This set of lessons 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. PowerPoint covers two lessons.
This set of lessons 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. PowerPoint covers two lessons.
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
This is a large pack of resources for learning and revision of the “Education” section of AQA Sociology GCSE. The pack includes:
Functions of Education
Education & Capitalism
Feminist Perspective
Types of Schools
Independent vs State Education
Alternative Education
External Factors on Educational Achievement
Education Policies
Processes Within Schools
Social Class & Education
Social Class & Education - Explanations
Gender & Educational Achievement
Gender & Education - Explanations
Perspectives on School Processes
Ethnicity & Educational Achievement
Ethnicity & Education - Explanations
Practice exam questions
Knowledge organisers
AQA A-Level Sociology: Feminism and the Family – Complete Lesson & Resources
This is a fully resourced and challenging A-Level Sociology lesson on Feminist Perspectives of the Family, designed specifically for the AQA Paper 2 Families & Households unit.
Perfect for both first-teach and revision, this bundle is structured to stretch the most able while supporting students who need more scaffolding. It is ideal for 50–90 minutes of teaching.
What’s Included?
-Fully editable PowerPoint (Feminism and the Family)
Clear explanations, debate prompts, AO1/AO2/AO3 integration, and scenario-based application tasks.
-High-level hinge questions (MCQ style)
Designed to check for understanding after teacher-led explanation, with plausible distractors for desirable difficulty.
-Concept sorting task (worksheet and task slides)
Engaging, challenging retrieval activity where students categorise quotes, policies, and theorists by feminist type — includes false clues to stretch thinking.
-Structured consolidation worksheet
Allows students to apply knowledge, justify answers, and revisit key theorists and ideas across all four feminist strands.
-Embedded case studies & debates
Realistic family scenarios to apply feminist perspectives and encourage critical thought. Each theory includes a debate question for stretch and evaluation.
Feminist perspectives covered in depth:
Liberal Feminism (Oakley, Young & Wilmott)
Marxist Feminism (Fran Ansley)
Radical Feminism (Greer, Delphy & Leonard)
Difference/Black Feminism (hooks, Mirza, intersectionality)
It has:
Balanced blend of AO1 knowledge, AO2 application, and AO3 evaluation
Easily adapted for 1 hour or double lessons
Promotes discussion, critical thinking, and high challenge
Visually clear and student-friendly without oversimplifying the theory
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This is a pack of resources for learning and revision of the “Crime & Deviance” section of AQA Sociology GCSE. The pack includes:
Introduction to Crime and Deviance
Social Construction of Crime
Gender and Crime
Feminist Perpsectives on Crime
Social Order
Merton’s Perspective and Anomie
Media and Public Debate
Ethnicity and Crime
Becker’s Interactionist Perspective
Why do people commit crime?
Data on Crime - Victim Surveys & Self Report Studies
Data on Crime - Statistics
The Prison System
Crime & Deviance Vocabulary Sheet & Studies Organiser
Practice Exam Questions
Topic: Theory & Methods
Specification link: the nature of science and the extent to which Sociology can be regarded as scientific
Focus: Sociology and Science
What’s included:
• 1 × fully editable lesson PowerPoint
• 1 × student work booklet with an exam work section
• 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 2, this resource pack covers Sociology and Science including key concepts and how this links back to topics studied during A level sociology. Please note that due to the synoptic links, this lesson has been designed to be taught at the end of the course. It also contains some pre-reading activities and tasks which students are expected to complete prior to the lesson (although this is optional).
The pack includes one lesson PowerPoint, designed for 60–90 minutes of teaching time depending on the number of activities selected. It features a combination of teacher-led tasks, independent student activities, and video clips, along with embedded stretch and challenge opportunities to support differentiation. The lesson is designed to run alongside a work booklet, which has a exam section included.
A lesson introducing Year 12 students to Interactionism
Activities include:
Interactionist ‘show and tell’
A discussion around ‘Black Mirror’
‘Star rating’ final evaluation
Exam questions at the end, as well as an example paragraph and suggested sentence starters
Follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study
Powerpoint and student workbook included
A booklet effectively summarising Functionalist, Marxist, Neo-Marxist, Feminist, Social Action and Postmodern theories.
Can be used as flipped learning stimulus or support for students revision!
Sociology GCSE revision guide for paper 1&2 Research Methods Paper 1 Compulsory Core - social processes and the Family. Paper 2 Compulsory Core- Social structures and Crime and deviance.
A lesson introducing Year 12 students to Marxism
Activities include:
‘StarPower game’ - trading strategy game
Marxism in the news
‘Star rating’ final evaluation
Exam questions at the end, as well as an example paragraph and suggested sentence starters
Follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study
Powerpoint and student workbook included
‘StarPower game’ requires additional resources - coloured counters and envelopes
A lesson designed to introduce students to sociological perspectives (Marxism, Functionalism, Feminism) through a ‘design your own society’ game
Students make key decisions about a new colony on Mars through the lens of a given perspective, with a discussion to follow
Powerpoint and student workbook included
A lesson introducing Year 12 students to the Feminist perspective
Activities include:
Draw a feminist
Discussion of book extracts from ‘Invisible Women’
Film clip from the ‘Barbie’ movie
‘Star rating’ final evaluation
Essay questions at the end, as well as an example paragraph and suggested sentence starters
Follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study
Powerpoint and student workbook included
Additional articles relating to ‘Barbie’ and gender
A lesson introducing Year 12 students to Postmodernism
Activities include:
Postmodernism in the News
London Olympics - Industrial Revolution video
‘Star rating’ final evaluation
Exam questions at the end, as well as an example paragraph and suggested sentence starters
Follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study
Powerpoint and student workbook included
PowerPoints devised for level 3 learners.
Covers Functionalism, Marxism, Interactionism and some feminism.
Devised to be delievered online but can be easily converted to classrom delivery.
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This resource contains 30 minutes of teaching time
This lesson includes;
Retrieval practice
Exam practice
MWB exercises
Writing tasks
Discussion tasks
Please check notes for teacher notes and video links
Three lesson plans taken from Michael Haralambos and Martin Holborn's classic textbook &'Sociology: Themes and Perspectives.&'; The aims of these lessons are to compare quantitative and qualitative methods, to understand basic sociological methods and to apply the concepts of validity and reliability.