Browne et al, which builds up to an essay plan.
• SCLY4 Ethnicity: A workbook covering ethnicity & offending. There's a part II on ethnicity and the CJS, also uploaded.
• SCLY4 Ethnicity & CJS pt II: This goes with my other Ethnicity and Offending workbook, and provides a structure for students to make their own notes on ethnicityand the CJS, using Webb et al.
• AQA Unit 3 key words lists: Key terms and concepts that students need to know for AQA Sociology A level, Unit 3
• Functionalist view of education: discussion of pictures to get pupils thinking about the functions of education
• Divorce model essay: An essay which I get my students to mark. It helps them to get the hang of structuring essays, and of course improving their marks.
• Domestic Violence Facts: Just a single sheet of disturbing facts about domestic violence. I adapted this from something I found online which (typically) I can't find now..
• A2 Revision Notes on Research Methods: As above, stripped down version of material on RM.
• New Right view of education: Test students understanding of New Right
• Functionalist view of the family: to consolidate pupils learning
• Marxist view of education: to consolidate pupils learning
• Functionalism vs Marxist view of family: Good plenary to ensure pupils understand the differences between the two view points
• Marxist view of the family: Gap fill on Marxism
• Family diversity: could be used on family diversity lesson or introduction to the family
• Family diversity: good for intro of family
• Feminist view of the family: pupils can fill in mind map as they are being taught by their expert
• Single parent families: discussion activity
• Domestic labour: handout to supplement powerpoint
• Domestic violence quiz: how much do students really know about domestic violence?
• Domestic labour and gender roles crossword: testing pupils understanding on previous lesson
• Suicide Wordsearch: Wordsearch on suicide, find and fill in key terms and definitions
• article on marriage and cohabitation: use in conjunction with powerpoint
• AQA Beliefs and Society: This is an evidence bank I have devised for my students.  It details the key studies we have examined and presents them in a fairly concise manner.  My students found it helpful so hopefully
• Theories of education matching task: pupils must match New Right, Marxism and Functionalist views of education- pupils will produce 3 groups of matches
• Correspondance theory: to introduce the correspondance theory pupils will compare how school and the workplace are similar- puts theory into action!
• Theories of education test: covers functionalism, marxism and new right
• Theories of education test answers: pupils can swap their answers with their peers, so they can mark them- good AFL!!
• Diploma article: good to get pupils thinking about current vocational education
• Subcultures and education: I got pupils to walk around the room and write down their thoughts on each group of students- see powerpoint for questions pupils had to think about
• Subcultures and education pick and mix: I placed these keywords around the room and i read out the description and pupils had to try and find the correct word to match my description
• In school processes mini test: only a quick 20 min short answer test to test pupils understanding
• In school processes mini text answers: pupils can peer assess each others work
• In school processes matching task: to test pupils memory on the different studies and who did them!!
• National vs hidden curriculum: i got pupils to read pages in the AQA endorsed textbook for homework and then gave this at the beginning of the next lesson to test their reading
• Social policies in education articulate: good game to test pupils understanding
• Post 1997 policies- aim 1: i downloaded a previous handout which i named aim 1, however this is aim 1 and the other handout is aim 4- sorry for the confusion
• post 1997 policies: matching task- have to group each one into the correct aim
• Internal factors and gender differences in achievement: pupils use the orange textbooks (Webb, Westergaard, Trobe and Steel) to independently read and complete the questions
• underachievement of boys in education: article to discuss the issues of boys underachievement
• Boys and achievement in education: plenary to test pupils understanding of the lesson
• Ethnicity and achievement in education: a starter to get pupils applying labelling theory to ethnicity
• Ethnicity and achievement in education: pupils interpet the stats
• Observations and experiments: crossword
• Research methods dominoes: another sheet to follow in separate download
• Research methods dominoes 2: second file of dominoes to go with previous download
• AQA AS Families and Households: This is an evidence bank I have devised for my students.  It details the key studies we have examined and presents them in a fairly concise manner.  My students found it helpful so hopefully
• OCR GCSE Youth revision booklet: A revision booklet I created from the OCR textbook for the section on youth. It's basically summarised and has some questions for students to do.
