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Student Worksheets: Various Authors

Deviance
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The worksheets in this section can be used inside the classroom (as lesson plans) or outside the classroom (as homework exercises, for example). In some instances a specific textbook is required, (although it may be possible to adapt the worksheets to whatever text(s) your students use.

Word 2000 Pdf	Deviance File Size: 93k/52k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 2000 Pdf	Crime and Deviance File Size: 330k/202k Author: L.Bryant
A worksheet on the Functions of Crime and Deviance that uses Stephen Moore's "Investigating Crime and Deviance" (1st edition - although the 2nd edition can also be used).		A set of eight worksheets that cover the following areas: Trends In Crime, Common Sense Notions of, "The Criminal", Juvenile Crime, Functionalist theories (Merton), Becker, Crime And Deviance, Subcultures, Deviancy and the Media, Gender and Crime. The worksheets are designed for the AEB syllabus, but can also be used with other A-level syllabuses.
Word 6 Pdf	Introduction To Deviance File Size: 25/14k Author: P.Covington	Word 6 Pdf	Functionalism and Crime File Size: 43k / 22k Author: P.Covington
An introduction to deviance that covers a number of basic definitions and themes in this area of the course. The worksheet includes classroom / homework exercises.		This worksheet examines Functionalist contributions to our understanding of crime and deviance. In particular, the worksheet provides extensive coverage of Durkheim's basic ideas about society and deviance. The file includes a number of student exercises.
Word 6 Pdf	Interactionism and Crime File Size: 240k / 311k Author: P.Covington	Word 6 Pdf	Crime and Subcultures File Size: 176k / 138k Author: P.Covington
This worksheet examines Interactionist contributions to our understanding of crime and deviance. Specifically, it focuses on the background to Interactionist theories and the way writers such as Becker and Cooley have developed Interactionist concepts. In the main, however, this worksheet provides a wide range of interesting student exercises designed to consolidate understanding in this area of the course.		Through a series of twelve exercises, this worksheet examines the different contributions of writers such as Walter Miller (The focal concerns of working class youth) and David Matza (Delinquency and Drift) to our understanding of crime and its relationship to youth subculture.
Word 6 Pdf	Marxist Perspectives File Size: 388k / 241k Author: P.Covington	Word 6 Pdf	Crime Knowledge File Size: 20k / 10k Author: J.Griffiths
The focus of this worksheet is Traditional Marxist perspectives on crime, with coverage of writers such as Chambliss, Mankoff, Pearce and Snider. As ever, a range of student exercises are included in the worksheet.		Based on Taylor et al ("Sociology In Focus", 1996) this is a file of 78 knowledge-based questions which also includes a number of points for evaluation / discussion. The worksheet is designed to help students structure their revision while also ensuring they have a firm understanding of crime and deviance.

AS Level: Youth and Culture (OCR Specifications)

Not strictly deviance, I know, but as near enough as makes no difference...

The following worksheets are all based on "Sociology in Perspective" by Kirby et al (except where an alternative textbook is indicated). To get the most from the worksheets, students will need access to this text.

Word 2000 Pdf	Youth and Culture File Size: 64k / 10k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 2000 Pdf	Youth and Class, Gender and Ethnicity File Size: 92k / 10k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet provides an introduction to youth culture / subculture and includes work on the following areas: the concept of youth; youth as social control; spectacular subcultures; post-modern youth.		This worksheet focuses on youth and class and looks at: Functionalist ideas about youth subcultures; CCCS ideas about youth as "resistance through ritual"; Cohen's criticisms of the CCCS approach.

Word 2000 Pdf	Youth and Class, Gender and Ethnicity 2 File Size: 68k / 05k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 2000 Pdf	Youth and Class, Gender and Ethnicity 3 File Size: 28k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet completes the material on social class and looks at the relationship between gender, ethnicity and youth subcultural behaviour. The worksheet is completed by material that looks at post-modern approaches. Note: This worksheet is based on: Taylor (“Investigating Culture and Identity”)		This worksheet explores some aspects of post-modern explanations for youth behaviour by examining and applying the concept of neo-tribes to this behaviour.

