Introduction to Sociology- Lesson and resources. This bundle contains a PowerPoint lesson and video clips. It is designed to be an introduction to students who have not studied Sociology before and could be used as an intro to GCSE Sociology, Year 9/10 taster courses or A level/VCE Sociology type classes. The lesson contains information on the way Sociology differs from Biology and Psychology, The Sociological Imagination, Norms and Values, Socialisation including the agents of socialisation.
A thorough and comprehensive revision booklet for the education section of the paper 1 exam, which covers all content they need to know. It includes information for students, and 7 activities ranging from crosswords to essay planning. Last year I published booklets which only included the advanced info, so I have updated them this year to include everything! They worked really well last year to make sure that students were revising early on, and I’m sure they will be as succesful this year too.
I will be using this in lessons with students- instructions on how I plan to do this are in the booklet.
May need the latest version of word or you might need to play around with the formatting. I’ve also uploaded as a pdf to avoid any trouble.
I really hope this is useful to you!
Presentation set for the ‘Sociology and Science’ topic of the ‘theory and methods’ unit. Contains activities, all the key knowledge, and assessment.
Booklet included to go along with the PowerPoint with activities and exam focus embedded.
This bundle contains 20 lessons for the ‘Sociology of the Family’ section of the new GCSE Sociology specification.
Whilst it is useful to any teacher of Sociology, it was designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192) taught from September 2017.
It is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive and complete resource: everything a teacher/department need to teach the sociology of families section of the course.
Each lesson comes in a .Zip file, This file contains:
-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activities (.pdf)
-A premium quality, editable, PowerPoint Presentation
-Homework
[-Most of the lessons include a worksheet
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This lesson is designed for AQA AS Sociology and for use with the orange AQA Sociology Book by Napier Press. This lesson is complete with PowerPoint and accompanying resources.
The Complete Media Bundle for A Level Sociology offers a full, engaging, and exam-focused set of resources covering every topic required by the specification. It enables students to master the sociological study of the media through in-depth PDF summaries, visually dynamic PowerPoint presentations, and a range of skills-based and assessment-focused materials. Core content areas include: Media Ownership and Control, The New Media, Globalisation and the Media, Media Representations (of class, gender, ethnicity, age, and disability), Media Content and Audiences, and Media Effects and Audience Theories.
Each topic is supported by comprehensive PowerPoint slides that break down theoretical perspectives (Marxist, Pluralist, Feminist, Postmodernist), key sociologists, and contemporary examples such as streaming services, citizen journalism, media moral panics, and the impact of digital algorithms on consumption. The bundle explores how media both reflects and shapes society, power structures, and identities, and how audiences actively interpret or resist media content.
To build exam confidence and critical writing skills, the pack includes connectives worksheets, skills-based activities (e.g. PEEL paragraph practice, media text analysis, theory-application tasks), and essay planning templates. Each major topic comes with a focused podcast episode, offering accessible summaries of key theories, debates, and sociological applications—ideal for independent revision or flipped learning. The question bank features a wide range of exam-style questions and model answers, including 10- and 20-mark essay questions such as “Evaluate the view that media owners control media content for ideological purposes” and “Assess the impact of new media on audience behaviour.” A series of interactive quizzes reinforces key terms, theorists, and concepts through fun and formative assessment.
Altogether, this full-course Media bundle equips students with the theoretical depth, real-world application, and analytical skill needed to excel in the media unit of A Level Sociology. It’s ideal for teachers delivering the course or students seeking a structured, content-rich, and engaging way to revise.
This is a large pack of resources for learning and revision of the “Families” section of AQA Sociology GCSE. The pack includes:
The Functionalist Perspective
The Marxist Perspective
The Feminist Perspective
Different Families
Rapoport & Rapoport
Conjugal Role Relationships
Changing Families
Changing Households
Wider Family Relationships
Marriage and Divorce
Theories of Divorce
Criticisms of Families
Is the Nuclear Family Still Important?
Knowledge Organisers
Practice Exam Questions
A set of thorough and comprehensive revision booklets for all three A Level sociology exams, which cover all content they need to know. It includes information for students, and loads of activities ranging from crosswords to essay planning. Last year I published booklets which only included the advanced info, so I have updated them this year to include everything! They worked really well last year to make sure that students were revising early on, and I’m sure they will be as succesful this year too.
