AQA AS Sociology Unit 1 Workbook: Families and Households

Summary:
This new Workbook for AQA AS Sociology Unit 1 will help build your understanding by answering questions on all key topics.
For use either in class or for homework, this A4 full colour Workbook provides stimulus materials on all the topics in the unit. These are followed by sets of questions focusing on the AO1 skills of knowledge and understanding building up to develop application, interpretation, analysis and evaluation skills (together AO2). Additional exam-style questions will help you put what you have learned into practice.
Answers are available online at www.hodderplus.co.uk/philipallan/workbooks so you can check and assess your responses.

• Builds knowledge and confidence with unit and topic specific exercises
• Develops students' skills throughout their course, right up to the exam
• Saves valuable preparation time and expense with self-contained exercises that don't need photocopying
• Provides instant lesson solutions for specialist and non-specialist teachers

Table of Contents:
1 How have families changed over time: functionalist and New Rights views of the nuclear family
2 Alternative views of families: Marxism and feminism
3 Families and social policies
4 Changing family patterns, including marriage and divorce
5 Cotemporary family diversity
6 Roles within families
7 Power and the domestic division of labour
8 The nature of childhood: how childhood is socially constructed
9 The status of children in families and in society today
10 Demography: birth and death rates, family size

About the Author(s):
Jonathan Blundell has taught A-level sociology for about 20 years at Lord Williams's School, Thame. He is a senior examiner with a leading awarding body, the author of several A-level textbooks and other resources and is a vice president of the Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences.

Readership:
AQA AS Sociology