I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
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I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
*PLEASE REVIEW*
I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
I produce video resources here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31WbZO2OQW3Ul108I0QUmw
This pack contains a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying 7-page student booklet
Lesson
Starter:
Define:
State Crime (examples given, discussing encouraged)
Human Rights (examples given, discussing encouraged)
STATE CRIME:
1 - The Scale of State Crimes
2 - The State is the Source of Law
McLaughlin - Four types of STATE CRIME:
1 - Political Crimes
2 - Crimes by Security Forces and Police
3 - Economic Crimes
4 - Social and Cultural Crimes
Group Presentation tasks:
Students to research a pre-scribed example of a state crime
They are given lesson time to research the topic and then create a presentation - presentations to be delivered AFTER rest of this session has been delivered
Defining STATE CRIMES:
Domestic Law (Chambliss) - with examples)
Social Harms [Michalowski] - (with examples)
Zemiology - (with examples)
ARE THESE STATE CRIMES - task
International Law [Rothe and Millins]
HUMAN RIGHTS
definition re-cap from starter
Human Rights include:
1 - Natural Rights
2 - Civil Rights
Cohen and a discussion of Natural / Civil Rights
Discussion of the Irish Famine
Plenary - students to present their presentations. Class to make notes on:
Why and how do large numbers of normally law-abiding citizens become involved in atrocities?
This pack contains a 51-slide PowerPoint Presentation and an accompanying 50 page student booklet
The lessons covers:
Starter - students to discuss and debate rise of secularism, why religious belief is in decline, etc.
Definitions of Secularisation
**Discussion of basic census data **- introduce the central arguement: secularisation is taking place!
Church attendance in decline - reasons for this, alternative ways to interpret this data
Decline in Baptisms, rise of Bogus Baptism
Task - what others reasons can students think of to explain a decline in church attendance?
Decline in Religious affiliation
The church is losing its influence as a social institution
Decline in number of clergy - “Linda Woodhead”
Steve Bruce - Reinforce the view that secularisation is happening
Explanations of Secularisation
Religious affiliation is in decline / reasons why this is happening are discussed
Growth of Social and Religious diversity undermines the mainstream organisations
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Max Weber - Rationalisation**
Rationalisation
Desenchantment - Protestant Reformation and Maritn Luther
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Steve Bruce - Technological World View**
Structural Differentiation
Disengagement
Privatised religion
Social & Cultural Diversity
Reading/comprehension activity for students to complete independently
Feedback / Q&A
Critics of Social and Cultural Diversity
Religious Diversity
Cultural Defence
Cultural Transition
Religion as a focal point for group identity
Secularisation in America
American Way of Life
Religion has become superficial in the USA
Steve Bruce - summary and supporting evidence
Critiques of Secularisation theory
Assessment / Consolidation
in-class quiz (with answers)
10- mark assessment
This pack contains ONE PowerPoint presentation and one student booklet
This session is largely students led, hence the price
The PowerPoint covers:
Starter: students discuss their thoughts on the soundtrack/use of sound in Alien [feedback and class discussion]
KEY TERMS: task/re-cap
Students to make list of ajdectives that describe the sound
Short reading activity: define the sound of alien as ‘dread’
Anlaysis scene 1 - The Nostromo {interoir and exterior]
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 2 - TheFace Hugger
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 3 - The Death of Brett
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 4 -Ripley vs. Alien (final escape/chaotic sound)
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Consolidation:
Reading (two detailed analyses for students to review/annotate)
Guided essay planning activity
Optional assessment included
This pack contains a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying booklet.
The lesson covers:
Task / in-class debate: Is religion a force for change, or a conservative force?
Task - re-cap of Functionalist, Marxist and Feminist view of religion
Religion as a force for change:
Max Weber and Calvinism
Predestination
Asceticism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Evaluation of Weber’s perspective
Consolidation Task - answer writing
Task: Research for presentation
The accompanying booklet contains additional content (essays, cartoons and additional consolidation activities)
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces Post-Modernism and Social Action theories, and an accompanying booklet.
The pack also contains a a consolidation test to test student knowledge at the end of the session.
