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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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!
Instructions and resources to play a game of Buckaroo to solidify understanding of Sociological Perspectives on Crime for A-level Sociology
Resources include:
Instructions
Playing cards
This is intended for use with a standard Buckaroo game
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
AQA A-Level Sociology: The Personal Life Perspective and the Family (Paper 2)
This complete, high-challenge Sociology lesson unpacks the Personal Life Perspective (PLP) in an engaging, accessible, and evaluative way. Designed for AQA A-Level Paper 2 (Families and Households), the resources are ideal for either a first-teach double lesson or revision masterclass — fully differentiated and ready to go.
What students will do:
Explore the PLP view of the family and how it differs from structural theories (AO1)
Apply PLP ideas to real-life case studies of donor-conceived children and chosen families (AO2)
Evaluate the strengths and criticisms of the perspective, using quotes, dilemmas, and sociologists like Tipper, Smart, and Nordqvist (AO3)
What’s included in this download:
Editable, structured PowerPoint (Personal Life Perspective and Families)
Clear, concise explanations with application tasks, challenge questions, and interactionist contrasts.
Scaffolded worksheet (“Consolidation Challenge”)
Students explore emotional, social and legal dilemmas of donor families and write an AO2/3 mini-essay with guidance and quote unpacking.
Hinge Questions (MCQ)
Desirably difficult questions with plausible distractors — great for mini-whiteboards, AfL, or revision quizzes.
Thinking tasks and scenario sorting
Includes a challenging activity where students decide which people (e.g. fictive kin, pets, donors) count as family from a PLP vs structuralist view — brilliant for debate and deeper reflection.
AO1/AO2/AO3 Exam Link
Includes practice planning for a 10-marker:
“Outline and explain two ways the Personal Life Perspective views the family differently from other sociological theories.”
VIDEO LINKS INCASE THEY DONT WORK - https://youtu.be/cru6QtQu6nk
https://youtu.be/TjK0dbr7ReM?t=12
This lesson is:
Perfect for high-ability stretch with clear scaffolds for lower-ability support
Encourages independent thinking and debate
Builds clear conceptual understanding of PLP vs structural theories
Integrates videos, quotes, and contemporary case studies
Whether you’re teaching this for the first time or need a fresh take for revision season, this lesson delivers high engagement, deep thinking, and brilliant outcomes.
Easy to adapt. Fully editable. No textbook needed.
Topic: Theory & Methods
Specification link: debates about subjectivity, objectivity and value freedom
Focus: Sociology and Values
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 Values 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-Level sociology (AQA) the Neoliberal and New Right perspective on education. This lesson consists of a total of 12 slides and is designed to fill a 90 minute lesson.
It contains:
a starter activity based on recapping the Functionalist perspective on education (quiz). The power point also includes the answers.
introduction to the New Right hand out, students to read through and then read through as a class.
detailed power point slides explaining the Neoliberal and New Right view of education.
slides explaining the two roles of the state and education & national identity as explained by the New Right.
criticisms of the New Right perspective.
Ball et al’s study explaining parental choosers as a criticism of the New Right. The three different types of choosers are explained on the powerpoint, there is also a worksheet to go through this. The last slide is based on a documentary called ‘admissions impossible’- i do not think you can find this online anymore, some school’s may have this available on DVD if not, please ignore the last slide.
Topic: Families & Households
Specification link: the relationship of the family to the social structure and social change, with particular reference to the economy and to state policies
Focus: Review and Exam work on the Perspectives views of the family and Social policy
What’s included:
• 1 × review lesson PowerPoint
• 2 × exam-focused PowerPoints (using PEEEL structure)
• 1 × exam practice booklet to support written responses
• A range of engaging tasks including stretch & challenge for differentiation
• Exam-style questions with guided examples and model responses
This resource pack features an independent style review lesson covering the Functionalist, Feminist, New Right, and Marxist views of the family as well as the Social policies which affect the family, as part of the specification topic ‘the relationship of the family to the social structure and social change, with particular reference to the economy and to state policies’.
In addition, it includes two dedicated exam PowerPoints that focus on building essay-writing skills using the PEEEL structure. These lessons are supported by an accompanying exam practice booklet, designed to help students develop and refine their analytical and evaluative skills for longer-answer questions.
These lessons can be used as stand-alone exam sessions or can be embedded within taught content.
A bundle of lessons introducing the key sociological perspectives to Year 12 students.
Comprehensive lesson powerpoints, student handbooks, exam questions and example essay extracts
Covers the following topics:
What is Sociology?
Sociological Perspectives
Functionalism
Marxism
Feminism
Interactionism
Postmodernism
Consolidation - HS2
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
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.