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 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 28-slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying 18-page student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter - Strain Theory - RE-CAP [this is an option part of the lesson]
Structural vs. Cultural factors
Albert Cohen
What is a ‘sub culture’
Status Frustration
Evaluation of Strain Theory
Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Cloward & Ohlin
Criminal subcultures
Conflict subcultures
Retreatist subcultures
Case study: The Chicago School
Reading / comprehension task
terms covered by this task: Cultural transition theory, Differential associated theory, Social disorganisation theory
Evaluation / critiques of Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Walter B. Miller - SIX Focal Concerns
Each of the six are defined and feed in to a student task:
Excitement
Smartness
Trouble
Fatalism
Toughness
Autonomy
Task - watch the music video for '*Ill Manors = Plan B* an d read the lyrics -
students are to identify how the song addresses the focal concerns, and expresses the frusrations felt by working class groups, and why this frustration will lead to crime e.g.
"Who closed down the community centre, I used to be a member, I used to kill time there, what will I do now till September? Schools out, rules out, get your bl**dy tools out"
I found this task to be very useful as it is contemporary, British and speaks to all of the issues raised by Miller et al.
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This task can be cut out of the lesson if not needed. **
David Matza - Delinquency and Drift
Mesner & Rosenfeld - Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Short reading/comphrension task on Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Assessment:
4 and 6 mark questions for students to plan and write responses to.
Mark scheme / sample answer information provided to help students understand the expected outcomes of these types of questions
The booklet contains additional assessment and revision materials
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 one 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, one booklet (to be completed by students; the booklet also contains several consolidation activities) and a starter task
Lesson:
Starter/Re-cap/revisiting activity - definitions of religion
Age
Gender
Class
Ethnicity
For each of the four groups listed above there are 2-3 slides for each.
The slides cover key arguments, contain graphs and statistics to support points, key terms are highlighted and theorists are cited.
Consolidation activity - students to read one of four articles that cover each of the groups studied in the lesson. Each student annotated, draws out quotes and key arguments and then contributes to a group ‘wiki’ page. The ‘wiki’ page can be created in Teams, or it can be created on paper, shared with the teacher and then scanned in to one comprehensive revision resource.
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 24 question quiz that tests student knowledge of DEMOGRAPHY.
The quiz is scored out of 37 points and is perfect for use as a starter task and/or plenary task.
Included:
QUIZ
Answer sheet
This pack contains a 25 question quiz that tests student knowledge of Educational Achievement: Girls
The pack contains:
QUIZ
Answer sheet
This quiz is a great Starter Task / Plenary.
This pack contains a 20-question multiple choice quiz that will test your students knowledge and understanding of RESEARCH METHODS
The quiz is perfect for a Starter Task/Plenary when you reach the end of the RESEARCH METHODS module
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 FEMINISM, and an accompanying booklet.
The lessons introduces students to:
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Definition of Feminism
Class discussion: what do students already know? What is their understanding of feminism?
Discussion and definition of Patriarchy
Feminism as a Structural/Conflict theory
Brief history of Feminism - tasks included
“Good Wife Guide”
Equal Pay Act
Contraceptive pill
Feminism in the 70s, 80s
Women in the media
Bechdel Test
Plenary: task and discussion
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 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 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 Powerpoint introduces students to EDUCATION.
Included: PC and MAC formatted lesson, booklet/handout. Link to documentary
This lesson will contextualise the study of education through the following tasks/areas:
Student experiences of education tasks - students discuss and share their experiences
Education and the four areas of study
Class differences
Role of education
Why some pupils achieve more than others
Role of education and its role in society
The student experience in school
Impact of Government policy
Cultural Capital
Cultural Deprivation
Plenary/conslidation task: David Harewood’s Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minster documentary - note taking and discussion tasks
The lesson is 23 slides long.
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 contains a 31 slide PowerPoint covering both INTERNAL and EXTRENAL factors.
Poor Literacy
Globalisation and the Decline of male jobs
Feminisation of Education
Laddish sub-cultures
The Moral Panic about boys
Shortage of Male primary school teachers
Mini-assessment plenary
11-page work booklet
This pack has been designed for the AQA spec.
This pack contains the following:
Complete lesson:
Starter task (re-cap key terms)
What is a Questionnaire?
Types of questions: closed/open
Strengths of questionnaires
Weaknesses of questionnaires
Pilot Studies
Plenary assessment tasks
Booklet
Sample response to exam question
This pack contains the following:
Observations complete lesson covers:
Observation starter task
Two short ‘observations’ video tasks
Discussion re: questionnaires & Interviews vs. Observations
Types of Observations (each explored individually)
Covert/Overt
Non-Participant
Participant
Strengths of observations
Limitations of observations
Case Study - Football Hooligans - documentary available on Youtube
Tasks for completion following documentary screening
Plenary - observation research task - students to research and present a case-study based on one of four existing sociological studies.
Handout, documentary links and all resources are included.
This pack covers and contains:
an introduction to the Research Methods in Context exam question
Re-cap of Research Methods key terms/factors
Exemplar question - task and teacher led discussion of how to answer the question
Exemplar question - task; students to repeat the previous task using another question
Sample response anlaysis task
Extended Research Methods in Context plenary activities
Assessment that can be set as homework (with sample answer)
In-depth student handout - gapped section, re-cap of Research Methods, activities and sample response(s)
Methods in Context textbook scans
Methods in context CRIB SHEET
All resources needed
This lesson is an introduction to the Nature Vs. Nurture debate and has been designed for the AQA specification.
The lessons covers:
Gender Socialisation starter quiz
**Starter tasks **- questions about nature/nuture. This is designed to foster debate and talking point before we explore the debate in more detail
What are genes?
Defining: Nature/Nurture
Student task to expand upon understanding
Arguments in favour of nature: Darwin, Watson
Sociological evidence: Feral Children
Documentary / video links included - tasks to follow screening of short documentary about feral children [Oxana Malaya]
Genetic Evidence: separated twins: The Jim Twins
Nature/Nurture ‘evidence’ task
Essay question - includes question, item and an essay plan.