2023 Festive GCSE Sociology Quiz
Here is our eagerly awaited GCSE Sociology Christmas Quiz for 2023 - it contains loads of our fab festive templates geared towards the GCSE content - each topic is presented as a different round.
Pedagogy & Sociology with Andrew Jones
Returning guest Andrew Jones joins Katie in the Sociology Staffroom for a fascinating look at applying sociological theory to pedagogy.
Secularisation in the UK: Is Collective Workshop Archaic?
This 2023 article tells us that ‘more people under 40 in England and Wales now declare “no religion” than profess to be Christian – the first time the UK’s dominant religion has been pushed into...
Religious Education? Jodi Turner-Smith as God, a Sociological Analysis
For those of you in Year 13 who have turned eighteen, you may have watched the most recent series of Sex Education on Netflix. In Season 4 of Sex Education, Eric (played by Ncuti Gatwa) grapples...
Sociology in the News
A post-lunch quick scroll through the news threw up two interesting news articles that would be really useful for the Families unit - both at GCSE and A-Level...
A sculpture of a woman wearing a hijab - called "The Strength of the Hijab" - is due to be revealed in Birmingham this month. It is believed to be the first sculpture in the world of a woman...
GCSE Sociology: Families Halloween Quiz
Here is a Halloween-themed quiz to use in the run-up to half term to recap the families unit with your new Year 10 cohort or with your Year 11s as part of their mocks preparation. Completely free -...
GCSE Sociology Induction Pack
It's always tricky to know how to start the GCSE course with students - do you spend an hour relaying expectations and explaining the assessment structure and content or do you just plough straight...
OCR wants your thoughts on its redeveloped A Level Sociology spec (first teaching 2024)
As some of you may know, OCR has been working on its A Level Sociology specification which is due to begin being taught from September 2024. They want teachers to have a look at it, and some...
Year 13 Sociology students will find themselves no stranger to Professor Linda Woodhead’s research on religion and religiosity. Described in this article as a leading academic, Woodhead predicts...
Rental reform - no-fault evictions to be banned
Back in the 1980s the Conservative Government's Right To Buy scheme allowed many low income families to get onto the property ladder by being able to buy their council house at a discounted price....
Welcome to Part 3 of this blog series, exploring the ‘any other religion’ option of the 2021 Census (the religion data was released in November 2022). “No religion” was the second most common...
AQA A Level Sociology Grade Booster 2024 Workshops | Provisional Dates and Locations Announced
The provisional dates for our AQA A Level Sociology Grade Booster 2024 cinema workshops have been released. Please use these to enter dates in the school/college calendar for 2023/24.
International Women's Day - Why is it so important?
International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed for over 100 years - but what is it and why is it still important?
Same-sex families - just as good as the traditional set-up!
For many years certain groups of sociologists have argued that the traditional nuclear family is the best family form - offering the best environment to bring up children. Well recent research is...
Deep Dive Into "Any Other Religion": Part Two (Humanism)
This is the second part of a series of blogs looking at what is meant by "any other religion" in the 2021 census data (released in November 2022). This time we are focusing on humanism.
20% of parents are spending less on books for their children
We regularly hear about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the impacts for families in terms of heating their homes or being able to put enough food on the table. But what about the other...
Deep Dive into "Any Other Religion" Part One (Paganism)
This is the first in a 3 part series where I will take a deep-dive into the religions that have grown significantly in the UK, according to the 2021 Census (religion info released in November...
Are you a Christian if you can't tell the Christmas story?
This week I’ve been thinking about what identifying as a religious individual really means. Our entire census data is built upon self-identification by individuals as belonging to a religious...
One of the things I miss now that I am working from home is listening to podcasts as I drove to and from school, so this week I decided it was time to catch up with some episodes of one of my...
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