The lessons introduces students to:
Starter: Re-cap Functionalism, Marxism & Feminism
Revisiting Structural Theories - re-cap
Define: Social Action Theory - discussed in relation to Structural approaches
Social Action Theory
Intro to Post Modernism
Grand-Narratives - Social Institutions give legitimacy
Status Quo/Norms - how they are reinforced and challenged.
Plenary Task
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces MARXISM, and an accompanying booklet.
The pack also contains a a consolidation test to test student knowledge at the end of the session.
The lessons introduces students to:
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Definition of Marxism
Marxism as a Conflict/Structural Theory
How Marxism differs from Functionalism
Tasks that explore the characteristics of the Proletariat / Bourgeois
Discussion of the Super-structure
Plenary/Consoldiation quiz - handout and responses provided
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
This lesson covers Educational achievement and Social Class
The lesson is 38 slides long and covers: (approx one week of lesson time)
This pack contains a complete 36 lesson PowerPoint presentation, accompanying student handout, text book scans needed for task, sample response, mark scheme and an article covering Basil Bernstein’s Restricted/Elaborated Codes
The lesson covers:
Starter - middle class vs. working class achievement
External factors
Cultural Deprivation: language, parents’ education, working class sub-cultures
Speech codes: Restricted/Elaborated
Parents education: parenting style, educational behaviours
Cultural Deprivation - working-class sub-cultures
Bary Sugarman
Myth of Cultural Deprivation
Material Deprivation and Poverty
Cultural Capital / Pierre Bourdieu
Summary
Assessment
This pack contains a 64-slide PowerPoint presentation and 40 page student booklet
The lesson offers comprehensive coverage of CONFLICT THEORIES OF CRIME & DEVIANCE and contains the following:
Starter
Re-cap of Marxism and the Marxist Structure
The Traditional Marxist Perspective of Crime and Deviance
Marxist view of Crime
Working Class Crime
types of crimes committed by the WC
Poverty, Utilitarian Crimes, Alienation
Crimes of the middle-class
Corporate Crimes
White Collar Crimes
*** Elite Deviance**
*** White Collar vs Corporate Crimes**
Laws Reflect the needs/values of the Ruling Classes
Ideological Functions of the Law
Corporate Law - case study: 2007 Corporate Homicide Case
Mid-lesson plenary/summary task - 8 questions designed to test students learning so far
**Law Enforcement and Punishment **
Benefits Street - viewing and note taking task
Evaluation of the Marxist View of Crime
**Mid-lesson Consildation Activities: **
Mind-mapping and articles to be read/annotated
**Neo-Marxist View of Crime **
Fully Social Theory of Deviance
Stuart Hall - Neo-Marxist Views of Crime
Moral Panics - tasks, examples and activities
New Left Realism
Jack Young
Flaws in this perspective
Crimes of the Powerful
Reiman & Leighton; The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison
What is White Collar Crime?
Occupational Crimes
Corporate Crimes
The scale and types of Corporate Crime
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Abuse of Trust **
Harold Shipman case study - tasks
Case Study: Abuse of trust by the Police
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Invisibility of Corporate Crimes**
Reading task / Q*A
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Explanation of Corporate Crimes**
Strain Theory summary
Differential Association summary
Labelling Theory summary
Marxism summary
Summary of Conflict Theory
The booklet is to be filled in by students in the lesson. It contains all of the other resources needed i.e. articles, images, spaces to complete tasks, etc.
The PowerPoint is comprehensive but is also broken up in to smaller, managable sections. You are free to chop the PowerPoint up in to several smaller sessions and share with learners if that would suit your approach.
This pack contains two Powerpoint presentations:
1 - 39 Slide PowerPoint that covers the Functionalist View of Religion AND ‘Civil Religion’
2 - 5 slide PowerPoint that covers evaluation of the Functionalist view
The lessons are accompanied with detailed handouts that students complete during the sessions
The lessons cover:
Starter task - symbols and meaning
Introduce key theorists
Define: Value Consensus, Order, Solidarity
Define and introduce: The Sacred, The Profaine
Short reading and summative task to consolidation knowledge and understanding of The Sacred, The Profaine
Totemism - case study: Arunta Clan
What is a ‘Totem’
Totemism and Clans
Task - students to create their own clans, rules and totems that symbolise the values of the clan
Reading / consolidation task
The Collective Consciousness
Critiques of Durkheim’s view point
Malinowski
Social Solidarity - explored and expanded upon
Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific case study
‘God of the Gaps’
Religion ‘At a time of life crisis’
Parsons
- Independent Reading task
- Positive functions of religion
Robert Bellah - Civil Religion
Civil Religion in the USA
Civil Religion in the UK
Gapped handout- task
Assessment - 10 mark assessment task
This pack contains one lesson and one accompanying handout that covers
AQA year 13 SOCIOLOGY - Feminist View of Religion
The lesson covers:
Evidence of patriarchy in religion
What would Liberal/Radical/Marxist feminists think about religion task
Answers to previous question
Research tasks - evidence of patriarchal ideologies in religion
Four categories are given for the research task
Consolidation from task
Evaluation of feminist view: Karen Armstrong, Nawal El Saadawi, Linda Woodhead, Sophie Gilliat Ray Elisabth Brusco,
Secular society
Assessment - 10 mark question set
The booklet is detailed, contains additional content and further reading. Students will complete the handout during the lesson and write their assessment in the same book.
This pack contains a 30-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying 21-page student-booklet that covers the following:
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Starter task**
Following a short reading task, student to answer questions about The Conventions of International Law
Crime and Globalisation:
re-cap 'Globalisaiton'
'How May Globalisation Change Crime'? task
Castells 'forms of crime':
Arms trafficking
Sex Tourism
Trafficking in Body Parts
Cyber Crimes
Green Crimes
The Drug Trade
international Tourism
Smuggling
Crime - supply and demand led: third world nations and the appeal of crime
Risk Consciousness
Ian Taylor and Left Realism
Gobalisation changes patterns of crime
'Case Study: Bangladesh Factory Collapse [2013]
Reading and comprehension task:
Cimes of Globalisation, Rothe & Friedrichs
Patterns of Criminal Organisation
Winlow: Bouncers; Globalisation and de-industrialisation
Hobbs and Dunnigham: GLOCAL systems
Glenny: McMafia
Case study: Oligarchs
(reading, video task)
Green Crime
Examples of Green Crime - task
Traditional Criminology
Green Criminology
Zemiology
TWO Views of Harms
Anthropocentric view
Ecocentric view
Green Crimes
Primary Green Crimes
Secondary Green Crimes
Evaluation of Green Crimes
AQA SOCIOLOGY – PAPER 3 CRIME & DEVIANCE – GENDER AND CRIME [TWO LESSONS]
This pack contains TWO lessons that cover CRIME & DEVIANCE: GENDER
Each lesson comes with accompanying student booklet that can be filled in during the lesson as you teach
Lesson 1 is a 33-slide PowerPoint that covers:
Starter Task - Gender and Crime
Students given time to discuss and feedback their intial views of Crime and gender
Starting points - general differences between men, women and their realtionship with crime
Gender Patterns in Crime [general statistics]
Do Women Commit Less Crime?
Chivalry test
Evidence for the Chivalry Thesis
Evidence against the Chivalry Thesis
Self-report questionnaire - example and task/activity
Bias Against Women
Feminist Rejection of Chivalry Thesis
Issue developed and discussed with students
Quotes and views of prominent men in positions of power are provided to inspire discussion amongst students
Explaining Female Crime
Sex Role Theory
Patriarchal Control Theory
Control at home
Control at Work
Control in Public
Liberation Theory
Carlen: Class and Gender Deals
The Class Deal
The Gender Deal
Evaluation of arguements covered in this PowerPoint
Lesson 2 is a 24-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers:
Liberation Thesis
Alder [75]
Development of Alder's ideas
Case Study: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
Critiques of Liberation Thesis
Women and Violent Crime
Hand and Dodd
Rise of arrests for female violence
‘Widening the net’
Rise of Ladettes
Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Gender and Victimisation
Key statistics: Homicide Victims, Victims of Violence
Why do Women Commit Crime?