There is a booklet for each of the following topics: education, families, media, crime, and theory and methods
I have been using these as home learning and in lessons- students find they structure their revision really well.
I really hope this is useful to you!
This bundle contains a complete series of workbooks made for GCSE Sociology students. It includes the four new workbooks made for each of the four main sections of the course (Family, Education, Crime & Deviance, and Social Stratification) and, as a bonus resource, my very popular Research Methods workbook.
The workbooks were designed for the AQA specification and adapted for the WJEC/EDUQAS specification (two versions of each workbook are included in this resource pack).
Each of the four main workbooks contains the following:
Student Progress-Check Tasks
A Personal Learning Checklist
Activity 1 - Mind-Map Overview Task
Activity 2 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 3 - Key-Work Match & Listing Tasks
Activity 4 - Online Research Tasks
Activity 5 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 6 - Bare-bones Essay Planning Task
Activity 7 - Creative Tasks (Posters & Poetry)
Activity 8 - Investigate & Report (Newspaper Article Task)
Activity 9 - Reading Comprehension
Activity 10 - Essay-Planning Activity
Activity 11- Essay Assessment
Extension Tasks (Many!)
Each contains 25+ sides of activities and is designed to be printed as a double-sided workbook. The files are in editable Word (.doc) format in-case you wish to make any amendments (e.g. changing the exam questions).
The workbooks are not designed to be a comprehensive: they each include selected readings and cover some (not all) of the topics listed in the specification.
UPDATE: This bundle has now been enhanced with four additional workbooks: these ‘video-learning workbooks’ help students to learn from online video resources more effectively.
If you are happy with your purchase and leave a review and rating for this TES bundle, please email me ( godwin86@gmail.com ) and I will send you a FREE ‘Revision Strategy Battle Planner’ which will be useful for your Year 11 students.
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Sociology - Crime and Deviance Revision guide resource.
This revision guide contains a collection of the principles for the crime and deviance sociology exam. The revision guide includes details of:
Marxism Theories of Crime and Deviance
Interactionist Theories of Crime and Deviance
Realist Theories of Crime and Deviance
Post and Late Modern Theories of Crime and Deviance
Controlling and Reducing Crime – the Role of the Community, the Police and Different Forms of Punishment.
Social Class and Crime
Ethnicity and Crime
Gender and Crime
Globalisation, state, and green crime
Victimology
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Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students identify factors affecting life chances including social class, gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, age, disability, religion and belief and understand they affect life chances.
Cover the following key terms:
Life chances
Ageism
Disablism
Homophobia
LGBTQ
ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITY INCLUDED
Key terms and definition sheet for the lesson included
3 marker and 12 mark exam questions included
Makes references to key terms students should know: Socio-economic
class – power – status – elite – strata- social stratification – hierarchy - Sex - Gender - Gender roles - Masculinity -Femininity - Glass ceiling Ethnicity -
Race - Racism - Racial discrimination - Institutional racism - Ethnocentric curriculum.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT
Detailed and differentiated student-led lesson that explores sampling methods, sampling frame, representative (sample), generalising (findings) and the relationship between these and positivism vss interpretivism and theoretical issues. LESSON COMES WITH ANSWERS
Catered for AQA A-level Sociology but can be used for ANY SPEC and GCSE without being edited.
Comes with key term sheet for the lesson.
This is a GCSE sociology lesson, Eduqas WJEC. The lesson focuses on the Functionalist view of the family. There is a total of 11 slides and the lesson is designed to last 90 minutes.
Included:
-starter activity. Statements about the family, students need to explain whether they agree or disagree with the statement. worksheets included.
-encouraging students to think about what they already know about Functionalism. What do they say about society in general?
-explanation of the organic analogy. Students to summaries the information in their books using key concepts.
-brief explanation of Functionalism as a consensus theory and why Feminists and Marxists would disagree.
-explanation of Murdock’s four functions of the family.
-explanation of Parsons two functions of the family. Challenge/ extension questions provided throughout.
-student activity. Draw a spider diagram to demonstrate the issues that the family can help to deal with- applying knowledge about the ‘warm bath’. Answers included on the power point.
