AQA GCSE Sociology Crime and Deviance: Public Debates – Media coverage of crime

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•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the two public debates over the media coverage of crime (whether the media its biased in its depiction of crime and where the media leads to crime) explain the arguments for and against these.

•Covers the following key terms: Mass media, Agenda-setting, News Value, Moral Panic, Sensationalist reporting (extension) and Deviancy amplification spiral.

•Covers the following sociologists and studies: Marxists, Ditton and Duffy (extension), Anderson (extension) and Ferguson (extension).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Crime – Deviance – Social control – Secondary socialisation – Agents of socialisation – Agency of socialisation – Labelling – Self-fulfilling prophecy – Folk devils – Relative deprivation – Youth subcultures – Criminal justice system – Official crime statistics.

•Includes a Think, Pair, Share retrieval starter on the key terms and definitions, with strategies for understanding and memorising them.

•Includes a NEWS VALUES APPLICATION TASK using five real, up-to-date news reports, where students identify the news values that might have influenced each story (answers included).

•Includes a visual explanation of the deviancy amplification spiral.

•Deeper Thinking prompts

•Includes three 3 markers ‘identify and describe’

•ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•Includes key term and definitions sheet for the lesson (including the eleven news values with examples).

•RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the two public debates over the media coverage of crime (whether the media its biased in its depiction of crime and where the media leads to crime) explain the arguments for and against these.

•Covers the following key terms: Mass media, Agenda-setting, News Value, Moral Panic, Sensationalist reporting (extension) and Deviancy amplification spiral.

•Covers the following sociologists and studies: Marxists, Ditton and Duffy (extension), Anderson (extension) and Ferguson (extension).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Crime – Deviance – Social control – Secondary socialisation – Agents of socialisation – Agency of socialisation – Labelling – Self-fulfilling prophecy – Folk devils – Relative deprivation – Youth subcultures – Criminal justice system – Official crime statistics.

•Includes a Think, Pair, Share retrieval starter on the key terms and definitions, with strategies for understanding and memorising them.

•Includes a NEWS VALUES APPLICATION TASK using five real, up-to-date news reports, where students identify the news values that might have influenced each story (answers included).

•Includes a visual explanation of the deviancy amplification spiral.

•Deeper Thinking prompts

•Includes three 3 markers ‘identify and describe’

•ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•Includes key term and definitions sheet for the lesson (including the eleven news values with examples).

•RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT