This activity is designed for AQA A Level Sociology: Families and Households. It fits two key parts of the specification: changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing and the life course, and demographic trends in the United Kingdom since 1900, including birth rates, family size, life expectancy, ageing population, and migration and globalisation.
Students match each demographic or family trend to its likely direction, a possible sociological reason, and an effect on family diversity. The aim is to move beyond simple recall and get students thinking about how demographic change links to wider changes in family life, which is exactly the kind of explanation AQA expects across this topic.
Demographic Change Matching Challenge
Match each demographic or relationship trend to the correct direction, a plausible reason, and its effect on family diversity.
What do these trends suggest?
Write a short sociological judgement about what these patterns suggest about family diversity in contemporary UK society.
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