• GCSE mass media unit 2 - what are the media: mindmap for revising what are the media (publisher file)
• GCSE mass media Unit 2 - uses of the internet: mindmap summarising uses of internet (publisher file)
• GCSE Sociology - Mass media unit 2 - Effects of media: mindmap summarising theories on media effects (publisher file)
• GCSE sociology Mass Media Unit 2 - Technological developments and media: mindmap summarising technological developments on media (publisher file)
• Durkheim has Tourette's: A slightly more entertaining way to introduce/revise Postivism
• AQA A Crime and Devience specification checklist: I give this to the students on the first lesson so they can mark off when we have finished that section, also useful for revision.
• MEDIA perepctives and theories revision cards: A set of visual mnmonics for revising key concepts in AQA SCLY3 Media sociology 
• GCSE sociology crime and deviance mindmap - explanations of crime: mindmap highlighting key explanations of crime and deviance
• A2 Sociology of Religion - Introducing Functionalist Theories of Religion (Activity Booklet): booklet of activities to help introduce functionalist theories of religion and how it contributes to maintaining the status quo/preventing social change
• Functionalism and role of religion FIELD OF WORDS: a field of words activity to help students rcap key concepts adopted by Durkheim,Parsons,Bellah and Malinowski. Students match the key concepts to their definitions. Then using different coloure
• Intro to Sociology: A pack I use over the first week of AS, to introduce students to sociological thinking, and basic terms e.g. norms, roles, socialisation etc. Lots of thought-provoking activities. Would work for GCSE
• SCLY2 Applying Methods to Education: Try applying methods to education, put the topics in a random word generator for added fun, fun, fun.
• What's in a name: intro lesson to get students to know each other then read through Talula does the hula from hawaii
• The Internationale - Billy Bragg: Lyrics from the internationale to pull out the Marxist terminology, Stand up all victims of oppression... Get the students to salute whilst listening, they love it.
• Social Class Identities Workbook: OCR AS please credit James White as they are his hard word.
• Age Identities Workbook OCR AS: OCR AS, please credit James white as they are his hard work
• poor kids: notes on the statistics given in the recent tv documentary Poor kids.
• Exploring Patriarchy - Feminist Sociology: this is the lesson plan to go with following resources. It is a lesson that focuses on introducing patriarchy and developing student awareness through studying a range of visual and text stimulus. The
• introducing patriarchy resources 1: word document of cases to be used to explore nature of patriarchy in society
• Effective writing in sociology - how to illustrate points writing frame: A simple writimg frame to encourage students to define, develop and illustrate points in paragraphs. This model also aims to encourage a focus on range, depth and relevancy.
• AS Sociology; make up a sentence: For unit 1 of AQA specification; Families and Households. Links to perspectives on Families. Students work in groups to make up sentences including the words on list. Sentences have to be sociological
• Essay Planning - Preparing question on Feminist theories on role of religion SCLY3: Activities that help students to consolidate understanding of feminist concerns and how to structure this in an essay. Includes chart for focusing on strands of argument/thinkers and evaluation. Also
• feminism and religion consolidation chart 1: chart to go with activity guide in prepapring for essay on feminist theories of religion
• feminism and religion table 2: simple table template for students to focus on how different theories support/challenge feminism
• Feminism essay planning consolidation task sheet: chart to go with feminism and religion consolidation activity. Hopefully will upload right document this time.
• Useful A -Level Sociology Revision Websites: Excellent links for A-level sociology revision, regardless of exam board. Oraganised and summarised as a useful hand-out for students. Can be used a starting point when researcging for presentations o
• So what is the media?: First Recap sheet after intro to the media
• Functionalism and the Family Worksheet: Cloze activity worksheet linked to functionalist approaches to the family. Ideal as a starter/revision for an AS group. Also contains an answer sheet.
• Subcultures inductive learning task MBFGW: GCSE Sociology - Subcultures (see My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding powerpoint to accompany this resource) Photocopy enough for each group. Cut up the sources. Ask students to look for similarities, so tha
• AQA GCSE Education unit: Work sheets that support the education powerpoint I uploaded this sheet class and life chances
• Education Reseach AQA GCSE: For the Education powerpoint also uplaoded by me
• who are the working class? case study 1: case study to go with activity (taken from article in Independent 'Threatened, Isolated, Under Siege: the UK's working class today' by John Rentoul
• what is happening to the working class Case Study 2: case study to go with activity (taken from article in Independent 'Threatened, Isolated, Under Siege: the UK's working class today' by John Rentoul
• what is happening to the working class? Case Study 3: case study to go with activity (taken from article in Independent 'Threatened, Isolated, Under Siege: the UK's working class today' by John Rentoul
• what is happening to the working class? case study 4: case study to go with activity (taken from article in Independent 'Threatened, Isolated, Under Siege: the UK's working class today' by John Rentoul
• what is happening to the working class? Case Study 5: case study to go with activity (taken from article in Independent 'Threatened, Isolated, Under Siege: the UK's working class today' by John Rentoul
• Family and Feminism: 1950s Home Economics Extract: Extract from a traditional 1950s 'good housekeeping' guide. Excellent resource for introducing the role of women in the family/power relationships and the changing nature of the traditional family.
