This power point contains summary/ revision mind-maps for Sociological theory.
A-Level [AQA] Sociology.
Slide 1 - mind-map summarising Feminism as a theory. Includes types: radical, liberal, difference, marxist and poststructuralist.
Slide 2- mind-map summarising Social Action theory, specifically Weber, Giddens & Ritzer.
Slide 3 - mind-map summarising Social Action theory, specifically: ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and Phenomethodology.
Slide 4 - mind-map summarising the suicide debate. Including: Durkheim, Douglas and Atkinson.
Slide 5 - summary of Durkheim’s four types of suicide based on levels of integration.
This is a revision lesson which mind-maps the whole of the education unit. The mind maps cover the four key spec areas:
Theory (Functionalism, Feminism, Marxists, Interactionism, Liberal ideas, The New Right/ Neoliberalism, Postmodernism.
Differences in achievement - there is a mind map each for: class, gender, ethnciity
Relationships & Processes in schools (school ethos, hidden curriculum, subcultures, pupil identities, labelling, setting & streaming, Gendered subjects)
Educational policy
The powerpoint consists of 6 slides (6 mindmaps in total). Key terms and studies are summarised throughout.
This is an A-level sociology lesson which focuses on the crime & deviance unit. The lesson specifically focuses on punishment and victimisation. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 18 slides on the PP.
Included:
Starter, education recap. Find and fix - answers provided.
Punishment overview: reduction, retribution, sociological views (Marxism and Functionalism)
Punishment workbook - included as a separate document. Blue A-level textbook is needed to complete this task.
What do we mean by a victim?
An overview of patterns of victimisation: class, age, gender, ethnicity, repeat victimisation.
Positivist victimology & evaluation
Critical victimology & evaluation
Victimology: feminsim
Contemporary policies - violence against women, key stats
The impact of victimisation
More on the victims of crime, with key stats: Gender, class, age, ethnicity
Example exam questions - taken from the exam board. 4 marker, 6 marker, 10 marker. Mark schemes also on the pp slides.
This is an A-level sociology lesson which focuses on the crime and deviance unit. (Unit 4). The lesson specifically focuses on crime prevention and control. There are 13 slides on the power point and the lesson is designed to last 90 minutes.
Included:
starter, theories of education recap. Mini quiz - separate worksheet included.
Intro to types of crime prevention: situational crime prevention, environmental crime prevention, social & community crime prevention, surveillance.
Explanation of SCP - with evaluation.
Explanation of displacement
Explanation of ECP
Explanation of S&CCP
Explanation of surveillance - Foucault: the birth of prisons.
The Panoptican - fill in the blanks worksheet included. Video clip link included on the PP slide.
Surveillance theories since Foucault - synoptic surveillance, risk management, social sorting & categorical suspicion, labelling & surveillance
Plenary - Functionalist view of crime recap.
This is an A-level Sociology lesson which focuses on Unit 3 - crime and deviance. The lesson specifically goes through globalisation and Green crime. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 14 slides on the PP.
Included:
education recap, starter activity. 4 mark exam questions.
Media & crime recap - questions and answers.
What is globalisation?
The global criminal economy - worksheet. Pupils to explain different types of crime e.g. arms trafficking. Could use the Blue textbook to do this, or the internet.
Beck: global risk consciousness.
Globalisation & capitalism (Taylor)- including evaluation.
Glocal organisations
McMafia - will need access to the textbook in order to do this
Green crime - explanation of what it is
-Research task
Types of green criminology
Primary & secondary green crimes - worksheet included
True or false plenary - worksheet included
This lesson is an A-level Sociology lesson which focuses on crime and deviance. The lesson specifically focuses on the media and crime - Moral panics. (Unit 3 - globalisation). The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes. There are a total of 16 slides on the power point.
Included:
starter, education theory recap. Questions and answers included.
Media headlines - encouraging pupils to think about moral panics.
Explanation of moral panics - including key features, folk devils.
Mods and rockers video clip - link on the pp slide
Stan Cohen - folk devils and moral panics
Deviance amplification spiral with criticisms of moral panics
Other explanations of how the media can create crime included: the hypodermic syringe model and uses & gratification model.
Recap/ mini-assessment, questions and answers included.
Meet the neets article - pupils to identify techniques the media uses when reporting the underclass.
Intro to cyber crime - including Wall (2001) - categories of cyber- crime
30 mark exam question practice. - taken from the exam board. Explains how to use the item. An example answer is also attached. Mark scheme/ bands on the pp slide.
This is an A-level Sociology lesson which focuses on crime and deviance. Unit 2 of the specification. The lesson aims to introduce differences in offending for ethnic minority groups and explains how ethic groups are treated at each stage of the Criminal Justice process. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 19 slides on the power point.
Included:
Starter activity, recapping research methods.
Statistics on ethnicity and crime
Explaining of difference data collection sources such as self-report studies and victim surveys.
Paul Gilroy & negative stereotypes (a brief overview)
Stuart Hall and scapegoats (an overview)
The Stephen Lawrence enquiry and the McPherson report.
