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Toxic Childhood – Sociology In the News!

Sue Palmer’s (2006) book Toxic Childhood argued that children were being harmed by a combination of technological and social changes […]

Karl Thompson / December 20, 2016

A couple of not very pleasant news-items which relate to the problems of the ‘ageing population’: The U.K. is on

An overview of the entire course for AS and first year A level sociology covering the following ‘modules’: Education with

Subtopics 5.1 – To what extent is ‘childhood socially constructed’ 5.2 – The March of Progress view of childhood (and

Families and Households Topic 4 – Changes within the family Gender Roles, Domestic Labour and Power Relationships Overview of the

married family households are decreasing, cohabiting family, lone parent family and single parent family households are all increasing.

If a couple were to discuss honestly how a modern ‘pure relationship’ is likely to pan out then the conversation

Karl Thompson / December 17, 2015

How do social policies affect family life?

There are several inequalities between children including those based around social class and income, gender and ethnicity.