• Family and Feminism: 1950s Home Economics Extract: Extract from a traditional 1950s 'good housekeeping' guide. Excellent resource for introducing the role of women in the family/power relationships and the changing nature of the traditional family.
• Is this a family or not activity: A variety of images of households and families - students are to decide whether they are a family or not and why - leads into a great discussion of how do we define family and evaluating sociologists
• the Family - demography work booklet: A series of tasks and note-taking for students to complete using the AQA textbook
• Family - reasons for rising divorce rate workbooklet activity: I go through the first few pages as a class and then split the class into groups, allocating 2-3 reasons for rising divorce rates to each group - they then have to present this to the rest of the clas
• Family - marriage, divorce and cohabitation MCQ: A quick quiz to check knowledge and understanding
• Family - marriage, divorce and cohabitation MCQ: A quick quiz to check knowledge and understanding
• Family - marriage, divorce and cohabitation MCQ ANSWERS: answers to go along with the earlier MCQ posted - answers are in bold
• Family - childhood image starter: look at the images and describe what each shows about the different types of childhood experienced - can start a discussion on whether childhood is socially constructed
• GCSE Sociology - Marriage - Arranged Marriage Card Sort: A card sort where pupils sort the factors which decifer whether two individuals are compatible or not for each other.
• Marriage, Cohabitation and Divorce Knowledge Check Worksheet: A revision worksheet surrounding the topic of Marriage, Cohabitation and Divorce.
• The riots: A word document diagram of possible reaosns for August 2011 riots.Useful for introduction to Crime and Deviance or as an opening discussion for Sociology course.
• AQA AS Families and Households: Functionalism: A workbook for pupils focusing on functionalist views of the family
• AQA AS Families and Households: Marxism: A workbook focusing on Marxist views of the family
• AQA AS Families and Households: Feminism: A workbook focusing on Feminist views of the family
• OCR GCSE Family Diversity Revision: A table that can be used for revision or for a matching activity if you choose.
• Mobilise Your Mobile: A short article on how students and teachers can transform their mobile into an educational tool and resource bank.
• Suicide Model Answer: Model answer as use for activity with students.
• Theory of Education: A colour coded matching task, with some accompanying questions to encourage them to think about topical issues such as EMA, followed by a couple of examination questions.
• Symbolic Interactionism: An overview sheet suitable for revision. I put this on our VLE for students to download before the lesson.
• Ethnomethodology Revision Sheet: An overview sheet suitable for revision. I put this on our VLE for students to download before the lesson.
• Phenomenology Revision Sheet: An overview sheet suitable for revision. I put this on our VLE for students to download before the lesson.
• Structuration Theory Revision Sheet: An overview sheet suitable for revision. I put this on our VLE for students to download before the lesson.
• Social Action Theory Revision Sheet: An overview sheet suitable for revision. I put this on our VLE for students to download before the lesson.
• Crime and Deviance - Methods in Context Model Answer: Color coded top band model answer to show students different skill domains on this type of question. Is on covert participant observation and edgework
• GCSE AQA Media Starter on decoding: As a quick starter to introduce the decoding perspective of the media module. Filling in the table gets them to think about whether different people would enjoy watching different programmes. I will g
• Media socialisation sheet: AQA GCSE Mass Media - Media socialisation sheet to go with powerpoint. Teachers should display a range of magazine covers around the room to allow students to compare different messages shown in diffe
• GCSE worksheet on functions of the family: Worksheet for pupils to complete using the Wilson and Kidd textbook
• As skills AQA sheets to support: Sheet sot support AS skills lesson
• AS skills sheet: Another sheet to support skills lesson
• Methods in Context of Education Summary Grid: Overview of Methods, including advantages, disadvantages and example studies applied to education. Drawing on the Trobe et al text book
• AS AQA: Introducing the key sociological perspectives
• AS AQA Research methods: Bad questionnaire example
• Left v Right Realism (SCLY4): I split my class into two political parties (Britannia - right realism and Libertarian - left realism) and told each group to develop a manifesto to explain why crime is on the increase and how they p
• SCLY1 Marxism/Family Essay: An example of an essay response to a 24 mark question assessing the contribution of Marxism to the sociology of the family. There is a box for students to mark and comment on the essay.
