Modernity and Postmodernity

Don’t know your Foundationalism from your Anti-Essentialism? Your agile corporation from your Post-Fordist or, indeed your simulacra from your elbow? If reality causes you confusion (but you’ve got a sneaking suspicion “The Truth” is out there, somewhere) then thisĀ free book chapter (taken from A2 Sociology for AQA), is probably just what you need to start […]

New Recipe Card (CIE AS Sociology)

In a previous post we looked at the general ideas / principles underpinning the concept of Recipe Cards using examples drawn from the AQA Examining Board. To balance things up a little this Recipe Card, based on the AS Family section of the CIE International A-level Sociology syllabus, is designed to help students answer the […]

An Alternative to A-level Sociology 2015

September 2015 in England and Wales sees yet another educational change in the shape of “new A-levels”- which are sort-of “new old A-levels” in terms of a structure that harks back to the “Good-old-Bad-old days” (pre-2000 in new money). Although it will still be possible for students to take both an “AS-level” qualification and an […]

Recipe Cards: AS Sociology

Having made an inital, a2 sociology recipe card for crime and deviance (plus a blank template that can be used to create your own personal recipe card) I thought I’d turn my hand to as sociology. This recipe card is built around a Families and Households question.

Recipe Card: Word Template

While it’s possible to edit the blank pdf Recipe Card template, you need to have the right software. If you haven’t got it this can be a complete pain and also reduces you or your students to adding the ingredients to the card by hand. This is likely to cause problems when students make mistakes […]

Recipe for Success: Part 2

Have now put together a “proper” recipe card – this uses the text in the previous post for the A2 Crime and Deviance question “Assess sociological explanations of the role of the mass media in creating moral panics about crime and deviance. (21 marks)”. Download the recipe card for this essay. Have also created a […]

Recipe for Success

This is an idea I’ve just started to kick around: it’s by no-means fully-formed and if you think it might have some mileage, all contributions / suggestions are very welcome. In basic terms it’s a way to get students to think about how they construct answers to essay-type questions by using an analogy – in […]