BUNDLE - AQA GCSE Sociology Families Unit (SAVE 30%)

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21 LESSONS ON THE FOLLOWING:

Topic 1 - Different family types (excludes alternatives to the family)

L1 AQA GCSE Sociology Families: Family forms - Different family type
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify the difference between a family and a household, describe the different family types that exist in Britain and consider how and why ‘the family’ is changing.

•Covers the following key terms: Family, Household, Cohabitation, Family form, Family diversity, Nuclear family, Lone-parent family, Same-sex family, Reconstituted family, Extended family (horizontally and vertically), Empty-nest family, Traditional, Contemporary society (extension), Homosexuality (extension) and Heterosexuality (extension)

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know: Gender - Sex

•Includes a teaching to all activity

•ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•Includes a carousel activity with a capture sheet on the different family forms

•Includes up-to-date ONS graphs (Families and households in the UK, 2025) as a statistics activity

•Includes think, pair, share discussion tasks and deeper thinking analysis questions

•No key sociologists are covered in this lesson

•INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON

•Pedagogical approaches used: retrieval practice, explicit vocabulary instruction, modelling, worked examples, scaffolding, metacognitive prompts (think, pair, share), adaptive teaching through extension terms, and stretch and challenge deeper thinking questions

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

L2 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families – Alternatives to the family

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify the different alternative households people might live in, explain why people live in these alternatives to the family, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of each.

•Covers the following key terms: Alternative to the family, One-person household, Commune, Kibbutz, Residential home, House shares / shared households, Kin, Kinship, Welfare state (extension).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family – Household.

•Includes a DO NOW think, pair, share retrieval activity on the key terms and definitions.

•Includes an information-gathering carousel activity with detailed information sheets on the kibbutz, residential homes, house shares and one-person households.

•Includes two differentiated versions of the main worksheet (standard and DEEPER THINKING) to support adaptive teaching.

•Includes a consolidation activity matching features to each alternative to the family.

•Includes DEEPER THINKING stretch and challenge prompts throughout.

•Includes links to videos for further information.

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

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

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

L3 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families - Families in a global context
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe family forms and relationships outside of the UK, explain how families outside the UK differ to families in the UK, and consider the impact of the different family forms that exist outside the UK.

•Compares contemporary family diversity in the UK with family life in China, South Asia, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.

•Covers the following key terms: Global context, Matriarchal, Matriarch. Breadwinner (extension), Home-maker (extension), Division of labour (extension)

•Covers the following sociologists: Parsons, Bott and the Rapoports

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Kin - Kinship - Cohabitation - Extended family - Vertically extended family - Patriarchy - Gender - Socialisation - Primary socialisation - Family form/structure/type - Nuclear family - Lone-parent family - Same-sex family - Reconstituted family - Empty-nest family - Alternatives to the family

•Includes a DO NOW retrieval task on family forms and alternatives to the family, with animated answers

•Includes explicit vocabulary instruction with key terms

•Includes an ACTIVATE task using an information sheet, with worksheet questions, and modelled sentence starters and success criteria for extended writing

•Includes DEEPER THINKING prompts for stretch and challenge throughout

•Teaching and learning strategies used: retrieval practice, explicit vocabulary instruction, modelling and worked examples, scaffolding, adaptive teaching, metacognitive prompts, stretch and challenge, and a spiral curriculum approach that revisits prior key terms

•Assessment for learning built in through CHECK, CORRECT AND/OR DEVELOP ANSWERS slides, success criteria and an exam-style question

•INCLUDES ‘DESCRIBE’ 3 MARKER

•INCLUDES FULL INFORMATION TEXT ON FAMILIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT FOR READING AND REFERENCE

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITY AND STARTER INCLUDED

•Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

Topic 2 - Couples/ The domestic division of labour

L4 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 2 Couples - The Traditional Domestic Division of Labour
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students define the domestic division of labour, conjugal roles and joint and segregated conjugal roles, explain the domestic division of labour in traditional families, and consider functionalist and feminist views of it.

•Covers the following key terms: Domestic labour, Domestic division of labour, Conjugal roles, Conjugal, Joint conjugal roles, Segregated conjugal roles, Instrumental role, Expressive role, Breadwinner, Dual-career family, Child rearing, Traditional, Conventional nuclear family, Cereal packet family (extension), Social control (extension), Pre-industrial society (extension), Industrial Revolution (extension), Consumption (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Bott, Parsons (1955) and Oakley (1982).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know to promote a spiral curriculum: Family – Family structure/type – Nuclear family – Traditional [society] – Family diversity – Agency/agents of socialisation – Primary socialisation – Canalisation – Organic analogy – Nature vs Nurture – Instincts – Innate – Socialisation – Value consensus – Gender – Sex – Family form – Functionalism – Consensus theory – Conflict theory – Social institution – Patriarchy – Feminism – Gender roles – Gender socialisation.

•Retrieval starter recapping marketisation with modelled 4 marker success criteria.

•Think–Pair–Share and Teaching to All activities.

•Progress check questions on instrumental and expressive roles.

•Deeper thinking questions for stretch and challenge.

•4 marker ‘perspective’ exam question with detailed scaffolding

•Gap-fill consolidation task on conjugal roles.

INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON.

ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.

L5 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 2 Couples - The Domestic Division of Labour in Contemporary Families

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the symmetrical family argued to exist in contemporary families, explain the reasons for the symmetrical family and consider feminist criticisms of its existence in contemporary society.

•Two 4 marker item A questions on the traditional domestic division of labour (last lesson) with student friendly mark-scheme for one of them.

•Includes a teaching to all activity.

•Includes deeper thinking prompts for stretch and challenge on every main task.

•Covers the following key terms: Contemporary society, The symmetrical family, The new man, Double shift / dual burden, Triple shift, Dual-career family. Dual-earner / worker family (extension), Geographic mobility (extension), Commercialisation of housework (extension), Child rearing and Life expectancy (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Functionalist Young and Wilmott, feminist Oakley, feminist Duncombe and Marsden, feminist Hochschild.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: The domestic division of labour – Conjugal roles – Joint conjugal roles – Gender roles – Expressive role – Instrumental role – Domestic labour – Breadwinner – Dual-earner family – Child rearing – Primary socialisation – Canalisation – Equal Pay Act – Gender differences in educational achievement.

•Pedagogical approaches used: retrieval practice, adaptive teaching and scaffolding, dual coding, questioning for deeper thinking, spiral curriculum links, and assessment for learning through check, correct and develop your answers slides.

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


L6 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 2 Couples - Power in the family (incl. Domestic Violence)
• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify examples of what power might look like in families, describe how power in families might have changed from traditional to contemporary families, and consider how power might be abused in families.

• Covers the following key terms: Power, Domestic abuse/violence Money management system, Allowance system, Pooling.

