1. Documentary Ideas
By Michelle Asafu-Adjaye

2. The family
Three Ideas Bullying
E.G-: E.G-:
•How the family has •Bullying in schools.
changed in the last few •The different types of
years. bullying. E.g.-cyber bullying,
•Why the family has gang bullying etc.
changed/ factors that have Documentary Ideas •How bullying has changed
influenced the change. over the years.
•The different types of •How it effects peoples lives.
family.
Crime in
After meeting with
London
my teacher we E.G-:
decided that a •Does the area you live in affect the crime rate
documentary about in London.
family would be a •How has crime changed over the years. E.G-
gun and knife crime
good idea. •Gender and crime
•Crime and ethnicity

3. The Family

4. Research
• One of the subjects I study at A-level is sociology and within it I learn about the family, the different types
of family and how the family has changed over the years.
• During the 1950’s and 60’s, the most common type of family was the nuclear family, which consisted of a
mother, father and children.
• There are many sociological theories on the function of the nuclear family and how it benefits society and
the members of the family. E.G functionalists argue that the family is functional for society and feminists
argue that the nuclear family only benefits men and is unfair to women.
• The feminist theory highlights the fact the nuclear family isn't absolutely perfect and behind closed doors
it could be a different story which is known as the dark side of the family. E.G domestic violence.
The mum
stayed at home
to cook, clean
The dad was the main and look after
Over the last 50 years it could be breadwinner in the the children.
said that the Nuclear family is no family and would go
longer existent and its no longer out to work everyday.
the norm. There has been an
increase in other types of families.
E.g.- lone parent families,
reconstituted families, extended
families, horizontally extended The children were expected to
families, vertical extended families, obey their parents and most
matrifocal families etc. importantly to respect their
father.

5. Reasons for the change
There are several reasons for the changing family
structure. Some of these changes include:
Women now have
I would like to
careers due to the fact
that they now get incorporate these ideas Advances in medicine mean
equal opportunities in in my documentary as that couples can now put off
employment, so they well as various points in having children until they are
are delaying marriage history that have ready. This also means that men
and having children. and women can have several
influenced the change.
different partners without
E.g. women's right to worrying about babies and
vote. marriage. E.g.- contraception
Secularisation (changing
Its easier to get attitudes towards religion)
divorced now means that people no
whereas before longer view the family as
you had to have it an important unit and
approved by a certain behaviour is more
Equal pay act means that judge. E.G you van acceptable. E.g.-
woman can go to work and now get divorced cohabitation, same sex
earn the same pay as men so on the grounds of relationships and marriage
divorce is now affordable. irretrievable break no longer being
down. important.

6. My first episode would be
about the nuclear family and
its history and the new types
of family that are emerging. I
Episodes My third episode would
be about. ‘the dark side of
the nuclear family. I will
would talk about when it was
explore how the nuclear
most popular and how it
family wasn't completely
became the ‘norm’. I would
My second episode would be perfect as some families
put in different sociological
about how the family structure suffered from domestic
perspectives of the family, by
has changed over the last couple violence from the
interviewing sociologists as
of years and what has husband and sometimes
well as gaining the view points
influenced the change in the the children often felt
of other people.
structure. As well as including neglected. I will look at
the reasons I stated in the true stories of people who
previous slide, I will include have been victims this
various points in history that
have influenced the changing
family structure. E.G. The
introduction of the
contraceptive pill in the UK in
1961, Women gaining the right
to divorce their husbands in
1857 and the ‘equal pay act’ in
1970 etc.

7. Research
• Crime has risen a lot in the UK in particular gun and knife crime.
• According to biologists you can tell who’s a criminal by their facial features. At one
point people who where deemed ugly by society were considered criminals. The
Biologist theory also states that Biological theory states that people commit
crimes because of genetic, biochemical, or neurological deficiencies.
• Psychologists say that people commit crimes because of personality imbalances
developed during early childhood.
• Also the is sociological research on gender and crime which shows that males
commit more crime than females.

8. Episodes
My third episode
My second episode
My first episode will will be on the
would be on gender
explore gun and knife psychology of
and crime. Sociologists
crime. I will look at how crime, biological
have found that men
the law enforcement explanations of
commit more crime
systems try to tackle the crime and
than women and I
problem. I will get sociological
would like to present
interviews from people explanations the
the theories on this
on how they feel about fear of crime and
such as; women not
the rise in these two how people deal
having time to commit
types of crimes. with crime in
crime, socialisation in
society. I will look
which girls are
at the extreme
socialised at home
lengths people got
and boys are
to protect
socialised outside.etc.
themselves from
being victims of
crime.

9. Bullying
First episode will be on My second episode will be
My third episode will
cyber bullying and how it on physical bullying and
be on bullying In the
affects young peoples how peers influence young
home and how some
lives. people to become
people suffer violence
depressed.
in their houses.