Student discussion
Hegemonic Masculinity
Subordinated Masculinities
Messerschmidt:
White middle class man
White working class men
Black working class men
Critiques of Messerschmidt
Winlow: Postmodernity, Masculinity and Crime
Globalisation and DeIndustrialisation
Topic Summary
Consolidation / assessment quiz
Questions and answers provided
This pack contains a 20 slide PowerPoint and an accompanying 14-page handout/booklet that students complete during the lesson and for consolidation
The lesson covers: IDEOLOGIES - Paper 2 - Beliefs in Society
Starter:
- Define ‘ideology’
-What is the FUNCTION of IDEOLOGIES in society?
- How do IDEOLOGIES BENEFIT people/society?
- How do IDEOLOGIES HARM people/society?
Four functions of Ideology
Problems presented by Ideologies
Re-cap Marxism
Ideology and Marx
Ruiling class ideology
Reinforces Class Conscioiusness
Gramsci -
- Hegemony
Dual Consciousness
Organic Intellectuals
Nationalism
Define the term, examples included
Claims of nationalism
Reading and summative task
KARL MANNHEIM: IDEOLOGY & UTOPIA
PARTIAL or ONE-SIDED WORLDVIEWS
ideological Thought vs Utopian Thought
Free Flowing Intelligencia
Total World View
Feminism and Ideology
Reading and summative task
Summary Slide
Assessment is included in the booklet
Sample answer/essay included in the booklet
Final consolidation and mind-mapping activities also included in the booklet
This pack contains TWO Lesson
Lesson1 - Religious Organisation and NRMs - accompanied by a 28 page booklet
Lesson 2 - The Growth of NRMs - just the PowerPoint
Lesson 2 - The Growth of NRMs is FREE - the lesson is an older version and does not have a booklet. However, the content is great and the lesson is of a high standard.
**Lesson 1 covers:
Starter / session 1 -
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Students are given an New Religious Movement - they then are to work in small groups to research the NRM in preparation for class presentations. - you are free to adapt and use this task as you see fit.
RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS
ERNST TROELTSCH ‘Sects and Churches’
Richard Neibuhr Denominations and Cults
Each type of religious organisation is then explored in more detail:
Sects
Case study: The People’s Temple
Denominations
Case study data included in PP
Cults
NRMS / New Religious Movements
World Rejecting
World Accomidating
World Affirming
Evaluation of Wallis’ perspective
Stark and Bainbrigde- Cults and Sects
Definitions provided for CULT / Sect, and examples
Audience Cults
Client Cults
Cultic Movements - Scientology mini-case study
Assessment:
The lesson / booklet contain several consolidation and revision activities.
There is a 10-mark assessment attached to this PowerPoint/content that teachers can set as an in-class or homework assignment.
Lesson 2 - Growth of NRMS covers:
Margninality
Relative Deprivation
Social Change
Self-identity
The Dynamics of NRMS / How they Grow
The Protestant effect
Death of the leader
Stark / Bainbridge - The Sectarian Cycle
Schism
Initial Fervour
Denominatioanlism
Establishment
Further Schism
Conversionist Sect
Adventist Sect
Globalisation
post-Modernity
individuals
Consumerism
Heelas - New Age & Modernity
source of Identity
Sense of certainty in a time of anomie
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces FUNCATIONALISM, and an accompanying booklet.
The pack also contains a a consolidation test to test student knowledge at the end of the session.
The lessons introduces students to:
Introduction to Social Institutions
What is a ‘theory’?
Definition of ‘structural theories’
Definition of Conflict and Consensus theories
Functionalism
definition - Structural/Consensus theory
Social Cohesion
Social Control
The Organic Analogy
Tasks based around the above topics
Consolidation quiz with answers provided.
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
This is a comprenhsive and detailed look at the Functionalist view of Education.
All resources are colourful, supported with image and video resources and are engaging for year 12 and 13 students. They offer lots of discussion points.