Timeline worksheet - students to write around the key areas on their worksheet, attached as a separate document. The power point then talks through each stage of the Criminal Justice process: stop & search, arrests & cautions, prosecution & trial, convictions & sentencing, pre-sentencing reports and prison.
Plenary - a range of questions based on the information students will have learnt in the lesson. Answers provided.
This is an A-level sociology lesson which focuses on the crime and deviance unit. The lesson focuses on Gender and crime - specifically, female criminality. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are 15 slides on the power point.
Included:
Starter, education recap. True or false statements, answers included.
Explanation of Pollak: Chivalry thesis. Throughout the slides there are examples of famous female offenders.
Arguments against the Chivalry thesis - links to statistics and what picture they show - bias against women.
Functionalism - Parsons sex role theory
Heidensohn - social control theory. Question sheet attached for pupils to fill in using the information on the slides.
Adler - Liberation thesis, evidence and evaluation.
Homework reading/ question sheet which focuses on: Carlen & social control, moral panic about girls, gender and victimisation and the criminalisation of females.
This is a power point which focuses on revising criminal psychology. There are a total of 5 mind maps on the power point.
Mind maps include: Loftus & Palmer (classic study), Howells et al 2005 (contemporary study), social explanations of criminality, Biological explanations of criminality, treatments for offenders (anger management and improved diet).
This is an Alevel Sociology lesson which focuses on Gender and crime. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 12 slides on the power point. The lesson starts with a theories of crime knowledge test - mark scheme included.
The lesson then goes on to start Gender and crime - focusing on why men commit crime.
Included:
Starter - Bingo, reviewing the education unit
Theories of crime knowledge test
Key statistics on gender and crime (ONS)
An overview of the different theories/ explanations of gender and crime
Messerschmidt - why do men commit crime? explanation and evaluation
Why do men commit crime? - Lyng, Katz
Winlow: Postmodernity, masculinity and crime
Plenary - 10 marker on why men commit crime. The PP demonstrates which parts students can take from the item.
This is an A-level sociology lesson which focuses on the crime and deviance unit. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes. The lesson covers a recap of Left and Right Realist explanations for crime. Which then moves on to crime prevention. The power point consists of 14 slides and one worksheet.
Inlcuded:
Starter activity recapping the functionalist view of crime
Title page - comparing Left and Right Realism
A3 summary worksheet which includes causes of crime and solutions to crime - students to fill in based on the information on the pp slides.
Explanation of the different types of crime prevention and control - situational, environmental, social & community crime prevention.
Plenary - True or false statements. Answers included.
This consists of two separate power points, these could be delivered individually or put together to make a longer lesson. Each power point is designed to last 90 minutes. The lessons focus on the Marxist view of Crime and deviance including Neo-Marxism and Crimes of the powerful.
Included: Power point 1
Education starter, answers included on the PP
Marxism question and answer recap, answers provided
Neo- Marxism critical criminology
Taylor: Anti-determinism
A fully social theory of deviance
Evaluation of critical criminology
Crimes of the powerful - definitions of occupational and corporate crime
Research task - types of corporate crime
Examples of types of corporate crime
Play-dough task. Students to create an illustration of one of the corporate crimes using the play dough. Pupils then take a picture and label what the illustration is showing.
Included: Power point 2
Education starter, 4 mark exam questions
The abuse of Trust - Harold Shipman example
The invisibility of corporate crime - partial visibility
Explanations of corporate crime - worksheet provided. Students to use the Blue A-Level textbook to complete this task. Textbook pages not included. - basic answers included on the pp slide
10 mark exam question on Marxism - brief outline of what to include
This is an A-level sociology lesson which focuses on the Marxist perspective of crime and deviance. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes.
Included:
Marxism prior knowledge starter
There are three slides which relate to subcultural explanations however, these can be deleted if it has not been covered yet. My subcultural lesson is also on TES.
Explaining class differences in crime - the viewpoints of other theories
Introduction to what Marxists say about crime
Capitalism and consumerism
Criminogenic capitalism
The state and law making
Ideological functions of crime and the law
Social power and crime
Evaluation of Marxism
4 mark exam question - mark scheme included on the slide
White-collar crime research
This is an A-Level Sociology lessson AQA, which focuses on Interactionism and Labelling. Crime and Deviance. Included is two lessons which cover the interactionist perspective. Although two lessons are included, this could be made into one lesson. The lessons included students creating a presentation, however this could be removed and made into one lesson.
Included in Power point 1:
Theories of education starter activity. Answers included.
An Introduction to Interactionism - criminal stereotypes, typical offender.
The social construction of crime.
Howard Becker - An overview.
Who gets labelled? - Piliavin and Briar (1964)
Which groups are likely to be labelled? - Statistics included.
Presentation task. This encourages students to work in small groups to create a presentation on labelling. The aim is for them to present next lesson. This task can be removed if not appropriate. Instructions of what students should include is on the PP slide.
Included in Power Point 2:
Education recap starter activity. Students to match the key sociologists to the concept. Answers included.
