Students could be asked to consider the social class they would consider themselves to be a member of and why. Concepts such as ‘middle class’ and
‘working class’ are likely to feature here. From this they could complete the short survey to determine which of Savage and Devine’s classes they are
part of:
Discover More The Great British class calculator: What class are you?
Students could then read the following article and write a brief report on its methodology and findings:
Discover More What is your 21st Century social class?
This Guardian article also provides a useful overview and in addition, includes a sitcom’ guide to the new class structure. The class could have a
look at clips of these sitcom characters on YouTube or other video sharing platforms: of the social class.
Discover More Great British Class Survey finds seven social classes in UK
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Referring back to the earlier lesson on official crime statistics, students can begin by remin...
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Students could be provided with a copy of the following Guardian article and asked to create a...
"The Road from Crime" is a documentary that looks at how and why people stop or desist from of...
Provide students with a copy of the following Daily Mail article which outlines some strange e...
This Guardian article, see link below is useful as it looks at not only the rise in the prison...
In the United States, carrying a firearm is legal. However, how it is carried is dictated by the ...
Some useful background reading and questions, in advance of the lesson, can be found here:
Stephen Lawrence was a young black British man murdered in a racially motivated attack in 1993...
Students can then work in groups to draw out two over-lapping circles where one circle contain...
In February 2015 the BBC revealed that HSBC had helped over 100,000 of its customers evade tax...
Crime and Deviance continues to be one of the most popular, and interesting, areas of Sociolog...