• wht is sociology: just a little handout to introduce the subject, can be used alongside the Bingo game.
• sociology bingo: a little game used in conjunction with the handout
• intro to sociology true or false: a little starter activity introducing the subject
• Major Thinkers in Sociology: A handout introducing the 3 major thinkers, Functionalists, Marxist and Interactionist. I am new to this subject so if you find anything that is not accurate please let me know. thanks
• social interactionist theory: A reader with some true and false questions to answer at the end of it (with answers)
• Symbolic interactionist: A story board activity to reinforce the theory using symbolic representation (why not!)
• Capitalism explained: A simple handout taken from a ppt (thanks for sharing)
• sociology as a science: a little cloze activity
• feminist methodology: malstream research cloze activity
• feminist methodology: standpoint epistemology a reader. cut the questions into cards, students can then self assess their learning
• positivism and antipositivism: evaluation exercises to get 'em thinking
• positivism and interactionist debate: a little activity to evaluate the debate
• socialisation and social role: a reader activity followed by some lovely questions to check learning
• socialisation and identity: cloze activity
• socialisation exam questions: some shart answer questions to assess learning and focus on sentence structure
• Essay feedback sheet: i use this for my AS students for CIE, marking may change for other boards.
• CIE sociology spec: A flyer about the alevel. useful for open evenings
• CIE AS overview: a brief overview of what the AS looks like for CIE. not an easy spec to get your head around so if any one can improve on it let me know! will also download checklists by unit
• CIE AS checklist unit 1: includes key words and what needs to be covered on the course for unit 1 CIE
• CIE AS checklist unit 2: a revision checklist includes key words and what needs to be covered on the course
• CIE AS checklist unit 3: Includes key words and what needs to be covered on the course for CIE
• CIE A2 overview: an overview of the units we will be looking at for A2 CIE
• CIE A2 checklist: A checklist including key words and what needs to be covered for units 4, 7 and 9
• single parent families: A worksheet that accompanies the powerpoint
• singletons and same sex families: a worksheet to go with the powerpoint
• breakdown of family including sociologists: a breakdown of the diffrent topics and the sociologists that contributed. AQA
• Types of Feminism Match-Up: Sheet to cut up various statements to match with the three main typrs of feminism. Students are to work out if the definitions belong to Liberal, Marxist or radical theoretical strands.
• Demographics End of Topic Test: Short test on Demographics
• AQA SCLY3 Media protrayal of sexuality: newspaper article from BBC to go with ppt
• Introduction to Marxism Starter: This is a game based on sticklebricks where students play roles of being worker, capitalist and market. It teaches the unfairness of capitalism
• WJEC The Family Changing roles of men and women: I print these cards out on two different colours of paper, at the start of the lesson - (The changing roles of men and women in the family). I ask the students to place one colour set on the white bo
• Family Key Words/Family Types Starter/Revision Exercise: Matching game for key words on family types. I split the class into five groups. Five, nine square grids of definitions are placed on the board. Each group is given a stack of nine key words. They mus
• What gender are the Teletubbies?: I used this as part of my introduction to Sociology lessons.
• Create a Society: I found this on the net somewhere so do not take credit for it! I use this as a taster session when Y11s are deciding on what A levels to pick.
• SOW Unit 4: This is not a detailed SOW just an overview of teaching. I split my week between 3 lessons C&D and 2 lessons on theories. Hope this is useful. I use Trobe text book.
• Key term dominoes: Students have to walk around the classroom to find the definition to their key term - matching all the dominoes. Easy to edit to suit your unit
• AQA media models of audience effects: Article taken from BBC website to be used in commentary on any of the models of audience and the media on "War of the Worlds broadcast by Orson Wells - to be used as a starter or construict activity
• AQA checklist culture and identity based on AQA teacher resource bank: AQA specification for Culture and Identity turned into a checklist for students to aid revision
• OCR whole class task Positivism Vs interpretivism: This is a task i did with the whole class, it got them up and moving which they seemed to enjoy.