Students to complete presentations. (Slide can be removed if not necessary)
The rest of the lesson focuses on covering key ideas from Cicourel: the negotiation of justice, Topic versus resource, the social construction of crime statistics, the effects of labelling: primary and secondary deviance, deviance amplification spiral, reintegrative shaming. Pupils to fill in the question worksheet whilst teacher talks through the questions and answers. These questions cover the content which students should have included in their presentations.
Evaluating interactionism and Labelling theory.
Plenary - 10 mark exam question on the effects of labelling.
This is an A-Level Sociology lesson which focuses on the crime and deviance topic. The lesson focuses specifically on subcultural explanations of crime. Please note that this does not include Subcultural strain theories.
The lesson is designed to last 30-40 minutes, there are a total of 7 slides on the powerpoint. There is also a worksheet which includes questions for students to answer as the content is being discussed.
Content included:
Miller - Focal concerns
Nightingale (1993) - ethnicity and subcultures.
Korem - Middle class gangs
Matza - Subterranean values. As a criticism for subcultural explanations.
Application task. Students to apply the techniques of neutralisation to different statements. Answers on the slide.
This is an A-level Sociology lesson which focuses on the crime and deviance unit. This lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and has a total of 15 slides on the Powerpoint. The lesson talks through Merton’s strain theory as well as, subcultural strain theories.
Included:
Starter activity, education recap.
Functionalist view of crime recap - questions and answers include.
Explanation of Merton’s strain theory, include anomie and the reactions to strain.
Youtube clip to illustrate how society is not Meritocratic - link included on the pp slide.
Evaluation of Merton’s strain theory.
Explanation of subcultural strain theories including: Cohen - status frustration & alternative status hierarchy.
Cloward and Ohlin - three subcultures. Student match up task, provided on a word document attached.
Evaluation of Cloward and Ohlin.
Plenary - reactions to strain match up task.
This is an A-Level Sociology lesson (AQA) which focuses on the Functionalist view of crime and deviance. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 15 slides on the Powerpoint.
Documents included:
Powerpoint
Key concepts sheet
‘know it well’ tick sheet
Theories of crime and deviance overview sheet.
Powerpoint includes:
Education starter, recap.
Overview of the A-Level sociology exams - crime and deviance, focusing on paper 3. Outline of the question types.
Crime and Deviance specification.
Title page - encouraging pupils to think about the positive function of crime, how it may be socially constructed.
Outline of Durkheim: Anomie, positive function of crime. Key terms such as: collective sentiments, social solidarity/ cohesion, value consensus, socialisation, social control.
Other functions of deviance: Polsky, Davis, Cohen, Erikson.
Evaluation of Functionalism.
6 mark exam question assessing pupils knowledge from the lesson - mark scheme included on the slide.
This is an A-level Sociology lesson (AQA) which forms part of the Theory and Methods Unit. This lesson specifically covers The Suicide debate (Durkheim, Douglas & Atkinson) and then moved on to Phenomenology. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 15 slides on the power point.
Included:
Education recap, true or false activity. Answers provided.
Mini quiz on Symbolic Interactionism. Answers included on the slide.
Intro the Suicide debate - why it is useful?
Worksheet attached as a separate document, space for pupils to make notes on each theory/ idea.
Explanation of Durkheim’s ideas, linking to official statistics, types of suicide and evaluation.
Explanation of Dougalas views on suicide.
Explanation on Atkinson’s views on suicide.
Explanation of Phenomenology, including Typifications.
Worksheet for students to summaries each Social Action theory. Attached as a separate document.
This is an A-Level sociology lesson which focuses on the Theory and Methods unit. This lesson specifically covers Symbolic Interactionism. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 13 slides on the power point.
Included:
Starter, 4 mark exam questions encouraging students to recap the education unit.
Title page, encourage students to recap social action theories.
Symbolic Interactionism in a nutshell.
The difference between Interactionism & Symbolic Interactionism.
Explanation of Mead.
Explanation of Blumer.
Goffman’s dramaturgical model - youtube video, link included on the pp slide. Key terms/ explanation also explained.
Evaluation of Interactionist ideas.
Summary sheet - attached as a separate document. Students to fill in.
Plenary - students to plan a 10 mark exam style question.
This is an A-level Sociology lesson which focuses on the theory and methods unit. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are 13 slides on the power point. The lesson specifically focuses on Social Action theory: Weber and Giddens.
Included:
Starter, education recap. Students to match up key terms to the theorists. Answers included.
Social Action summary sheet, to be completed over a series of lessons. Attached as a word document.
Explanation of Weber - youtube video explaining the types of Social Action. Link included on the pp slide.
Explanation of Ritzer - McDonaldisation. Video included, clip on the pp slide.
Evaluation of Weber.
Explanation of Structuration - Giddens.
Student activity, whereby students are encouraged to apply their knowledge of agency, structure and how they work together to a scenario. Example on the pp slide.
Plenary - go back to the summary sheet and complete the relevant sections.