Tag: perspectives
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Sociological Perspectives on the 2020 Downing Street Christmas Party
There seems to be increasing evidence that around three dozen people attended a party at Downing Street in December 2020, shortly after tier three lockdown restrictions were introduced. These lockdown rules explicitly prohibited people from having social gatherings (like Christmas Parties) and even prevented people from visiting their relatives who were in care homes or…
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Sociological Perspectives on the 2020 Exam results fiasco
What a mess this years exam results were! First of all students get awarded their results based primarily on an algorithm, which adjusted center predicted grades up or down depending on how their historical results records. Then those results were scrapped in favour of the original teacher predicted grades, awarded several months ago, unless the…
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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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Sociological Perspectives on Hate Crime
What is Hate Crime? The Home Office defines Hate Crime as ‘ ‘Any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic.’ (Hate Crime, England and Wales, 2018-19). There are five main characteristics which the police monitor….. race…
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The globalisation of education
three examples of the globalisation are: PISA tests and league tables, international companies providing education services in more than one country, private schools and universities expanding into more than one country.