This pack contains
46-slide PowerPoint presentation (one formatted for for PC and one for Mac)
Student booklet to accompany lessons
Sample response
Mark scheme
Assessment materials
Built in assessment
Content:
Re-cap of Funcationalism - starter
The Funcation of education
Brief history of education in the UK - discussion of the Industrial Revolution as a pivot point
Durkheim:
Transmission of norms/values
Social Solidarity
Talcott Parsons:
Focal Socialising Agent
Paticularistic/Ascribed standards and Universalistic Standards
The Bridge
School as a meritocracy
Points for and against this argument
David and Moore: Selection and Role Allocation / Inequality is necessary
Built in assessment, planning, writing and marking exercises.
This resource pack is comprehensive.
This pack covers Dark Side of the Family: Domestic Abuse - Radical Feminist, Materialist perspectives
The PowerPoint covers:
Definition: domestic violence
What do sociologists say?
Kathryn Coleman
What does Domestic Violence occur?
Radical Feminist Explanation
Materialist Explanation
Plenary - 10 mark assessment
This pack also contains:
Handout/booklet to accompany the PowerPoint - students use this in class, it contains all info they need
Assessment handout
This pack can be used to introduce any DOCUMENATRY module for both Film and Media studies A Level courses.
This pack contains a 40-slide PowerPoint AND an accompanying YouTube video that covers the following topics/content
PART I -
What is a documentary - Student starter task: define ‘documentary’
Discussion of how uses of key elements may differ from narrative film
Student experiences with documentary
Types of Documenaty (task)
Technical conventions of Documentary (task)
True/false / discussion task
Introduction to Bill Nichols and ‘Documentary Modes’
Short research task - students given one ‘mode’ each and then asked to research for 10 mins - feedback to the class
Discussion for each of Nichols’ Modes
Polemic
Expository
Observational
Participatory
Reflexive
Performative
PART II -
John Grieson on what a documentary is
‘Edge of Reality’ - dealing with actuality; the real
Task - comparing the represenation of WWI in narrative film (Paths of Glory) with documentary film (They Shall Never Grow Old)
Slides are included that go through each clip and consolidate the key points
Fictional Actors / Social Actors
PLenary: this is to be added but suggest task is:
Research the documentary that you and your students will be studying for your course - note down:
Documentary mode
Conventions used etc
This pack contains a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet
This lesson is designed to be student led and contains a student presentation task - the price of this pack reflects this
Contents:
Starter
Students to discuss attitudes towards crime, punishment, government policy
REALISM vs SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM - defined
REALISM - definition expanded upon
RIGHT REALISM
Define, examples and short video summarising Charles Murray's perspective
LEFT REALISM
Define, examples and a short video
Presentation tasks
Each group will produce a poster presentation on one of the following:
RIGHT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
RIGHT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
LEFT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
LEFT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
Your presentation must include KEY CONCEPTS, CLEAR EXPLANATIONS, NAMED RESEARCH and an EVALUATION
This pack contains a 29-slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying student work booklet.
The lesson covers:
PART I:
Starter Task - Brief re-cap of Functionalism
[The re-cap is a 12 - slide summary of the FUNCTIONALIST perspective. This can be cut down, removed of edited to suit your learners needs]
Definitions: Socialisation and Social Control
Is Crime Inevitable? - Crime as inevitable and universalistic
Anomie
The Positive Functions of Crime
Boundary Maintainance
Dramatisation of Evil and ‘folk devils’
Task
Adaptations and Change
Kingsley Davis - Crime as a ‘safety valve’
Bed Polsky - channeling of sexual desires
Albert Cohen
Deviance as a warning sign’
Crime and Deviance - creates jobs in society
Management and regulation of deviancy
Evaluation and Critique of the points/perspectives covered above
Series of consolidation tasks - mind maps, essay and comprehension questions, writing tasks, key terms.
PART II:
Merton’s ‘Strain Theory’
Define: Strain Theory
Structural factors leading to crime
Cultural factors leading to crime
Case study: American Dream/Wall St. crash
Five type of Anomie:
Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion
Evaluation and Critique of ‘Strain Theory’ studied in this session