-task encouraging critical thinking. Students to answer questions based on how they think they could improve the Functionalist theory.
-criticisms of the Functionalist view of the family.
-poster task, consolidating knowledge on Functionalism. May wish to use the textbook to support students.
-plenary- true or false activity. Answers on the power point.
This taster lesson is designed to introduce prospective students to sociology. It covers what the subject of sociology is, what the A level exam entails and the types of topics that are studied. It includes some ‘lesson samples slides’ which are mini tasks taken from typical A level lessons. It also includes a ‘build a society’ task which allows students to begin to explore the different perspectives.
Topic: Beliefs in Society – Complete unit for AQA Specification
What’s included:
• 26 × fully editable lesson PowerPoints
• Accompanying student work booklets (fillable during lessons)
• Completed teacher versions of the work booklets
• A range of engaging tasks including stretch & challenge for differentiation
• Links to video clips and suggested discussion prompts
• Clear lesson objectives with links to the specification and exam papers
Please note, this bundle does not include the exam work sections. See link below for exam section bundle.
Perfect for AQA A-Level Sociology Paper 2: Beliefs in Society, this complete set of lessons covers the entire unit of Beliefs in Society as part of the AQA specification. Designed to save you planning time and engage students, it includes PowerPoints, work booklets, and exam-focused materials ready to use straight away in the classroom.
It includes twenty-six lesson PowerPoints, each designed for 60–90 minutes of teaching time, depending on the number of activities chosen. Every lesson features a blend of teacher-led tasks, independent activities, and video clips, with built-in opportunities for stretch and challenge to support differentiation.
The lessons are designed to be used alongside a work booklets, provided in two versions:
• a student copy for learners to complete during lessons
• a completed copy for teacher reference or student support
The link below contains the same resources but includes additional bonus material and collated copies of the student and teacher work booklets AND exam work sections.
Bonus Material Included
• Knowledge Organisers
• Topic Checklist
• Exam Question Booklet
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-a-level-sociology-beliefs-in-society-complete-unit-bonus-13350702
Topic: Theory & Methods 1
Specification link:
• quantitative and qualitative methods of research; research design
• sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, participant and non-participant observation, experiments, documents and official statistics
• the distinction between primary and secondary data, and between quantitative and qualitative data
• the relationship between positivism, interpretivism and sociological methods; the nature of ‘social facts’
• the theoretical, practical and ethical considerations influencing choice of topic, choice of method(s) and the conduct of research
What’s included:
• 10 × fully editable lesson PowerPoints
• 10 × student work booklets (fillable during lessons)
• 10 × completed teacher version of the work booklets
6 x Exam question worksheets with Helpful hints
7 x knowledge organisers
• A range of engaging tasks including stretch & challenge for differentiation
• Links to video clips and suggested discussion prompts
• Clear lesson objectives with links to the specification and exam papers
Perfect for AQA A-Level Sociology: Theory & Methods 1, this complete set of lessons explores half of the topic of theory and methods including types of data, practical, ethical and theoretical considerations as well as sources of data in general and in the context of education.
Designed to save you planning time and engage students, it includes PowerPoints, work booklets, and exam-focused materials ready to use straight away in the classroom.
It includes ten lesson PowerPoints, each designed for 60–90 minutes of teaching time, depending on the number of activities chosen. Every lesson features a blend of teacher-led tasks, independent activities, and video clips, with built-in opportunities for stretch and challenge to support differentiation.
The lessons are designed to be used alongside work booklets, provided in two versions:
• a student copy for learners to complete during lessons
• a completed copy for teacher reference or student support
The link below contains the same resources but includes additional bonus material.
Bonus Material Included
• Topic Checklist
• Exam Question Booklet
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13393255
A booklet that can be used alongside PowerPoints created by myself (see shop and shared Google Drive), introducing students to the first Eduqas module.
The booklet is full of activities, model answers and exam questions.
WJEC AS Level Sociology, Unit One: Introductory Core
This is a list of concepts that the student should understand and be able to explain using relevant examples and with reference to sociological knowledge.
This list can be printed for student folders and display
What you may need to be familiar with in studying this course.
A guide to students as to what they will be learning over the course and what they need to learn.
This could also be used by teachers as a guide to planning lessons.