Class, Consumption and Taste Cultures

My attention was caught the other day by a sleight little piece in a London newspaper (“12 signs you’re middle class”) that got me thinking about a neglected – but I’d argue increasingly relevant and interesting – dimension to social class: the role of taste cultures in defining different class identities. While the article is […]

SCTV Weekly Round-Up

All the Sociology and Psychology links that caught our beady little eyes this week…

Weekly Round-Up

This week’s round-up of all the sites, scenes and sounds that piqued our interest…

Podcasts for AS and A-level Sociology

With the growth of video, podcasts seem to have fallen out of fashion in recent years which is a bit of a shame because they can be useful teaching / learning aids. From a production point-of-view they’re also cheap to create and easy to distribute so it’s perhaps surprising that more aren’t made. Be that […]

Epigenetics

Short animation, taken from our forthcoming “Beyond Genetics” film featuring Guy Sutton and Nessa Carey, that shows the relationship between histones, dna and epigenetic marks.

Weekly Digest

All the links that caught our eye this past week in one handy post… Sociology Education Methods in Context Mark Scheme I’ve seen the future and it doesn’t look good: “I Teach At A For-Profit College: 5 Ridiculous Realities” Crime Manchester’s Heroin Haters – Vigilante violence? Revealed: London’s new violent crime hotspots Chief Constable confirms […]

Media Methods

One of the obvious ways to study the media is through Content Analysis and a classic – if now somewhat dated – application of the method was the Glasgow Media Group’s pioneering research, evidenced through a series of books – Bad News (1976), More Bad News (1980), Really Bad News (1982) – that examined “the […]

Family PowerPoints

As the frequent reader of this blog (“Hi”) well-knows, I collect a lot of stuff on my travels around the web and I store it safely away for times such as this – when I’ve got a blog post to write and nothing to write it about (or at least nothing that takes the minimum […]

Weekly Digest

Each week we bring you a Happy List of What’s Hot! and What’s Not So Hot! in the Wonderful World of Twitter Posts. In other words, this is what we’ve been posting about this week.