This resource is a set of approximately 50 lessons (please note that each lesson on the SOL take approximately 2 lessons, perhaps more) for the Social Stratification unit for the new 1-9 AQA GCSE. Topics covered are: social stratification, the class system, life chances, poverty, power, welfare state, patriarchy. My schemes of learning are very detailed lesson plans which include: WALTs (lesson objectives), WILFs (success criteria), activities linked to WALTs, checking activities for each section of knowledge in lesson, assessment placement, suggested resources, extended writing/exam question opportunities, home learning, links to the GCSE specification and minimum/exceeding expectations descriptions. Please note, individual lessons including resources will be available to purchase during the coming academic year.

This lesson looks at whether or not inequality is necessary in society. You will need the textbook for this lesson.

This lesson compares the ideas of Marx and Weber. I delivered this lesson to students after teaching them about Marx, but this could be delivered as a retrieval practice activity closer to exams. Also includes a practice exam question with a model (exceeding requirements of the paper) on the last slide of the PPT.

This lesson looks at the Enlightenment, Durkheim and Functionalism with an active learning phase which creates an analogy.

This lesson looks at social mobility: what it is, different forms, how socially mobile the UK is and the effectiveness of government policies. This lesson includes WALTs, WILFS, checking (A4L) and literacy tasks. Please note: the articles/research papers are in the notes section of the PPT.

This is a mock paper that I have created for my Y11s as they have already completed the one (grrrrr) sample assessment available on the AQA website. It mirrors the sample paper throughout, but with different questions (obviously). 3 of the 4 items included in the paper are from the AQA text book so I cannot include the images of them for copyright reasons. I have, however, told you where they need to be inserted and where exactly to find them. Now includes model answers for each question.

This lesson is a single lesson that introduces poverty. Includes: definitions of poverty, how it is measured (numeracy task) and sociological explanations of poverty. The lesson has WALTs, WILFs and checking (A4L) activities.

This is a double lesson that introduces students to the concept of material deprivation and provides an overview of its impact on education. This lesson includes; defining material deprivation, facts about material deprivation and its impact on education, drawing conclusions from data, WILFs and WALTs, checking activities, literacy and writing tasks. Links to the articles/definition task are in the notes section of the relevant slides.

This is a double lesson that looks at Karl Marx and the basics of Marxism.

This is a lesson that looks at the explanations of poverty: working-class and underclass subcultures, the cycle of poverty and structural explanations. The lesson also includes a 12 mark exam practice question, checking activities and WALTs and WILFs.

This lesson looks at Marxist views on the family and education, with comparisons to Functionalism. We interleave at my school, but this will also be useful as a revision tool. Includes: WALTs, WILFs, checking (A4L), exam practice, direct instruction and student work phases.

This is a lesson that looks at the costs of education and financial barriers to university. Includes: teacher talk periods (information to prompt is on the slides), independent tasks, think pair share (oracy), checking (A4L) and a practice exam question that I have formulated (10 mark). Please note: the information referred to in the university task is from the Napier Press Book 1, but similar information can be found in other textbooks.

Whole lesson on is sociology a science? Includes DARTs and checking activites. You will need the Hodder textbook for this lesson.

This is a ‘get on with it’ lesson (or could be set as cover) for the introduction to research methods in A Level Sociology. The textbook mentioned is the Collins textbook.

Test for the end of the first topic in the education unit