• OCR Positivism vs Interpretivism table: I used this resource with an AS group and got them to complete this table alongside me going through the power point.
• AQA AS Culture and Identity scheme of work: SOW Textbook references are to Sociology AS for AQA by Moore Aiken and Chapman and Success in Sociology by Peter Covington
• AS Scheme of work research methods with Health: It is a poor thing but mine own. There are some gaps but you should be able to get the gist of it from the detail included
• AS Research methods checklist based on AQA scheme of work: Developed this from the resources available via AQA, meant to help the students keep track of the unit and the elements they need to know
• AS Research methods for AQA module chacklist: A checklist for all the key terms to give students a running checklist of all of the topics we cover and to aid with revision
• AS checklist for Health based on AQA scheme of work: This is the health checklist - so sorry to have mislabelled the other one
• AS checklist research methods based on AQA scheme of work: This is the research methods checklist based on the AQA scheme of work.
• as Health and researche methods: This is part 3 of the extended project in health and research methods - secondary sources it is the success criteria and proforma against which the project will be assessed
• AQA Health -: AQA Unit 2 Health Part 5 of extende project - To go with the PPT and data about inequalities in health
• AQA GCSE Family Decline in Fertility worksheet: Simple worksheet for students to complete about the delcien in fertility - what are the reasons for it and what are the effects on the family and society
• Booklet - Religious Market Theory - SCLY 3: Simple booklet to go with powerpoint
• Existential Security Theory - SCLY3 Beliefs in Society: Simple booklet to go with powerpoint
• Religious Market Theory fill in the gaps: Fill in the gaps starter activity
• As sociology: example gender and education essay
• Theoretical considerations summary worksheet: I use this to help students understand the basic differences between positivism and interpretivism
• GCSE Research Methods definitions: Word doc - definitions
• GCSE Research Methods: Word doc - 2nd set of definitions
• AQA GCSE Mass Media Revision checklist: Revision checklist for the mass media module (AQA GCSE) Table is based on the wilson & Kidd textbook. Asks student to traffic light how confident they feel about each topic and write down what areas t
• Sociology of Family Key Words: A list of key words for the sociology of the family that pupils need to get definitions for.
• AQA GCSE crime and deviance writing frame: Writing frame for 12 mark question based on peer pressure
• Revision dominoes crime and deviance: quiz to revise key points from the crime and deviance unit, the person who starts should be the person who finishes, students like doing this to a time limit and it is good revision.
• AS aqa Family past paper questions: A selection of past paper questions.
• Blank family and social policy revision table: An A3 revision table to help students organise their class notes.
• Tea room Trade: An overview of study by Humphreys with some ethical considerations
• AS SCLY2 Education - gender and attainment consolidation activity: car sorting exercise with a difference. We actually varied it from the task guidance on the sheet shown. Students separated into in-school/out of school factors and glued onto sheets (yes - subculture
• AS education - gender and attainment: A consolidation chart with factors/studies and evaluation points to help work on gender and attainment essays.
• GCSE Social Experiments worksheet: Worksheet to go with the info sheet. I usually run this as a 'become the expert' activity in groups of 4.
• GCSE Social Experiments info sheet: Four info sheets detailing some examples of social experiments. Each has the same example to start - for the teacher to model - then a different example for them to learn about to teach their peers.
• Keywords wall display: Some keywords and definitions (could be used for A level or GCSE) for an instant wall display!
• Mass Media Model Answer: MODEL ANSWER
• DEFINING MASS MEDIA: A simple list of key words and definitions that could be used as a card sort, quiz etc for revision
• mass media: a worksheet focusing on Time Warner and Take News Corporation to get students to consider the concepts of vertical and horizontal integration
• pluralism and the media: a worksheet to go with powerpoint and handout
• Marism and the media: most of the key words turned into anagrams
• marxism and the media: a fill the gaps exercise to help understand the relationship between infrastructure and superstructure
• what is crime?: a little fun questionnaire to be used as a starter. we are all criminals after all!
• reporting crime: some statistics to look at why crime is not reported
• reporting and recording crime: a worksheet to look at problems of reporting and recording crime, includes True/False exercise and quick 50 word paragraphs
• reporting crime: a self report sample that canbe critically analysed by students after they have had a go filling it in.
