BUNDLE – AQA GCSE Sociology Crime & Deviance Topic 3 – Explanations of Crime (SAVE 25%)

L1 AQA GCSE SOCIOLOGY: Crime and Deviance - The social construction of crime and deviance (Becker)

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap the difference between crime and deviance and the interactionist view of society, explain Becker’s view of the social construction of crime using his key study, and analyse and evaluate his views of crime and deviance.

•Covers the following key terms: Master status, Deviant career, Deviant subculture.

•Covers the following sociologists: Becker.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Crime – Deviance – Extreme deviance (extension) – Mild deviance (extension) – The social construction of crime and deviance – Social construction; socially constructed; social construct – Labelling – Self-fulfilling prophecy – Interactionism vs Structuralism – Negative sanction vs positive sanction – Agency of social control – Agent of social control.

•Includes a key study reading sheet on Becker (Outsiders, 1963) with structured comprehension questions and modelled answers.

•Includes a THINK – PAIR – SHARE key term memorisation activity with metacognitive tips for understanding and remembering definitions.

•Includes a structuralism vs interactionism recap tick table with real-life examples, images and animated answers.

•Includes DEEPER THINKING stretch and challenge prompts throughout for analysis and evaluation.

•INCLUDES TWO ‘PERSPECTIVE’ 4 MARKERS WITH SUCCESS CRITERIA, MODELLED ANSWERS AND ALTERNATIVE ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS

•INCLUDES A KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON.

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•Pedagogical strategies used: retrieval practice, explicit vocabulary instruction, modelling, worked examples, scaffolding, metacognitive prompts, adaptive teaching and assessment opportunities.

•RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.

L2 AQA GCSE Sociology: Crime and Deviance Topic 3 Explanations of Crime– Merton’s Strain Theory

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe Merton’s strain theory of crime, identify Merton’s five adaptations to the strain of anomie, explain how the strain of anomie might lead to criminal and deviant behaviour and evaluate the usefulness of Merton’s strain theory for explaining crime and deviance.

•Covers the following key terms: The American Dream, means, legitimate, socially approved or legitimate means, socially approved goals, strain, anomie, the strain of anomie, conformity/conformist, innovation/innovator, ritualism/ritualist, retreatism/retreatist, rebellion/rebel, social structure (extension) and structural factors.

•Covers the following sociologist: Merton (functionalist).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: functionalism – value consensus – social order – consensus theory – structuralism vs interactionism – cultural factors – structural factors – determinism – meritocracy.

•Includes a retrieval starter on sources of data on crime with a 3-mark ‘identify and describe’ question, success criteria and modelled answers.

•Includes think–pair–share key term work, a fill-in-the-gaps activity, progress-check questions and deeper thinking tasks for stretch and challenge.

•Includes an exam-style 4-mark ‘perspective’ item question with success criteria and modelled answers.

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•INCLUDES A KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON.

•RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.

L3 AQA GCSE Sociology: Crime and Deviance Topic 3 - Explanations of crime (Cohen’s subcultural theory)

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify the main aspects of Cohen's subcultural theory, explain how it accounts for criminal and deviant behaviour, and evaluate its usefulness.

•Covers the following key terms: status frustration, alternative status hierarchy, criminal or deviant subculture, subcultural theory (of crime and deviance).

•Covers the following sociologist: Cohen (with comparison to Merton as stretch and challenge).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: subculture - cultural deprivation - functionalism - structuralism - consensus theory/perspective - value consensus - fatalism vs meritocracy - deferred vs immediate gratification - present-time vs future-time orientation - restricted vs elaborate code - cultural capital - structuralism vs interactionism.

•Additional lesson features: retrieval-practice DO NOW recapping 3-mark exam practice on the social construction of deviance and sources of crime data; explicit vocabulary instruction with a THINK-PAIR-SHARE key terms activity; a source-based reading and questioning task on Cohen; a flow chart progress check on Cohen’s subcultural theory; success criteria for the 4-mark 'perspective' item question with answers

•ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•Includes a key terms sheet with definitions for the lesson.

•Resources can be found at the end of the PPT.

L4 AQA GCSE Sociology Crime and Deviance: Explanations of crime – Socialisation, Peer Groups and Subcultures, Capitalism and Relative Deprivation

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and describe the factors that might cause criminal and deviant behaviour, and explain how socialisation, peer groups and subcultures, structural factors (including capitalism) and relative deprivation might cause crime and deviance.

•Students also recap how labelling, status frustration and anomie might cause crime.

•Students also evaluate the usefulness of sociological explanations of crime and deviance by considering psychological and biological factors.

•Covers the following key terms: Relative deprivation and Peer group.

•Covers the following sociologists and perspectives: Merton, Cohen, Becker, Murray, Farrington, Functionalism, The New Right, Marxism and Interactionism.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should already know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Socialisation – Primary socialisation – Secondary socialisation – Agencies of socialisation – Agents of socialisation – Labelling – Master status – Self-fulfilling prophecy – Deviant career – Deviant subculture – Subculture – Status frustration – Alternative status hierarchy – Anomie – Strain – Goals and means – Structural factors – Cultural factors – Structuralism vs Interactionism – Capitalism – Means of production – Exploitation – Instrumental and expressive roles – Social inequality.

•Includes a teaching-to-all ‘show on your fingers’ application activity using real case studies

•12-mark exam practice with planning success criteria

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•Resources can be found at the end of the PowerPoint.