WALT: How is class different form caste and estate? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using occupation as a measure of social class? How does social class impact on a person's life chances?
WILF: Can list the differences between class systems and caste and estate systems (E-D). Can explain the RG schema and the NS-SEC schema (D). Can list the advantages and disadvantages of using occupation as a measure of social class (D). Can think synoptically and explain how social class can impact on a person's life chances drawing on education, families and households, power and politics and health (B-A)
Lesson Development
Starter: Connect the learning: Which is most convincing - the Marxist, Weberian or functionalist view of class and stratification - promenade your partner then stand and share
1. Rally Robin - how does social class impact on your education, health, family life, and politics.. then Stand and Share your evidence
2. Investigate the PPT on Measuring Social Class then in your Pair Rally Robin the key points
3. In a new pair Rally coach the Cloze and Matching exercises then print
4. Research both the "Hope Goldthorpe Scale" and the "Surrey Occupational Class Schema". Explain how they work and the advantages and disadvantages.
Group Task What are the strengths and weaknesses of the R G and NSSEC? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Hope Goldthorpe Scale?
Lesson 2
WALT: What problems are there in operationalising the concept of social class?
WILFs: Can define 'operationalise' and subjective and objective views of social class (D).... can describe and explain in detail the RG and NSSEC measures of social class (C)..... can compare and contrast at least 3 different schemas or measures of social class identifying their strengths and weaknesses (A)
Starter:
1. Rally Robin and list the ways in which social class can be Defined and Operationalised
2. Stand and Share
3. Read the handouts and complete both sets of exercises
4. Quiz quiz trade
5. Use your text books - summarise the key features of the RG, NSSEC and one other classifications of social class and list the strengths and weaknesses of all three
6. Plenary - Find the Fiction on occupational measures of social class
7. Homework - prepare for an 18 mark question test on Friday on today's WALT - there is guidance for a very similar question in your textbooks
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