AQA A-level Sociology Families: Topic 1 Couples – The Traditional Domestic Division of Labour

• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students to define the domestic division of labour and the main types of conjugal roles (segregated and joint), and to explain, analyse and evaluate functionalist views of a traditional domestic division of labour, referring to Parsons’ (1955) instrumental and expressive roles.

Covers the following key terms:

• Domestic labour 

• Domestic division of labour 

• Conjugal roles

• Conjugal (extension)

• Conjugal relationships (extension)  

• Joint conjugal roles

• Segregated conjugal roles 

• Instrumental role 

• Expressive role

• Conjugal relationships (extension)  

• Pre-industrial society (extension)

• Industrial Revolution (extension)

• Consumption (extension)

• Production (extension)

Covers the following sociologists:

• Bott

• Parsons 

• Young and Wilmott 

• Pahl  (extension)

• Makes reference to the following key terms students might know: Nuclear family – Family structure/type – Family diversity – Agents of socialisation – Primary socialisation – Canalisation – Value consensus – Nature vs nurture – The New Right – Feminism

  
  

• INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON
  

• INCLUDES A THINK–PAIR–SHARE KEY TERMS ACTIVITY

• INCLUDES PROGRESS CHECK (AfL) AND DEEPER THINKING STRETCH QUESTIONS

• STARTER ACTIVITY (DO NOW) GETS STUDENTS DISCUSSING IMAGES OF GENDER ROLES IN THE FAMILY – REVISITED IN THE PLENARY
  

• ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT