Family life in contemporary society is more diverse than the traditional nuclear family model suggests. Alongside well-known family forms, sociologists now use newer terms such as boomerang kids, KIPPERS, DINKS and LATs to describe changing patterns of intimacy, care, housing and dependency. This activity helps students match key contemporary family terms to their correct definitions, so they can build confidence with the language used in A Level Sociology when analysing family diversity and social change.
Contemporary Family Types: Matching Definitions
Click one term and then click the correct definition. This activity focuses on newer ways sociologists describe family, household and relationship patterns in contemporary society.
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Investigating Education and Ethnic Identity
How do sociologists actually turn an idea into a piece of research? In this interactive activity, you take on the role of a sociological researcher investigating how education may influence the ethnic identities of pupils. Rather than simply choosing a research method, you will work through the different stages of a real research investigation and…
What Do Sociologists Actually Do?
If sociology is the study of society, what does a sociologist actually do? Do they sit around thinking about capitalism? Do they spend their time reading statistics? Do they interview people? Do they watch how people behave? Do they advise governments? Do they expose inequality? Or do they simply spend their careers arguing with other…
What Is Sociology? Understanding the Society Behind the Individual
One of the first problems sociology students encounter is that sociology appears to be about almost everything. Families? Sociology. Education? Sociology. Crime? Sociology. Social media, poverty, gender, ethnicity, religion, politics, work, youth culture, inequality and relationships? All sociology. So what actually makes sociology a separate academic discipline? The answer lies less in what sociologists study…
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