• Covers the following sociologists: Edgell, Pahl, Vogler and the Opinium Research survey.

• Includes a DO NOW retrieval starter recapping Topic 1: different family forms, alternatives to the family and families in a global context.

• Includes two video clips as activities on domestic abuse, with a trigger warning slide for sensitive content.

• Includes a 3 mark ‘identify and describe’ exam question with success criteria and student-friendly markscheme

• Includes deeper thinking questions on the feminist explanation of domestic abuse, and a teaching to all consolidation discussion.

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

• INCLUDES A KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON

• ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT


L7 AQA GCSE Sociology Families: Topic 2 Couples - Perspectives on Conjugal roles - Functionalist, Marxist and feminist views

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of society, explain each perspective's view of conjugal roles, and apply this knowledge to plan and attempt a 12 marker.

•Covers the following key terms: Conjugal roles, Segregated conjugal roles, Domestic division of labour, Instrumental role, Expressive role, Domestic labour, Emotional labour, Dual burden, Triple shift, Patriarchy, Gender socialisation, Symmetrical family, Family diversity, Social order.

•Covers the following sociologists: Parsons, Oakley (1974), Boulton (1983), Ferri and Smith (1996), Allen and Crow (2001), Duncombe and Marsden, plus Office for National Statistics data.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Conjugal roles, Segregated conjugal roles, Domestic division of labour, Instrumental role, Expressive role, Domestic labour, Emotional labour, Dual burden, Triple shift, Patriarchy, Gender socialisation, Symmetrical family, Family diversity, Social order.Norms - Values - Primary socialisation, Nuclear family, Value consensus, Organic analogy, Capitalism, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, Ideology, False class consciousness, Consensus vs conflict theories.

•INCLUDES 12 MARKER PLANNING AND WRITING TASKS WITH SUCCESS CRITERIA AND MODEL INTRO AND PARAGRAPH

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•INCLUDES A TEACHING TO ALL ACTIVITY.

•STARTER ACTIVITY RECAPS FUNCTIONALIST, MARXIST AND FEMINIST THEORIES OF SOCIETY.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.

•Adaptive teaching: layered questioning, hints and sentence starters allow the same task to be accessed at different levels.

•DEEPER THINKING prompts throughout

Topic 3 - The functions of the family

L8 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Functionalist view (Murdock)

  • Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap functionalist views of society and identify Murdock’s four functions of the family, explain using examples how the family might perform each function, and criticise and analyse them by considering how they might benefit individuals and society as a whole.

  • Covers the following key terms: Sexual function (of the family), Reproductive function (of the family), Education function (of the family), Economic function (of the family), Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Bigamy

  • Covers the following sociologists: Murdock and his key study

  • Makes reference to the following key terms students might know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Function/role (of something) – Social institutions (systems or structures) – Symmetrical family – Dual burden (double/second shift) – Dual career families – Triple shift – Emotion work – Child-rearing – Primary socialisation – Conjugal roles – Segregated conjugal roles – Joint conjugal roles – Expressive role – Instrumental role – Conjugal relationships – Breadwinner – Functionalism – Consensus theory – Structural theory – Value consensus – Organic/biological analogy – The domestic division of labour – Traditional families – Contemporary families

  • Starter activity recaps functionalist views of society with a true or false retrieval task, with answers.

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

  • Includes an around the room card sort on Murdock’s four functions

  • Includes eight image based progress checks for whole class assessment for learning.

  • Includes 4 marker item question practice with success criteria, sentence starters and an extension question.

  • Includes deeper thinking prompts and stretch and challenge tasks throughout to support adaptive teaching.

  • ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITY AND DO NOW INCLUDED

  • RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

L9 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Functionalist view (Parsons)

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify, explain, analyse and evaluate Parsons’ two irreducible functions of the family: primary socialisation and the stabilisation of adult personalities (the Warm Bath Theory).

•Lesson objectives: to identify functionalist Parsons’ two irreplaceable functions of the [nuclear] family; to explain how the family might perform these two functions; to analyse and evaluate the two functions of the family identified by Parsons.

•Covers the following key terms: Stabilisation of adult personalities (the Warm Bath Theory), the Warm Bath Theory analogy and Idealisation.

•Covers the following sociologists: Parsons (with reference to feminist and Marxist Warm Bath Theory).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should already know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Breadwinner – Patriarchy – Exploit – Expressive role – Instrumental role – The division of labour – Emotional labour – Domestic labour – Functionalism – Value consensus – Consensus theory – Social cohesion – Organic analogy – Culture – Norms – Values – Socialisation – Primary socialisation – Conventional nuclear family – Family form – Traditional domestic division of labour – Segregated conjugal roles – Agency of socialisation – Agent of socialisation.

•Retrieval practice: a DO NOW starter recapping Murdock’s four functions of the family

•Modelling and worked examples for an item 4 marker to show students what a full response looks like.

•DEEPER THINKING questions

•4 marker ’perspective’ question with detailed scaffolding to help students answer it.

ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES AND DO NOW INCLUDED.

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

L10 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Marxist view (Zaretsky)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap Marxist views of society, explain Marxist Zaretsky’s view of the functions of the family and other ways the family might serve capitalism, and apply this knowledge to exam questions.

•Covers the following key terms: Socialism, Communism, The Marxist Warm Bath Theory, Alienation, Unit of consumption, Private sphere (extension) and Public sphere (extension).

•Covers the following sociologist: Marxist Zaretsky.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family form – Conventional nuclear family – Bourgeoisie – Proletariat – Economic function – Stabilisation of adult personalities (The Warm Bath Theory) – The traditional domestic division of labour – The contemporary domestic division of labour – Capitalism – Marxism – Profit – Social class – Ownership – Exploit – Inequality – Means of production – Structuralism vs Interactionism – Conflict vs Consensus theory – Agency and agents of socialisation – Systems – Processes – Agency and agents of social control – Culture – Norms – Values – Social processes – Social structures – Positive sanctions – Negative sanctions – Socialisation – Primary socialisation – Secondary socialisation.

•Starter activity recaps Marxist views of society, with key terms and sentence starters for support.

•Includes an information sheet on Zaretsky’s study of the family with structured questions,

•Includes a progress check table on how the family meets the needs of capitalism  - 3 DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THIS TABLE

•Includes DEEPER THINKING tasks throughout

•Assessment for learning: Exam-style practice (4 marker perspective question) with success criteria, modelled examples

•INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON

•ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT

L11 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Feminist view (Delphy and Leonard)

•  Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap feminist views of the family, explain the feminist view of the function of the family using examples, and criticise the feminist view of the family as a social institution.

