In this activity, students fill out their own sociological family tree, which as well as providing an overview of births, marriages and deaths, also introduces
the concept of social trends. This is achieved through considering features such as remaining childless, cohabitation and remarriage.
Once individual data has been gathered, it could be collated and ‘class trends’ calculated. As an extension activity, students could be encouraged
to consider the extent to which the data they have collected is reliable. A pdf of the family tree can be found here:
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Students should be able to draw on examples from a wide range of subcultures, both classic and...
A useful overview of the Functionalist view of youth culture can be found below:
Students could be asked to write a timeline of their lives as they anticipate them to be after...
Kirsty Grocott’s article in the Daily Telegraph:
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) based at Birmingham University produced a ...
Some Sociologists suggest that subcultures may no longer exist in the form that they once did. Fo...
The following Daily Mail article laments the adoption of Jamaican patois styles of language in...
By way of starting off an investigation into youth subcultures, teachers could pose the proble...
David Starkey featured in a Newsnight discussion about the 2011 UK riots. This Guardian articl...
The class could investigate and consider the extent to which they consider the ‘haul girl&r...
We begin here by looking at ‘what is youth?’, and then the idea of youth-subcultures
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