A Modest Proposal for Structured Sociology Teaching: Part 1

It’s a fair bet that sometime within the first few weeks of teaching you’re going to be talking, if only in very basic terms, about the distinction between structure and action and its significance in Sociology. I’ve done this a number of ways in the past, using something like Meighan’s concept of “haunting” as a […]

A Modest Proposal for Structured Sociology Teaching: Part 2

Part 1 looked at what we might think of as the bare bones of a structured sociology teaching schema and in part 2 we can start to add some visual and verbal flesh to this skeleton. What we’re aiming to do here is create a structure that’s simple enough for students to remember and easy […]

A Modest Proposal for Structured Sociology Teaching: Part 3

The previous post identified and briefly outlined the 5 categories that make-up the Structured Teaching scheme and in this post we can look at each category in a little more detail by way of a “worked example” based around Differential Educational Achievement. We can start with a visual example of what a mind-mapped structure might […]