•  Covers the following sociologists: Delphy and Leonard

•  Makes reference to the following key terms students SHOULD know to promote a spiral curriculum: Gender roles – Primary socialisation – Canalisation – Patriarchy – Conflict theory – Structural theory – Symmetrical family – Dual burden – Triple shift – Emotion work – Traditional domestic division of labour – Conventional nuclear family – Segregated conjugal roles.

•  INCLUDES A KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS OF THE FEMINIST STRANDS (optional key terms to introduce students to)

•  Includes a perspective 4 marker on Delphy and Leonard study with detailed success criteria

•  Includes 12 marker with detailed paragraph success criteria

•  Includes retrieval practice, DO NOW starter, PROGRESS CHECK, DEEPER THINKING and CONSOLIDATE activities.

•  Includes a teaching to all activity with deeper thinking tasks tasks.

•  ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

Topic 4 - Family diversity (excludes consequences of divorce)

L13 AQA GCSE Sociology Families Topic 4 – Divorce (Explaining the Increase in Divorce)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the changes in the pattern of divorce since 1945, explain the different reasons for these changes and consider the extent to which each explanation accounts for the increase in divorce.

•Covers the following key terms: Secularisation, Stigma, Empty shell marriage.

•Covers the following sociologists and evidence: Dennis, Fletcher, Hart, Goode, Mitchell & Goody, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the 1969 Divorce Reform Act.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know to promote a spiral curriculum: Function (of an institution) – Individualism – Collectivism – Contemporary society – Consumerism – Desertion – Irretrievable – Adultery – Dual burden – Lone-parent family – Reconstituted family.

•Covers six explanations for the increase in divorce: changes in the law, declining stigma and changing attitudes, secularisation, rising expectations of marriage, changes in the position of women and changes in society.

•Includes a Do Now retrieval starter using a divorce, marriage and remarriage graph, plus deeper thinking prompts throughout.

•Includes an optional slide on recent trends in divorce (age, teenage marriage and social class) with a Think, Pair, Share activity.

•Includes a recap of the two types of 4 mark item question (Item A/C and Item B/D),

•Includes item 4 marker (Item A/D)with detailed success criteria student friendly mark-scheme

•ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITY INCLUDED

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

•Stretch and challenge – an extension question and a Deeper Thinking sheet for higher attaining students.

•PRINT TABLE IN A3 - Two versions

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

L14 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity Divorce – Consequences and Theories of Divorce
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and explain the consequences of divorce for husband and wife, children, the extended family and society as a whole, and recap and apply functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of divorce.

•Covers the following key terms: Radical feminist (extension), Liberal feminist (extension) and Marxist feminist (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Bohannan, Rodgers & Pryor, Rosenfeld, Hart, Parsons, Fletcher and Millett.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should already know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Kin – Kinship – Extended family – Horizontally extended family – Vertically extended family – Reconstituted family – 1969 Divorce Reform Act – Gender pay gap – Secularisation – Functionalism – Structuralism vs Interactionism – Consensus vs Conflict approaches – Value consensus – Social institutions – Organic analogy – Social order – Social cohesion – Marxism – Social class – Proletariat – Ownership – Exploit – Inequality – Capitalism – Means of production – Bourgeoisie – Class struggle – Sex – Gender – Gender roles – Feminism – Patriarchy – Gender inequality – Canalisation – Gender socialisation.

•Starter DO NOW activity recaps prior knowledge of divorce through a TRUE or FALSE retrieval task.

•Recap sequence on functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of society before applying them to divorce.

•Includes a teaching to all activity, with DEEPER THINKING stretch and challenge prompts throughout.

•INCLUDES 12 MARKER with detailed scaffolding

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

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•Includes a trigger warning slide, as the lesson covers divorce and its consequences.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.

L15 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Changing patterns of marriage

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the modern patterns of marriage, explain the reasons for them and apply sociological perspectives to the family structures they might lead to.

•Covers the decline in first marriages, the decline in marriages in churches, the rise in the age of first marriage and the rise in remarriages and serial monogamy..

•Covers the following key terms: Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Bigamy, Serial monogamy, Re-marriage, Cohabitation.

•Covers the following sociologists: Bridebook, Woolley and Co Solicitors, Beck, Wilson, Sharpe, Chester, Fletcher and The New Right.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Stigma - Secularisation - Feminism - Functionalism - Cohabitation - Nuclear family - Marxism - Interactionism.

•Includes a mind-map activity (PRINT IN A3), true or false retrieval, think-pair-share vocabulary work, scenario cards and progress checks.

•Includes a teaching to all activity and deeper thinking stretch and challenge prompts throughout.

•Includes a Item A 4 marker with success criteria

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

L16 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Changing family patterns (reconstituted families, one-person households, dual career families, fertility and childbearing, lone-parent, same-sex couples, extended families and cohabitation rates):
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and describe the different changes to the conventional nuclear family, explain the reasons for these changes and consider the extent to which families are moving away from the conventional nuclear family.

•Covers the following examples of family diversity: lone-parent families, same-sex couples and families, one-person households, cohabitation, reconstituted families, dual-career families, birth, fertility and childbearing, and extended (beanpole) families.

•Covers the following key terms: The New Right, Dependent, Life expectancy, Fertility (extension), Childbearing age (extension), Birth/Fertility rates (extension), Contraception (extension), Beanpole family (extension), 'Living Apart Together' (LATs) (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Murray, Brannen, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Ferri and Smith, Jewson, Williams, Qureshi et al., Weeks, Stonewall, Duncan and Phillips, Renvoize, Fletcher and Parsons.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family diversity - Conventional nuclear family - Contemporary society - Life expectancy - Cohabitation - Secularisation - Stigma - Feminism - Dual-career family - Dual-worker/earner family - Homosexuality (extension) - Heterosexuality (extension).

•Adaptive teaching throughout: scaffolded tasks, sentence stems and success criteria, modelling and worked examples, and stretch and challenge through extension key terms and sociologists.

•Deeper Thinking' prompts

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

•Includes retrieval practice, progress checks (true or false) and a teaching to all information-gathering activity with a completed answer grid.

•Includes exam practice: 4-mark Item A/C questions and 12 marker with scaffolded success criteria

•INCLUDES A MODEL 12 MARK ANSWER WITH ANNOTATION ACTIVITY.

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

L17 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family diversity - The Rapoports and Reasons for Family Diversity

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe, explain, analyse and evaluate the Rapoports' five types of family diversity and the reasons for family diversity in the UK.

•Covers the following key terms: Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Arranged marriage, Bigamy, Organisational diversity, Cultural diversity, Social class diversity, Cohort/ generational diversity, Life course diversity, Family life course diversity, Secularisation, Life expectancy, Immigration and Pluralism.

•Covers the following sociologists: The Rapoports (1982), Chester (1985) and Goode (optional).

