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If you’re looking for stuff to brighten and liven-up your classroom displays, it’s worth having a search through Pinterest for “inspirational” posters and informative infographics. You can search for Pins on whatever topic you like, but to get you started why not have a look at: Education infographics Sociology quotes Sociology Research Terms Psychology

Prison: Does it Work?

“Does prison work?” is a question whose answer depends, to some extent, on the context in which it’s framed. In the UK, for example, the rationale for imprisonment has centred around four main ideas: retribution or punishment for an offence: incapacitation – an offender cannot commit further offences while imprisoned. deterrence – the threat of […]

Family Life: Sons and Daughters

This American research by Angelina Grigoryeva has a number of interesting applications in terms of family sociology. These include: gender roles within the family the feminisation of domestic labour women’s triple shift (paid labour; domestic labour; emotional labour) pivot / sandwich generation females

Teacher-Pupil Relationships

One dimension of teacher-pupil relationships is how the former are able to encourage the latter. This article looking at the notion of praise, its benefits and whether it should be given publicly or privately for greatest effect.

Cute Concepts for A-Level Sociology: Reification

Reification is similar to the idea of anthropomorphism (giving human qualities to animals. Even if you’ve never heard of the word you’ll be familiar with what it involves from the thousands of YouTube videos, featuring cute cats and dotty dogs, that clog-up your Facebook feed. Also, every Disney cartoon that features talking mice, ducks and […]

New Media and Algorithmic Censorship

Media Sociology discussions about censorship quite understandably usually focus on various forms of human agency – whether this relates to areas like: overt forms of government censorship, where media outlets are directly controlled or censored by government (such as the ex-Soviet Union or contemporary Iran). overt and covert forms of propriatorial censorship. This might media […]