Word 2000 Pdf	Gangs File Size: 436k / 440k Author: Chris.Livesey
Not so much a worksheet as a "Complete Customisable Lesson Pack"™. In other words, a couple of sheets of information / questions that indicate what students have to do and a "ShedLoad"™ of resource material to help them do it. You, meanwhile, can lean back, put your feet up and enjoy a few moments peace and quiet. Oh, by the way, the material's on Gangs: Territory, Rituals, Values and Sanctions - plus stuff on how theories of deviance / delinquency can be related to gangs. It's Big and it's...err...Bad?

A2 Level: Crime and Deviance (OCR Specifications)

Word 6 Pdf	Defining Deviance(1) File Size: 13k /14k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Defining Deviance(2) File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet introduces students to definitions of crime and deviance and tests their understanding of the social construction and relativity of these key concepts.		This worksheet introduces some key perspectives in the sociology of crime and deviance. It also contrasts the ideas of "correctional criminology" with sociological interpretations of deviance.

Word 6 Pdf	Non-Sociological Theories (1) File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Non-Sociological Theories (2) File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet provides an overview of the basic principles underlying biological, physiological and psychological explanations of crime and deviance.		This worksheet broadens the work done in the previous worksheet to consider the "medicalisation of deviance" and the significance of power in the criminalisation process

Word 6 Pdf	Labelling Theory (1) File Size: 11k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Labelling Theory (2) File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet introduces the labelling theory and requires students to relate an understanding of labelling theory to the critique of correctional criminology.		This worksheet develops the previous work on labelling theory by introducing a range of Interactionist concepts (deviant career, looking-glass self, self-fulfilling prophecy etc.) relating to crime and deviance.

Word 6 Pdf	Measuring Crime (1) File Size: 13k / 04k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Measuring Crime (2) File Size: 16k / 07k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet asks students to consider the reliability and validity of official crime statistics and to identify trends in official statistics.		This worksheet introduces alterative ways of measuring crime, through the British Crime Surveys, self-report and victim surveys. A self-report crime questionnaire is included with the worksheet.

Word 6 Pdf	Patterns of Crime (1) File Size: 13k / 04k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Patterns of Crime (2) File Size: 21k / 22k Author: Chris.Livesey
The focus of this worksheet is patterns of crime relating to gender and ethnicity. Material on styles of policing is also included in the worksheet.		The focus of this worksheet is explanations of crime relating to class, age, gender, ethnicity and region. The worksheet is specifically designed for group work and students may find the notes on the Social Distribution of Crime helpful when using the worksheet.

Word 6 Pdf	Explanations for Crime (1) File Size: 13k / 04k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Explanations for Crime (2) File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
Based on Wincup and Griffiths' "Crime, Deviance and Social Control", this worksheet covers ecological, strain and (Functionalist) subcultural theories.		Based on Wincup and Griffiths' "Crime, Deviance and Social Control", this worksheet covers Interactionist theories (including Deviancy Amplification) and (Marxist) subcultural theories.

Word 6 Pdf	Radical Criminology File Size: 14k / 07k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Explanations for Crime (3) File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
Based on Wincup and Griffiths' "Crime, Deviance and Social Control", the worksheet examines Taylor, Walton and Young's "fully social theory of deviance".		Based on Wincup and Griffiths' "Crime, Deviance and Social Control", this worksheet explores explanations for female criminality using the concepts of Female Liberation, Economic Marginalisation, Social Control and Masculinity

Word 6 Pdf	Social Control File Size: 29k / 05k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Social Control (2) File Size: 14k / 06k Author: Chris.Livesey
Based on Wincup and Griffiths' "Crime, Deviance and Social Control", the worksheet covers aspects of formal and informal social control, in addition to an historical and contemporary examination of the criminal justice system.		Based on Wincup and Griffiths' "Crime, Deviance and Social Control", the worksheet develops ideas about the changing nature of social control through the work of Foucault and Cohen.

Word 6 Pdf	Solutions to Crime File Size: 13k / 05k Author: Chris.Livesey
The final worksheet in this series examines New Left Realism and solutions to the problem of crime.