•Covers the following laws: 1969 Divorce Reform Act, 1970 Equal Pay Act and the 2013 Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family form/ structure/ type – Nuclear family – Conventional nuclear family – Lone-parent family – Vertically-extended family – Horizontally-extended family – Empty-nest family – Cohabitation – Same-sex family – Dual-career family – Conjugal roles – Family diversity – Contemporary society – Gender roles – Norms – Values – Culture.

•Includes 12 marker and 4 marker 'perspective' exam practice with detailed success criteria and sentence stems.

•Includes retrieval practice (DO NOW), progress check activities, a matching task, deeper thinking stretch and challenge questions and a teaching to all activity.

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

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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


L18 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Is the nuclear family still important?

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and describe arguments for and against the nuclear family still being important in modern Britain, and explain the evidence that supports each view.

•Covers the cereal packet image of the family and how the media present the conventional nuclear family as the ‘ideal’ family type.

•Lesson objectives: to identify arguments for and against the nuclear family still being important in modern Britain; to explain evidence that might support these views; to analyse and criticise the factors that contribute to the nuclear family being or not being important in modern Britain.

•Covers the following key terms: Cereal packet image of family, The conventional nuclear family, Mass media (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Oakley (1982).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Breadwinner – The conventional nuclear family – Family diversity – Conjugal roles – Gender stereotypes.

•thinking stretch and challenge prompts, and an optional discussion activity.

•Includes a 12 mark exam question with detailed paragraph success criteria

•Includes a video clip as an activity.

One activity requires pages for the AQA GCSE 9-1 Sociology Updated Edition by David Bown.

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

•Deeper thinking tasks

Topic 5 - Changes in the family

L19 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 5 - Changes in the family over time (structure, roles and function)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students describe how family structures and conjugal roles have changed over time (pre-industrial, industrial and contemporary) and explain how they might change in the future.

•Covers Young and Willmott's four-stage theory of the family, the symmetrical family and the principle of stratified diffusion.

•Covers the following key terms: Pre-industrial society, Industrial society, Contemporary society, Industries, Industrial revolution, Unit of production, Unit of consumption, Symmetrical family, Asymmetrical family, Asymmetrical, The principle of stratified diffusion, Home-centred, Work-centred, Child-centred. Agriculture (extension), Stratification system (extension) and Diffusion (extension)

•Covers the following sociologists: Young and Willmott, Parsons, Zaretsky, Murdock and the Rapoports

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Consumption - Extended family - Nuclear family - Joint and segregated conjugal roles - Commercialisation of housework (extension) - Means of production - Geographic mobility - Social mobility - Ascribed status - Achieved status - Private sphere (extension) - Public sphere - Leisure (extension) - Family diversity - Polygamy

•Includes perspective 4 marker with detailed scaffolding.

•Includes a teaching to all activity

•Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

•Starter is a retrieval activity on the Rappoports and family diversity

•ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES AND STARTER  INCLUDED

•Key term sheet for the lesson included

L20 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 5 - Changes in family relationships between family members (Parent-child relationships and wider kin)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students describe how parent-child relationships and people's relationships with their wider family have changed over time in Britain, explain the reasons for these changes and consider the impact these changes might have on individuals and society.

•Covers both parent-child relationships and relationships with wider (extended) kin in one full lesson.

•Covers the following key terms: Kin, Kinship, Extended kin/extended family/wider family, Boomerang children, Sandwich generation, Democratic/  egalitarian  relationships, Child-centred, Infant mortality, Boomerang children (extension), Sandwich generation (extension)

•Covers the following sociologists: Aries, Shorter, Young and Willmott (1957 and 1973), Parsons, Brannen, Bhatti, Pryor and Trinder, Charles et al. (2008a and 2008b), Scott and the Rapoports.

•Also refers to the 1918 Education Act and the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Contemporary society - Life expectancy - Egalitarian - Pre-industrial society - Industrial society – Geographic mobility - Social mobility- Beanpole family - Life expectancy   Fertility rates   Childbearing rates

•Includes a keyword bingo 'Do Now' retrieval starter, a timeline-building activity with success criteria and key dates, a true or false progress check, a discussion task on children's rights and a statement-sorting activity on the importance of the extended family.

•Includes 3 and 4 markers

•Includes key term sheet with definitions for the lesson.

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•Includes student information sheets on parent-child relationships and wider kin.

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

Topic 6 - Contemporary family issues and criticisms

L21 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 6 - Contemporary family issues
- Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students identify and describe issues related to families in contemporary society, such as the quality of parenting, the relationships between teenagers and adults, care of the disabled/elderly and arranged marriage.

- Helps students consider the impact of and reasons for these family related issues in contemporary society on family relationships and roles.

- Covers the difference between arranged marriage and forced marriage and why forced marriage is illegal in Britain.

- Includes a teaching to all activity

-Includes three videos

-ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

- Includes ‘identify and describe’ 3 marker and ‘identify and explain’ 4 marker

- Covers the following key terms: Arranged marriage, Forced marriage

-Covers the following sociologists: Duncan (2006), Garrod (2005), Ginn and Arber (1992), The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2007)

- Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Social policy - Contemporary society - Socialisation - Underclass - Dependency culture - The New Right - Cultural deprivation - Cultural capital - Primary socialisation - Secondary socialisation - Norms - Values - Culture - Pupil subcultures - Class differences in education achievement - Immigration - Monogamy

- Starter activity recaps marketisation from the education unit, with a full check, correct and develop answer slide.

-Item-based progress checks with instant answer reveals

-Extension task on the factors that might cause each contemporary family issue.

- Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

L22 AQA GCSE Sociology Families: Criticisms of the family - Why might some sociologists criticise contemporary families?
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and describe criticisms of contemporary families, explain why sociologists might criticise them and consider what this might mean for society.

•Helps students explain why contemporary families might be considered dysfunctional.

•Includes a matching activity linking each criticism of the family to its correct explanation.

•Includes a teaching to all activity.

•Includes Deeper Thinking tasks that ask students to criticise each criticism.

•INCLUDES 3 MARKER AND 12 MARKER EXAM QUESTIONS WITH BRIEF SUCCESS CRITERIA.

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•NO STARTER ACTIVITY

•Covers the following key terms: Isolation, Dysfunctional, Contemporary, Idealised / idealisation.

•Covers the following sociologists’ critique of the family: Parsons, Zaretsky, Oakley, Delphy and Leonard, Murray.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Idealised/ idealisation - Contemporary - Nuclear family - Extended family - Conventional family - Family diversity - Primary socialisation - Stabilisation of adult personalities - Conjugal roles - Dual burden - Triple shift - Domestic labour - Emotional labour - Geographic and social mobility - Secularisation - Lone-parent families - Exploitation

•Makes links to Topic 2 Couples, Topic 3 The functions of the family, Topic 4 Family diversity and Topic 5 Changing family relationships.

