Revise Sociology on Facebook, Twitter and the Rest…
Below are some links to the main social media sites I use. If you like this sort of sociology thang, […]
Media, Social media
Sociology
Book summaries
The Mars Trilogy – Good Sociology Novels!
I thought I’d take the unusual step of plugging a series of novels in this post…. The ‘Mars Trilogy’ by
Sociology on TV
Return to Eden and Eden Lost – A Case Study in Problematic Masculinity?
Starting in Spring 2016, Channel 4’s ‘Return to Eden’ was a year long social experiment in which 23 people moved
Sex and gender, Sociology key terms
What is Patriarchy?
Working definition The systematic domination of women by men in some or all of society’s spheres and institutions Origins of
content analysis, research methods
The Internet as an Object of Content Analysis
Websites, social media posts and similar virtual documents are all forms of secondary data, and thus amenable to both quantitative
teaching and learning theory
Sentence Sorts for Teaching A-Level Sociology – How Useful Are They?
Matching exercises or ‘sentence sorts’ simply involve students matching the concept/ sociologist/ perspective/ method to a definition/ statement. Simple example:
experiments, Sociology on TV
Social Experiments on T.V.
There have been a lot of T.V. productions which have run ‘social experiments’ in recent years. This post simply outlines
Marxism, Sociology key terms
What is Alienation?
Capitalist production alienates workers from their products, their labour power, themselves and their own souls.
teaching and learning theory
How I Structure A-Level Sociology Lessons
Below is an overview of broad structure I use to teach every topic in the A-level sociology syllabus, and it’s
Ethnicity, Race and Ethnicity
An Introduction to Ethnicity
ethnicity is cultural, and often contrasted to ‘race’ which refers to biological differences.