Category: Pot Luck
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Explaining The Long Term Increase in Divorce
There are four main factors which can explain for the long term increase in divorce: Social policy changes Economic factor Changing gender roles Postmodernsisation. This post examines these factors and others. Social Policy Changes Social Policy changes are the first factor that explains rapidly increasing divorce in the early 1970s – the 1969 the…
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Explaining the rapid decline in the teen pregnancy rate
Why is the teen pregnancy rate declining? What are the possible sociological explanations for this dramatic trend?
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What is the significance of the ‘increase’ in student suicides?
How doe we explain the recent increase in higher education student suicides? Are there any underlying causes, or is this just a ‘moral panic’?
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From cognition to communication and co-operation: An analysis of the increasing sociality of social media
According to Fuchs (2017) Media are not technologies, but techno-social systems which comprise the social processes of cognition, communication and co-operation, and that any analysis of the changing social significance of new social media should distinguish between the extent to which they ‘allow’ these three aspects of sociality to be ‘acted out’ by users. Fuchs…
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How to get an A* in A-level Sociology (Crime and Deviance)
Drawing on marked exemplars from the AQA exam board this post unpicks what you need to do to get and A* in the the AQA’s Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods Paper (Sociology – 7192/3)
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How to get an A* in A-level Sociology
Drawing on marked exemplars from the AQA exam board this post unpicks what you need to do to get and A*
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Is social media toxic for teenagers?
Writing in The Atlantic, psychologist Jean Twenge calls children born between 1995 and 2012 the iGen – they have grown up with a smartphone in their hands and this has changed every aspect of their lives: they do much less face to face socialising that previous generations: the number of teenagers who see their friends…
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Contemporary Sociology: The poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal by the Russian State
The recent ‘russian spy poisoning’ is relevant to many areas of the A-level sociology specification, such as state-crime, globalisation and even consensus and conflict theory.
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Family and Household Diversity Update 2018
Today I’ve been messing around with creating ‘fact sheets’… it could do with a few tweaks, but I thought I’d bung this out there… It’s designed to be printed in A3! Hence the font size ten.
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Hijabs in Schools: Fostering Division?
In 2017, St Stephen’s School in Newham banned the wearing of the Hijab for girls under 8. The Head Teacher, Neena Lall, did so because she hoped the ban would help pupils better integrate into society. However, following a backlash from parents and Muslim community leaders,she reversed the decision last week. She apparently received a…