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

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

21 LESSONS ON THE FOLLOWING:

Topic 1 - Different family types (excludes alternatives to the family)

L1 AQA GCSE Sociology Families: Family forms - Different family type
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify the difference between a family and a household, describe the different family types that exist in Britain and consider how and why ‘the family’ is changing.

•Covers the following key terms: Family, Household, Cohabitation, Family form, Family diversity, Nuclear family, Lone-parent family, Same-sex family, Reconstituted family, Extended family (horizontally and vertically), Empty-nest family, Traditional, Contemporary society (extension), Homosexuality (extension) and Heterosexuality (extension)

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know: Gender - Sex

•Includes a teaching to all activity

•ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•Includes a carousel activity with a capture sheet on the different family forms

•Includes up-to-date ONS graphs (Families and households in the UK, 2025) as a statistics activity

•Includes think, pair, share discussion tasks and deeper thinking analysis questions

•No key sociologists are covered in this lesson

•INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON

•Pedagogical approaches used: retrieval practice, explicit vocabulary instruction, modelling, worked examples, scaffolding, metacognitive prompts (think, pair, share), adaptive teaching through extension terms, and stretch and challenge deeper thinking questions

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

L2 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families – Alternatives to the family

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify the different alternative households people might live in, explain why people live in these alternatives to the family, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of each.

•Covers the following key terms: Alternative to the family, One-person household, Commune, Kibbutz, Residential home, House shares / shared households, Kin, Kinship, Welfare state (extension).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family – Household.

•Includes a DO NOW think, pair, share retrieval activity on the key terms and definitions.

•Includes an information-gathering carousel activity with detailed information sheets on the kibbutz, residential homes, house shares and one-person households.

•Includes two differentiated versions of the main worksheet (standard and DEEPER THINKING) to support adaptive teaching.

•Includes a consolidation activity matching features to each alternative to the family.

•Includes DEEPER THINKING stretch and challenge prompts throughout.

•Includes links to videos for further information.

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

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

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

L3 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families - Families in a global context
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe family forms and relationships outside of the UK, explain how families outside the UK differ to families in the UK, and consider the impact of the different family forms that exist outside the UK.

•Compares contemporary family diversity in the UK with family life in China, South Asia, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.

•Covers the following key terms: Global context, Matriarchal, Matriarch. Breadwinner (extension), Home-maker (extension), Division of labour (extension)

•Covers the following sociologists: Parsons, Bott and the Rapoports

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Kin - Kinship - Cohabitation - Extended family - Vertically extended family - Patriarchy - Gender - Socialisation - Primary socialisation - Family form/structure/type - Nuclear family - Lone-parent family - Same-sex family - Reconstituted family - Empty-nest family - Alternatives to the family

•Includes a DO NOW retrieval task on family forms and alternatives to the family, with animated answers

•Includes explicit vocabulary instruction with key terms

•Includes an ACTIVATE task using an information sheet, with worksheet questions, and modelled sentence starters and success criteria for extended writing

•Includes DEEPER THINKING prompts for stretch and challenge throughout

•Teaching and learning strategies used: retrieval practice, explicit vocabulary instruction, modelling and worked examples, scaffolding, adaptive teaching, metacognitive prompts, stretch and challenge, and a spiral curriculum approach that revisits prior key terms

•Assessment for learning built in through CHECK, CORRECT AND/OR DEVELOP ANSWERS slides, success criteria and an exam-style question

•INCLUDES ‘DESCRIBE’ 3 MARKER

•INCLUDES FULL INFORMATION TEXT ON FAMILIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT FOR READING AND REFERENCE

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITY AND STARTER INCLUDED

•Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

Topic 2 - Couples/ The domestic division of labour

L4 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 2 Couples - The Traditional Domestic Division of Labour
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students define the domestic division of labour, conjugal roles and joint and segregated conjugal roles, explain the domestic division of labour in traditional families, and consider functionalist and feminist views of it.

•Covers the following key terms: Domestic labour, Domestic division of labour, Conjugal roles, Conjugal, Joint conjugal roles, Segregated conjugal roles, Instrumental role, Expressive role, Breadwinner, Dual-career family, Child rearing, Traditional, Conventional nuclear family, Cereal packet family (extension), Social control (extension), Pre-industrial society (extension), Industrial Revolution (extension), Consumption (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Bott, Parsons (1955) and Oakley (1982).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know to promote a spiral curriculum: Family – Family structure/type – Nuclear family – Traditional [society] – Family diversity – Agency/agents of socialisation – Primary socialisation – Canalisation – Organic analogy – Nature vs Nurture – Instincts – Innate – Socialisation – Value consensus – Gender – Sex – Family form – Functionalism – Consensus theory – Conflict theory – Social institution – Patriarchy – Feminism – Gender roles – Gender socialisation.

•Retrieval starter recapping marketisation with modelled 4 marker success criteria.

•Think–Pair–Share and Teaching to All activities.

•Progress check questions on instrumental and expressive roles.

•Deeper thinking questions for stretch and challenge.

•4 marker ‘perspective’ exam question with detailed scaffolding

•Gap-fill consolidation task on conjugal roles.

INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON.

ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.

L5 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 2 Couples - The Domestic Division of Labour in Contemporary Families

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the symmetrical family argued to exist in contemporary families, explain the reasons for the symmetrical family and consider feminist criticisms of its existence in contemporary society.

•Two 4 marker item A questions on the traditional domestic division of labour (last lesson) with student friendly mark-scheme for one of them.

•Includes a teaching to all activity.

•Includes deeper thinking prompts for stretch and challenge on every main task.

•Covers the following key terms: Contemporary society, The symmetrical family, The new man, Double shift / dual burden, Triple shift, Dual-career family. Dual-earner / worker family (extension), Geographic mobility (extension), Commercialisation of housework (extension), Child rearing and Life expectancy (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Functionalist Young and Wilmott, feminist Oakley, feminist Duncombe and Marsden, feminist Hochschild.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: The domestic division of labour – Conjugal roles – Joint conjugal roles – Gender roles – Expressive role – Instrumental role – Domestic labour – Breadwinner – Dual-earner family – Child rearing – Primary socialisation – Canalisation – Equal Pay Act – Gender differences in educational achievement.

•Pedagogical approaches used: retrieval practice, adaptive teaching and scaffolding, dual coding, questioning for deeper thinking, spiral curriculum links, and assessment for learning through check, correct and develop your answers slides.

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


L6 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 2 Couples - Power in the family (incl. Domestic Violence)
• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify examples of what power might look like in families, describe how power in families might have changed from traditional to contemporary families, and consider how power might be abused in families.

• Covers the following key terms: Power, Domestic abuse/violence Money management system, Allowance system, Pooling.

• Covers the following sociologists: Edgell, Pahl, Vogler and the Opinium Research survey.

