This interactive activity is designed for Cambridge OCR A Level Sociology and focuses on the Families and relationships topic, specifically the question “How diverse are modern families?” Students work through a series of contemporary UK family and household profiles, classify each one, and then decide what that example suggests about family change in the UK. This helps students move beyond simple definitions and think more carefully about the extent of family diversity.
The second stage pushes students to make a sociological judgement by deciding whether each example shows increasing family diversity, the continuing importance of the nuclear family, or newer and emerging household forms. The final summary reminds students that OCR expects a theoretical approach to this topic, so the activity works well as both an introduction and a revision task.
Family Diversity Classifier
Classify each household profile, then decide what it suggests about family change in the contemporary UK.
Profile 1
Final summary
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