Tag: what is sociology

  • An Introduction to AS and A Level Sociology

    Good Resources to explore further The Sociological Imagination by C Wright Mills (Amazon link) A summary of thinking sociologically chapter one by Bauman and May (ReviseSociology) A fairly in-depth web based summary of Thinking Sociologically by Bauman and May Meet the Natives – is a good video to show the extent to which norms and…

  • Sociological Explanations of Educational Underachievement

    This post attempts to demonstrate what sociology is by examining how the discipline approaches one particular issue – why some children do worse at school than others…from a sociological perspective, educational failure is not simply down to the individual! The easiest way to illustrate the sociological imagination, and to demonstrate how sociologists ‘do sociology’ is…