• Includes a DO NOW retrieval starter recapping Topic 1: different family forms, alternatives to the family and families in a global context.

• Includes two video clips as activities on domestic abuse, with a trigger warning slide for sensitive content.

• Includes a 3 mark ‘identify and describe’ exam question with success criteria and student-friendly markscheme

• Includes deeper thinking questions on the feminist explanation of domestic abuse, and a teaching to all consolidation discussion.

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

• INCLUDES A KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON

• ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT


L7 AQA GCSE Sociology Families: Topic 2 Couples - Perspectives on Conjugal roles - Functionalist, Marxist and feminist views

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of society, explain each perspective's view of conjugal roles, and apply this knowledge to plan and attempt a 12 marker.

•Covers the following key terms: Conjugal roles, Segregated conjugal roles, Domestic division of labour, Instrumental role, Expressive role, Domestic labour, Emotional labour, Dual burden, Triple shift, Patriarchy, Gender socialisation, Symmetrical family, Family diversity, Social order.

•Covers the following sociologists: Parsons, Oakley (1974), Boulton (1983), Ferri and Smith (1996), Allen and Crow (2001), Duncombe and Marsden, plus Office for National Statistics data.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Conjugal roles, Segregated conjugal roles, Domestic division of labour, Instrumental role, Expressive role, Domestic labour, Emotional labour, Dual burden, Triple shift, Patriarchy, Gender socialisation, Symmetrical family, Family diversity, Social order.Norms - Values - Primary socialisation, Nuclear family, Value consensus, Organic analogy, Capitalism, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, Ideology, False class consciousness, Consensus vs conflict theories.

•INCLUDES 12 MARKER PLANNING AND WRITING TASKS WITH SUCCESS CRITERIA AND MODEL INTRO AND PARAGRAPH

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•INCLUDES A TEACHING TO ALL ACTIVITY.

•STARTER ACTIVITY RECAPS FUNCTIONALIST, MARXIST AND FEMINIST THEORIES OF SOCIETY.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.

•Adaptive teaching: layered questioning, hints and sentence starters allow the same task to be accessed at different levels.

•DEEPER THINKING prompts throughout

Topic 3 - The functions of the family

L8 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Functionalist view (Murdock)

  • Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap functionalist views of society and identify Murdock’s four functions of the family, explain using examples how the family might perform each function, and criticise and analyse them by considering how they might benefit individuals and society as a whole.

  • Covers the following key terms: Sexual function (of the family), Reproductive function (of the family), Education function (of the family), Economic function (of the family), Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Bigamy

  • Covers the following sociologists: Murdock and his key study

  • Makes reference to the following key terms students might know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Function/role (of something) – Social institutions (systems or structures) – Symmetrical family – Dual burden (double/second shift) – Dual career families – Triple shift – Emotion work – Child-rearing – Primary socialisation – Conjugal roles – Segregated conjugal roles – Joint conjugal roles – Expressive role – Instrumental role – Conjugal relationships – Breadwinner – Functionalism – Consensus theory – Structural theory – Value consensus – Organic/biological analogy – The domestic division of labour – Traditional families – Contemporary families

  • Starter activity recaps functionalist views of society with a true or false retrieval task, with answers.

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

  • Includes an around the room card sort on Murdock’s four functions

  • Includes eight image based progress checks for whole class assessment for learning.

  • Includes 4 marker item question practice with success criteria, sentence starters and an extension question.

  • Includes deeper thinking prompts and stretch and challenge tasks throughout to support adaptive teaching.

  • ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITY AND DO NOW INCLUDED

  • RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

L9 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Functionalist view (Parsons)

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify, explain, analyse and evaluate Parsons’ two irreducible functions of the family: primary socialisation and the stabilisation of adult personalities (the Warm Bath Theory).

•Lesson objectives: to identify functionalist Parsons’ two irreplaceable functions of the [nuclear] family; to explain how the family might perform these two functions; to analyse and evaluate the two functions of the family identified by Parsons.

•Covers the following key terms: Stabilisation of adult personalities (the Warm Bath Theory), the Warm Bath Theory analogy and Idealisation.

•Covers the following sociologists: Parsons (with reference to feminist and Marxist Warm Bath Theory).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should already know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Breadwinner – Patriarchy – Exploit – Expressive role – Instrumental role – The division of labour – Emotional labour – Domestic labour – Functionalism – Value consensus – Consensus theory – Social cohesion – Organic analogy – Culture – Norms – Values – Socialisation – Primary socialisation – Conventional nuclear family – Family form – Traditional domestic division of labour – Segregated conjugal roles – Agency of socialisation – Agent of socialisation.

•Retrieval practice: a DO NOW starter recapping Murdock’s four functions of the family

•Modelling and worked examples for an item 4 marker to show students what a full response looks like.

•DEEPER THINKING questions

•4 marker ’perspective’ question with detailed scaffolding to help students answer it.

ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES AND DO NOW INCLUDED.

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

L10 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Marxist view (Zaretsky)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap Marxist views of society, explain Marxist Zaretsky’s view of the functions of the family and other ways the family might serve capitalism, and apply this knowledge to exam questions.

•Covers the following key terms: Socialism, Communism, The Marxist Warm Bath Theory, Alienation, Unit of consumption, Private sphere (extension) and Public sphere (extension).

•Covers the following sociologist: Marxist Zaretsky.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family form – Conventional nuclear family – Bourgeoisie – Proletariat – Economic function – Stabilisation of adult personalities (The Warm Bath Theory) – The traditional domestic division of labour – The contemporary domestic division of labour – Capitalism – Marxism – Profit – Social class – Ownership – Exploit – Inequality – Means of production – Structuralism vs Interactionism – Conflict vs Consensus theory – Agency and agents of socialisation – Systems – Processes – Agency and agents of social control – Culture – Norms – Values – Social processes – Social structures – Positive sanctions – Negative sanctions – Socialisation – Primary socialisation – Secondary socialisation.

•Starter activity recaps Marxist views of society, with key terms and sentence starters for support.

•Includes an information sheet on Zaretsky’s study of the family with structured questions,

•Includes a progress check table on how the family meets the needs of capitalism  - 3 DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THIS TABLE

•Includes DEEPER THINKING tasks throughout

•Assessment for learning: Exam-style practice (4 marker perspective question) with success criteria, modelled examples

•INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON

•ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT

L11 AQA GCSE Sociology: Family Topic 3 Functions of the family - Feminist view (Delphy and Leonard)

•  Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap feminist views of the family, explain the feminist view of the function of the family using examples, and criticise the feminist view of the family as a social institution.

•  Covers the following sociologists: Delphy and Leonard

•  Makes reference to the following key terms students SHOULD know to promote a spiral curriculum: Gender roles – Primary socialisation – Canalisation – Patriarchy – Conflict theory – Structural theory – Symmetrical family – Dual burden – Triple shift – Emotion work – Traditional domestic division of labour – Conventional nuclear family – Segregated conjugal roles.

