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17 August 2026

L1 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families - 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

•INCLUDES KEY TERM SHEET WITH DEFINITIONS FOR THE LESSON.

•ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.

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

**L2 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families - The Domestic Division of Labour in Contemporary Families
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•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

L3 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families - 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

L4 AQA GCSE Sociology Families: 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

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