L1 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.

**L2 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity Divorce – Consequences and Theories of Divorce
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•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.

**L3 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Changing patterns of marriage
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•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.

L4 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family Diversity - Changing family patterns

•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.

**L5 AQA GCSE Sociology: Families Topic 4 Family diversity - The Rapoports and Reasons for Family Diversity
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•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.

L6 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.

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

•Deeper thinking tasks

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