•  INCLUDES A KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS OF THE FEMINIST STRANDS (optional key terms to introduce students to)

•  Includes a perspective 4 marker on Delphy and Leonard study with detailed success criteria

•  Includes 12 marker with detailed paragraph success criteria

•  Includes retrieval practice, DO NOW starter, PROGRESS CHECK, DEEPER THINKING and CONSOLIDATE activities.

•  Includes a teaching to all activity with deeper thinking tasks tasks.

•  ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

Topic 4 - Family diversity (excludes consequences of divorce)

L13 AQA GCSE Sociology Families Topic 4 – Divorce (Explaining the Increase in Divorce)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the changes in the pattern of divorce since 1945, explain the different reasons for these changes and consider the extent to which each explanation accounts for the increase in divorce.

•Covers the following key terms: Secularisation, Stigma, Empty shell marriage.

•Covers the following sociologists and evidence: Dennis, Fletcher, Hart, Goode, Mitchell & Goody, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the 1969 Divorce Reform Act.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know to promote a spiral curriculum: Function (of an institution) – Individualism – Collectivism – Contemporary society – Consumerism – Desertion – Irretrievable – Adultery – Dual burden – Lone-parent family – Reconstituted family.

•Covers six explanations for the increase in divorce: changes in the law, declining stigma and changing attitudes, secularisation, rising expectations of marriage, changes in the position of women and changes in society.

•Includes a Do Now retrieval starter using a divorce, marriage and remarriage graph, plus deeper thinking prompts throughout.

•Includes an optional slide on recent trends in divorce (age, teenage marriage and social class) with a Think, Pair, Share activity.

•Includes a recap of the two types of 4 mark item question (Item A/C and Item B/D),

•Includes item 4 marker (Item A/D)with detailed success criteria student friendly mark-scheme

•ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITY INCLUDED

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

•Stretch and challenge – an extension question and a Deeper Thinking sheet for higher attaining students.

•PRINT TABLE IN A3 - Two versions

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

L14 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity Divorce – Consequences and Theories of Divorce
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and explain the consequences of divorce for husband and wife, children, the extended family and society as a whole, and recap and apply functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of divorce.

•Covers the following key terms: Radical feminist (extension), Liberal feminist (extension) and Marxist feminist (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Bohannan, Rodgers & Pryor, Rosenfeld, Hart, Parsons, Fletcher and Millett.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should already know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Kin – Kinship – Extended family – Horizontally extended family – Vertically extended family – Reconstituted family – 1969 Divorce Reform Act – Gender pay gap – Secularisation – Functionalism – Structuralism vs Interactionism – Consensus vs Conflict approaches – Value consensus – Social institutions – Organic analogy – Social order – Social cohesion – Marxism – Social class – Proletariat – Ownership – Exploit – Inequality – Capitalism – Means of production – Bourgeoisie – Class struggle – Sex – Gender – Gender roles – Feminism – Patriarchy – Gender inequality – Canalisation – Gender socialisation.

•Starter DO NOW activity recaps prior knowledge of divorce through a TRUE or FALSE retrieval task.

•Recap sequence on functionalist, Marxist and feminist views of society before applying them to divorce.

•Includes a teaching to all activity, with DEEPER THINKING stretch and challenge prompts throughout.

•INCLUDES 12 MARKER with detailed scaffolding

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

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•Includes a trigger warning slide, as the lesson covers divorce and its consequences.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.

L15 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Changing patterns of marriage

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the modern patterns of marriage, explain the reasons for them and apply sociological perspectives to the family structures they might lead to.

•Covers the decline in first marriages, the decline in marriages in churches, the rise in the age of first marriage and the rise in remarriages and serial monogamy..

•Covers the following key terms: Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Bigamy, Serial monogamy, Re-marriage, Cohabitation.

•Covers the following sociologists: Bridebook, Woolley and Co Solicitors, Beck, Wilson, Sharpe, Chester, Fletcher and The New Right.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Stigma - Secularisation - Feminism - Functionalism - Cohabitation - Nuclear family - Marxism - Interactionism.

•Includes a mind-map activity (PRINT IN A3), true or false retrieval, think-pair-share vocabulary work, scenario cards and progress checks.

•Includes a teaching to all activity and deeper thinking stretch and challenge prompts throughout.

•Includes a Item A 4 marker with success criteria

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

L16 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Changing family patterns (reconstituted families, one-person households, dual career families, fertility and childbearing, lone-parent, same-sex couples, extended families and cohabitation rates):
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and describe the different changes to the conventional nuclear family, explain the reasons for these changes and consider the extent to which families are moving away from the conventional nuclear family.

•Covers the following examples of family diversity: lone-parent families, same-sex couples and families, one-person households, cohabitation, reconstituted families, dual-career families, birth, fertility and childbearing, and extended (beanpole) families.

•Covers the following key terms: The New Right, Dependent, Life expectancy, Fertility (extension), Childbearing age (extension), Birth/Fertility rates (extension), Contraception (extension), Beanpole family (extension), 'Living Apart Together' (LATs) (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Murray, Brannen, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Ferri and Smith, Jewson, Williams, Qureshi et al., Weeks, Stonewall, Duncan and Phillips, Renvoize, Fletcher and Parsons.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family diversity - Conventional nuclear family - Contemporary society - Life expectancy - Cohabitation - Secularisation - Stigma - Feminism - Dual-career family - Dual-worker/earner family - Homosexuality (extension) - Heterosexuality (extension).

•Adaptive teaching throughout: scaffolded tasks, sentence stems and success criteria, modelling and worked examples, and stretch and challenge through extension key terms and sociologists.

•Deeper Thinking' prompts

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

•Includes retrieval practice, progress checks (true or false) and a teaching to all information-gathering activity with a completed answer grid.

•Includes exam practice: 4-mark Item A/C questions and 12 marker with scaffolded success criteria

•INCLUDES A MODEL 12 MARK ANSWER WITH ANNOTATION ACTIVITY.

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

L17 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family diversity - The Rapoports and Reasons for Family Diversity

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe, explain, analyse and evaluate the Rapoports' five types of family diversity and the reasons for family diversity in the UK.

•Covers the following key terms: Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Arranged marriage, Bigamy, Organisational diversity, Cultural diversity, Social class diversity, Cohort/ generational diversity, Life course diversity, Family life course diversity, Secularisation, Life expectancy, Immigration and Pluralism.

•Covers the following sociologists: The Rapoports (1982), Chester (1985) and Goode (optional).