• crime statistics: fiddling the crime figures. why oh why? a student worksheet
• crime statistics: how useful are crime surveys? a student worksheet, accompanies the CIE text book
• crime statistics: some statistics to play with to identify who is more likely to be a victim
• middle class crimes: a student worksheet to identify the different types of crimes within corporate, white collar and middle class.(with answers!)
• AS Family Theorists Match Up: Exercise given by teacher; family theorists matching game. Match up the theorists with their theory!
• AQA GCSE Mass Media Scheme of Work: A scheme of work I have written for the Mass Media section of Unit 2 - designed for four part lesson plan, but can be adapted if you teach in a different way
• AS AQA Culture and Identity Scheme of Work: A scheme of work for Culture and Identity Unit 1 on the AQA AS spec. The course didn't run this year in my school so I haven't had a chance to teach it yet, but please feel free to drop me any comment
• Feminism: Carousel Skills Based Lesson: If you are looking for an alternative approach to teaching feminism please find attached resources for a carousel approach based on the accelerated learning cycle. I will upload resources required sep
• Functionist Perspective on the family: A summary table for revision AQA Unit 1
• Marxist perspective on the family: Revision table for AQA Unit 1 Exam
• Feminist perspectives on the family: Summary table for revision AQA unit 1 exam
• Childhood Summary Table: For revision Unit 1 AQA AS
• Demography Revision Summary Table: Includes a key terms table for revising AS AQA Unit 1 exam. There is also Migration on it as some people were caught out last January by that I believe.
• AQA Unit 1 Exam Questions Jan 2009 - June 2011: I have just put all the exam questipons together in on simple document. I find it useful!
• FAMILY REVISION GUIDE: FAMILY REVISION GUIDE - SCLY1 AQA
• Childhood essay plan: Here is a detailed essay plan I use as a WAGOLL.
• Sociology and Social Policy Essay Plan: Detailed essay plan for Theories section of Unit 4. I use Keith Trobes PERC when writing essays, P=Point E=Explain it R=research or theory to back up up C= criticisms. Hope its useful.
• Perspectives and Social Policy Handout: A summary of the views of each perspective about the relationship between sociology and social policy. I use Webb et al text book.
• The Influence of sociology on social policy: This is a handout that summaries the factors that influence whether sociolgy will impact on social policy. Topic 8: Sociological Theory in Webb et al A2 book
• AQA Mass Media Practice Exam Questions: A series of exam questions to help students prepare for the SCLY3 paper
• Cross Cultural Family: These are some examples of cross cultural variations of the family.
• New Media mind map: Mindmap of the tech advances in the media over the last 30years
• A2 AQA Unit 4 practice questions: A list of questions for each section of the AQA unit 4 exam.
• mass media and globalisation: using Joes & Jones text book. this worksheet is designed to enable students to read and selct studies from text and consolidate their writing skills. the worksheet can be referred to and used later
• mass media and globalisation: a worksheet to accompany the powerpoint, includes anagrams of key words
• mass media and globalisation: this worksheet focuses on the differences between media imperialism and cultural imperialism
• mass media the state and politics: the marxist view of the media, the state and politics
• mass media, the state and politics: the pluralist view of media, state and politics
• mass media, the state and politics: a worksheet using Jones & Jones text book, focusing on laws and applying marxist and pluralist views to them
• mass media, the state and politics: a cloze activity looking at the extent of media role in promoting democracy
• mass media, the state and politics: an article looking at china's control of the internet with some questions for students to ponder over
• deimensions of inequality: some short answers which form the structure of an essay. for CIE students and the Barnard textbook
• stratification: multichoice questions and a short answer question using key words
• stratification - theories: marxist, weber and functionalist worksheet focusing on stratification in the form of a table, will come in handy for revision
• social stratification - theories: a powerpoint outlining the main theoretical concepts for stratification
• stratification - theories: 3 separate multi choice papers, one for each theorists,to break up the powerpoint
• measuring social class: a worksheet using Barnard text book. mainly for CIE students
• SCLY3 Global Development Revision: Summary of key global development ideas/concepts...not quite finished but mostly done!
• SCLY2 Bingo on policies: Give each student a 'card', describe a term and get students to mark of as you go, see who wins!
• SCLY2 bingo methods: give each student a 'card', describe a term, students to mark off as you go, see who wins!
• New Media and Political Participation: Analysis of the impact of new media on political protest. Illustrated with reference to Iran, the 'Arab Spring', 'Los Indignados' and 'Occupy Wall Street'