Social Inequality

Word 6	Class, Culture and Identity File Size: 50k Author: P.Covington	Word 6	Social Mobility File Size: 48k Author: P.Covington
This is an activity-based set of worksheets covering a range of Introductory themes and concepts (including What Is Stratification?, Differences in Stratification, Working class culture in the UK, Forms of Stratification)		An activity-based set of worksheets covering a range of themes and concepts relating to the study of social mobility (including The Importance of Social Mobility, Types, Patterns and Debates and Measuring Social Mobility)
Word 6	The Lifeboat Game File Size: 41k Author: P.Covington
Described by the author as an "Introductory Lesson", this file works on a number of different levels: as an ice-breaker for a new class, to explore themes of class, gender and ethnic inequality / discrimination (try changing some of the people - if you're brave, include yourself as one of the passengers, plus a readily-identifiable student from your class...) or as a way of evaluating theories such as Davis and Moore's "Principles of Stratification".

A2 Level: Social Differentiation (OCR Specifications)

The following worksheets are all based on "Sociology in Perspective" by Kirby et al. To get the most from the worksheets, students will need access to this text.

Word 2000 Pdf	Income and Wealth 1 File Size: 51k / 30k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Income and Wealth 2 File Size: 11k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
The first worksheet relating to aspects of social differentiation and inequality focuses on contemporary changes in the distribution of income and wealth. More specifically it tests student understanding of concepts such as income and wealth and explanations for income decline amongst the poor. Its graphic-based content means you will need Word 2000 to appreciate it in all its gaudy glory...		The second part of the contemporary changes in the distribution of income and wealth worksheet. Its focus is on wealth redistribution, the distinction between marketable and non-marketable wealth and the global distribution of wealth.

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Contemporary Workplace Inequality
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Contemporary Workplace Inequality 2
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Author: Chris.Livesey

This worksheet requires students to focus on the meaning of work, the social relationships involved in work, the distinction between work and leisure and an evaluation of the decline in permanent work thesis.

In this worksheet, the focus shifts to a consideration of gender inequalities within the workplace. This involves considering the concepts of horizontal and vertical forms of segregation, pay differentials, dual-systems theory and Hakim's contribution to the gender inequality debate.

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Contemporary Workplace Inequality 3
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Contemporary Workplace Inequality 4
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Author: Chris.Livesey

The focus of this worksheet is the differentiation between mass production and flexible specialisation as forms of workplace organisation. It also considers the possible impact of the latter on family life and education.

Developing the theme of workplace inequalities, this worksheet focuses on gender and ethnicity. Specifically, the focus here is on identifying and explaining workplace inequalities based on these two concepts.

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Workplace change and class formation
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Workplace change and class formation 2
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Author: Chris.Livesey

This worksheet examines changes in industrial relations law over the past 25 years. New Right ideology is also briefly examined and applied.

The main focus of this worksheet is an outline and evaluation of objective and subjective measurements of social class

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Concepts and Measures of Poverty
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Contemporary Trends in Poverty
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Author: Chris.Livesey

This worksheet examines the concepts of absolute and relative forms of poverty, with the emphasis on students evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each approach using the revolutionary "PMA"™ (Plus / Minus / Assess) method developed in a secret laboratory just above my garage. Students are also introduced to the social indicators approach to measuring poverty (but only as an afterthought).

This worksheet focuses on government policy and the collection of statistical data about poverty. This is complimented by material that asks students to examine factors related to the risk of poverty (class, gender, ethnicity...).

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Contemporary Trends in Poverty 2
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Poverty and Theory
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Author: Chris.Livesey

The second worksheet in this series examines the relationship between poverty, gender and ethnic background. It requires students to examine various structural reasons (work, family, etc.) for poverty and relate them to explanations of gender and ethnic-based patterns of poverty.

This worksheet requires students to do a number of things: to identify and evaluate individual and social explanations of poverty; to analyse and explain structural and cultural approaches to understanding poverty; to identify arguments for and against State-sponsored welfare provision; to identify arguments for and against the existence of an underclass.

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Concepts of Class
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Concepts of Class (2)
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Author: Chris.Livesey

The focus of this worksheet is the difference between Marxist / Neo-Marxist and Weberian / Neo-Weberian concepts of social class.

The second worksheet in this area explores various aspects of social mobility.

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Feminist Theories
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Feminist Theories 2
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Author: Chris.Livesey

This worksheet recaps and builds on the work done at AS level, with the main focus being on an understanding of different types of feminist theory.