•Covers the following laws: 1969 Divorce Reform Act, 1970 Equal Pay Act and the 2013 Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students should know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Family form/ structure/ type – Nuclear family – Conventional nuclear family – Lone-parent family – Vertically-extended family – Horizontally-extended family – Empty-nest family – Cohabitation – Same-sex family – Dual-career family – Conjugal roles – Family diversity – Contemporary society – Gender roles – Norms – Values – Culture.

•Includes 12 marker and 4 marker 'perspective' exam practice with detailed success criteria and sentence stems.

•Includes retrieval practice (DO NOW), progress check activities, a matching task, deeper thinking stretch and challenge questions and a teaching to all activity.

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

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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


L18 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Is the nuclear family still important?

•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and describe arguments for and against the nuclear family still being important in modern Britain, and explain the evidence that supports each view.

•Covers the cereal packet image of the family and how the media present the conventional nuclear family as the ‘ideal’ family type.

•Lesson objectives: to identify arguments for and against the nuclear family still being important in modern Britain; to explain evidence that might support these views; to analyse and criticise the factors that contribute to the nuclear family being or not being important in modern Britain.

•Covers the following key terms: Cereal packet image of family, The conventional nuclear family, Mass media (extension).

•Covers the following sociologists: Oakley (1982).

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Breadwinner – The conventional nuclear family – Family diversity – Conjugal roles – Gender stereotypes.

•thinking stretch and challenge prompts, and an optional discussion activity.

•Includes a 12 mark exam question with detailed paragraph success criteria

•Includes a video clip as an activity.

One activity requires pages for the AQA GCSE 9-1 Sociology Updated Edition by David Bown.

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

•Deeper thinking tasks

Topic 5 - Changes in the family

L19 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 5 - Changes in the family over time (structure, roles and function)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students describe how family structures and conjugal roles have changed over time (pre-industrial, industrial and contemporary) and explain how they might change in the future.

•Covers Young and Willmott's four-stage theory of the family, the symmetrical family and the principle of stratified diffusion.

•Covers the following key terms: Pre-industrial society, Industrial society, Contemporary society, Industries, Industrial revolution, Unit of production, Unit of consumption, Symmetrical family, Asymmetrical family, Asymmetrical, The principle of stratified diffusion, Home-centred, Work-centred, Child-centred. Agriculture (extension), Stratification system (extension) and Diffusion (extension)

•Covers the following sociologists: Young and Willmott, Parsons, Zaretsky, Murdock and the Rapoports

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Consumption - Extended family - Nuclear family - Joint and segregated conjugal roles - Commercialisation of housework (extension) - Means of production - Geographic mobility - Social mobility - Ascribed status - Achieved status - Private sphere (extension) - Public sphere - Leisure (extension) - Family diversity - Polygamy

•Includes perspective 4 marker with detailed scaffolding.

•Includes a teaching to all activity

•Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

•Starter is a retrieval activity on the Rappoports and family diversity

•ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES AND STARTER  INCLUDED

•Key term sheet for the lesson included

L20 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 5 - Changes in family relationships between family members (Parent-child relationships and wider kin)
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students describe how parent-child relationships and people's relationships with their wider family have changed over time in Britain, explain the reasons for these changes and consider the impact these changes might have on individuals and society.

•Covers both parent-child relationships and relationships with wider (extended) kin in one full lesson.

•Covers the following key terms: Kin, Kinship, Extended kin/extended family/wider family, Boomerang children, Sandwich generation, Democratic/  egalitarian  relationships, Child-centred, Infant mortality, Boomerang children (extension), Sandwich generation (extension)

•Covers the following sociologists: Aries, Shorter, Young and Willmott (1957 and 1973), Parsons, Brannen, Bhatti, Pryor and Trinder, Charles et al. (2008a and 2008b), Scott and the Rapoports.

•Also refers to the 1918 Education Act and the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Contemporary society - Life expectancy - Egalitarian - Pre-industrial society - Industrial society – Geographic mobility - Social mobility- Beanpole family - Life expectancy   Fertility rates   Childbearing rates

•Includes a keyword bingo 'Do Now' retrieval starter, a timeline-building activity with success criteria and key dates, a true or false progress check, a discussion task on children's rights and a statement-sorting activity on the importance of the extended family.

•Includes 3 and 4 markers

•Includes key term sheet with definitions for the lesson.

•ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

•Includes student information sheets on parent-child relationships and wider kin.

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

Topic 6 - Contemporary family issues and criticisms

L21 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 6 - Contemporary family issues
- Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students identify and describe issues related to families in contemporary society, such as the quality of parenting, the relationships between teenagers and adults, care of the disabled/elderly and arranged marriage.

- Helps students consider the impact of and reasons for these family related issues in contemporary society on family relationships and roles.

- Covers the difference between arranged marriage and forced marriage and why forced marriage is illegal in Britain.

- Includes a teaching to all activity

-Includes three videos

-ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

- Includes ‘identify and describe’ 3 marker and ‘identify and explain’ 4 marker

- Covers the following key terms: Arranged marriage, Forced marriage

-Covers the following sociologists: Duncan (2006), Garrod (2005), Ginn and Arber (1992), The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2007)

- Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Social policy - Contemporary society - Socialisation - Underclass - Dependency culture - The New Right - Cultural deprivation - Cultural capital - Primary socialisation - Secondary socialisation - Norms - Values - Culture - Pupil subcultures - Class differences in education achievement - Immigration - Monogamy

- Starter activity recaps marketisation from the education unit, with a full check, correct and develop answer slide.

-Item-based progress checks with instant answer reveals

-Extension task on the factors that might cause each contemporary family issue.

- Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

L22 AQA GCSE Sociology Families: Criticisms of the family - Why might some sociologists criticise contemporary families?
•Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students identify and describe criticisms of contemporary families, explain why sociologists might criticise them and consider what this might mean for society.

•Helps students explain why contemporary families might be considered dysfunctional.

•Includes a matching activity linking each criticism of the family to its correct explanation.

•Includes a teaching to all activity.

•Includes Deeper Thinking tasks that ask students to criticise each criticism.

•INCLUDES 3 MARKER AND 12 MARKER EXAM QUESTIONS WITH BRIEF SUCCESS CRITERIA.

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

•NO STARTER ACTIVITY

•Covers the following key terms: Isolation, Dysfunctional, Contemporary, Idealised / idealisation.

•Covers the following sociologists’ critique of the family: Parsons, Zaretsky, Oakley, Delphy and Leonard, Murray.

•Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Idealised/ idealisation - Contemporary - Nuclear family - Extended family - Conventional family - Family diversity - Primary socialisation - Stabilisation of adult personalities - Conjugal roles - Dual burden - Triple shift - Domestic labour - Emotional labour - Geographic and social mobility - Secularisation - Lone-parent families - Exploitation

•Makes links to Topic 2 Couples, Topic 3 The functions of the family, Topic 4 Family diversity and Topic 5 Changing family relationships.

•ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

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