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AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: The Hypodermic Syringe Model
Objectives:
To understand the way in which audiences react to violence in the media
Understand the application of evidence and studies of audiences and violence in the media and in real life.
Evaluate theories on the relationship between audiences and violence in the media and in real life.
Key terms:
Homogeneous audience
Disinhibition effect
Deviancy amplification
Scapegoat
Key Questions:
How influential is violence in the media?
AQA AS Sociology- Families & Households: Demography
Objectives:
To become familiar with the trends in birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, family size, age at which women have their first child and migration.
To become familiar with the reasons for the changes in the trends in birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, family size, age at which women have their first child and migration.
Key terms/concepts:
Demography | Fertility rate | General fertility rate| Total fertility rate
Key Question:
What are the trends and patterns with families in the UK?
AQA AS Sociology- Families and Households: Feminism 20 mark Essay
A lesson firstly consolidating the Marxist perspective (starter) then going into putting a 20 mark essay together. Can work individually or in groups, then peer assess using the mark scheme.
This purchase contains:
- Lesson PowerPoint
- ‘Pimp your Sociology literacy’ resource included on PowerPoint
- Question with item
- Mark scheme
Objectives:
To consolidate our understanding of social class (AO1)
To apply and compare Feminism perspectives on the family through your essay (AO2 +AO3)
Key terms/concepts:
Genderquake
Liberal feminism
Radical feminism
Black feminism
Domestic division of labour
Key Question:
How does the feminist view contribute to our understanding of the family?
AQA Sociology 2018 Paper 2 Families and Media Marking Aid
This initially started out as a simple mind map for myself so I could check content in one place but then decided to also create something you can give to students to improve their work and they can tailor to their needs!
The resource covers Families and Media so both the 10 markers and and 20 markers for each topic.
Happy marking!
AQA AS Sociology- Families & Households: Family Diversity Essay Exemplar
Objective:
To account for reasons behind diversity in the family
To understand how to plan and write a sociology essay
Key terms/concepts:
Family Diversity
Family types
Key Questions:
What are the reasons behind family diversity?
How do we put together a 20 mark answer?
How should we structure our answers to demonstrate our knowledge?
AQA A2 Sociology- Theory and Methods: Sociology As a Science
Objectives:
To explore the nature of science and the extent to which sociology can be regarded as scientific
Key terms:
Empirical evidence | Objectivity | Value freedom | Social facts | Social Integration | Moral Integration | Realism | Paradigm |
Key Questions:
How can you evaluate the view that sociology is/isn’t a science?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Representations- Sexuality and Disability in the Media
Objectives:
To understand how sexuality and disability are represented in the mass media.
To Evaluate changes in representations of sexuality and disability
Key terms:
Camp
Heterosexual gaze
Key Questions:
How have representations of people disability and sexuality changed over the years?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Media and Globalisation
Objectives:
To understand cultural and media imperialism theories of globalisation
To know cultural flows and network and reception theories of globalisation
Examine studies and evidence of competing models of globalization
Key terms:
Globalisation
Cultural imperialism
Public sphere
Key Questions:
What is our understanding of globalisation?
How has globalisation impacted the public sphere?
AQA A2 Sociology- Theory and Methods: Value Freedom
Objectives:
To identify (AO1) and analyse (AO2+AO3) the nature and the extent (AO3) of value freedom in sociological research
Key terms/Concepts:
Subjectivity
Objectivity
Value-freedom
Positivist/Interpretivist
Key Questions:
Can we be value-free in Sociological research?
AQA AS Sociology- Families & Households: The Dark Side of the Family (Domestic Abuse)
Objectives:
To become familiar with the extent of domestic abuse in Britain.
To become familiar with a Sociological study into domestic abuse.
To examine how far we can trust the statistics on domestic abuse.
To outline the Radical Feminist explanations of domestic abuse.
Key terms/concepts:
Dark side of the family
Key Question:
How does the feminist view contribute to our understanding of the family?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Folk Devils and Moral Panic
Objectives:
To understand the relationship between crime and violence in the media and in real life
Understand the application of evidence and studies of crime and violence in the media and in real life.
Evaluate theories on the relationship between crime and violence in the media and in real life.
Key terms:
Folk Devil
Moral Panic
Deviancy Amplification
Key Questions:
How influential is violence in the media?
AQA A2 Sociology- Crime and Deviance: Introduction
Objectives:
To define crime and deviance
To understand that both crime and deviance are socially constructed.
Key terms:
Crime
Deviance
Social construct
Key Questions:
How can we define crime and deviance?
AQA A Level Sociology- Crime and Deviance: Labelling Theory
This is a new style of lessons I have started putting together, it includes a workbook that students have and the powerpoint follows it through!
The evaluation can either be something they have a go at and you go through it on the powerpoint, or I have typed it out onto a sheet and you could do another task with that :)
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Representations- Ethnicity in the Media
Objectives:
To understand the analysis of how minority ethnicities are represented in the media.
To understand analysis of changes in media representations of minority ethnicities.
Key terms:
Tokenism
Key Questions:
How are representations of minority ethnics linked to culture and identity, crime and deviance and stratification?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Ownership and Control
LO: To understand the relationship between ownership and control of the mass media
A LOT of the theory and researchers broken up with a few tasks.
- Definitions
- Concepts
- Marxist and Neo-Marxist ideas
- Evaluation and AO3 focus
Enjoy!
AQA A2 Sociology- Theory and Methods: Relationship between theory and methods
Objectives:
To explore the relationship between theory and methods
Key terms:
Inductive approach
Grounded theory
Key Questions:
In what ways do the theories sociologists hold, influence the ways we go about researching society?
AQA Sociology Paper 1 Education 2018 Marking Aid
This is a resource I created after the 2018 Education mock paper with a mindmap for each of the questions and includes:
A breakdown of the AO marks
‘student-friendly’ language of the mark scheme
indicative content
A mini summary of further studies students may have used or could use.
I initially created this as a guide for myself when it comes to marking, but I then printed out copies for my class and they use it afterwards to improve their answers. “Miss what can I write to make this better?” Sorted!
Sociology Christmas Quiz
5 rounds of Sociological, Christmas and movie knowledge fun!
Add your name on the front slide, and you might want to change the first slide photos to one of yourself or your HoD to make things more fun!
Answer sheet included!
Enjoy!
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: New Media
Objectives:
To understand the impact of new media on its audiences and society.
Key terms / studies /concepts:
Cultural convergence
Participatory culture
Collective intelligence
Digital divide
Digital underclass
Social capital
Key Question:
What is the impact of new media on society?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Representations and Stereotypes
Objectives:
To understand the nature of stereotypes
To understand the relationship between advertising, consumerism and media representations
Key terms:
Stereotypes
Williams
Key Questions:
In what ways do we stereotype people? What impact does media advertising have on these?