The focus of the second Feminism worksheet is on the various ways Feminism has changed / is changing to reflect social change.

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Race and Ethnicity
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Author: Chris.Livesey

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Synoptic Checklist
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Author: Chris.Livesey

This worksheet revisits and expands on some of the work done at AS level. It also introduces different explanatory models relating to ethnicity

A checklist of the worksheets in this module that allows students and teachers to track the completion of each worksheet.

Family Life

Word 97	Family Life File Size: 108k Author: Chris. Livesey	Word 6	Family Life 1 File Size: 581k / 446k Author: J.Maloney
A single worksheet that examines the Functions of Family Life. This does not require a specific textbook.		The first worksheet based around "Sociology: An Interactive Approach" by Nik Jorgenson et al (you will need access to this text to get the most from these worksheets) examines Functionalist Perspectives on family life.
Word 6	Family Life 2 File Size: 191k / 186k Author: J.Maloney
The second worksheet based around "Sociology: An Interactive Approach" by Nik Jorgenson et al examines Conflict Perspectives on family life in addition to the domestic labour debate.
Word 97	Family Life 4 File Size: 249k Author: J.Maloney	Word 6	Family Knowledge File Size: 43k Author: J.Griffiths
The final worksheet based around "Sociology: An Interactive Approach" by Nik Jorgenson et al examines alternatives to conventional family life; age and social policy.		Based on Kirby et al ("Sociology in Perspective", 1997) this is a file of 82 knowledge-based questions designed to help students structure their revision while also ensuring they have a firm understanding of family life.

Word 6	Functionalism and the Family File Size: 49k Author: P.Covington	Word 6 Word 97	Family and Social Change File Size: 87k / 95k Author: J.Greenaway Jones File Format: Word 97/00
This worksheet covers a number of areas relating to Functionalist views on family life. These include conclusions about whether or not the family is a universal institution, the evolution of family life, key writers (Murdock, Parsons, Goode, etc.), the changing functions of the family, and the isolated and private nuclear family. Student exercises are included in the worksheet.		Written for the OCR 2533 Module (Culture and Socialisation), this activity-based set of worksheets covers an Introduction to Family Life, the role of the family, the nuclear family debate, the structure of the family and patterns of divorce. The worksheets are not text-specific, although a range of books, journals and websites are recommended as the basis for a variety of task-orientated activities.
Word 6 Word 97	Family Diversity File Size: 74k / 70k Author: J. Greenaway Jones
Written for the OCR 2533 Module (Culture and Socialisation), this activity-based set of worksheets focuses on a range of issues relating to diversity in families and households. The worksheets are not text-specific, although a range of books, journals and websites are recommended as the basis for a variety of task-orientated activities.

AS Level: Family Life (OCR Specifications)

The following worksheets are all based on "Sociology in Perspective" by Kirby et al. To get the most from the worksheets, students will need access to this text.

Word 6 Pdf	Family Concepts File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Family Concepts 2 File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
A set of questions to test students' knowledge and understanding of basic family concepts (definitions etc.) and introduces feminist and functionalist perspectives on family life.		This worksheet builds on the work completed in part one by looking at family structures, alternatives to conventional family structures and the family and industrialisation.

Word 6 Pdf	Recent Demographic Change File Size: 14k / 04k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Recent Demographic Change 2 File Size: 14k / 04k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet focuses on the interpretation of household patterns and trends data as it relates to areas such as marriage. cohabitation and divorce.		This worksheet focuses on the interpretation of household patterns and trends data as it relates to areas such as fertility and age.

Word 6 Pdf	Family and Social Policy File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Family and Social Policy 2 File Size: 12k / 03k Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet asks students to relate social policy to family life (as both a private and public institution) and family ideology. The main provisions of the Welfare State are identified and discussed.		Part 2 asks students to relate social policy to family ideology as it relates to areas such as single parenthood.

Word 6 Pdf	Recent Trends in Family Life File Size: 14k / 05 Author: Chris.Livesey	Word 6 Pdf	Recent Trends in Family Life File Size: 14k / 09 Author: Chris.Livesey
This worksheet asks students to relate social policy to family life (as both a private and public institution) and family ideology. The significance of the Welfare State is examined in terms of its provision and ideological assumptions.