BBC “Analysis” Podcasts

Over the past 10 years BBC Radio 4’s Analysis series has created a range of podcasts “examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad, presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics”. There are over 200 podcasts to trawl through, many of which won’t be of any interest or use to sociology […]

Gay Best Friends as Consumers and Commodities

If you’re looking for something slightly different to incorporate into your Culture and Identity / Media Sociology teaching this book chapter on “Effeminacy and Expertise, Excess and Equality: Gay Best Friends as Consumers and Commodities in Contemporary Television” by Susie Khamis and Anthony Lambert might well fit the bill. Of particular interest here might be […]

Methods, Mobiles and Media

Research Methods can be a little abstract and dry (teacher-speak for dull), particularly when opportunities to experience and apply what’s being taught are limited by things like time and a lack of easy access to suitable research subjects. This is where Steven Thomas’ “Patterns of Mobile Phone Use” article might help. The research example it […]

What’s in the Envelope?

This activity from Sharon Martin is relatively simple to set-up and run and, as an added bonus, can be used with any area of the Specification (both Psychology and Sociology): this example is based on the Sociology of Crime and Deviance. The activity is mainly for revision / recap sessions, although there’s probably no reason […]

Sociology and Issues in the News

This simple activity, culled once more from the ATSS archive, has a dual purpose in terms of helping students: 1.     Develop a critical and sociological understanding of “news” and how it is socially constructed and presented. 2.     Interpret and apply sociological knowledge to real social situations. The activity requires no great preparation and involves students […]

Making the Sociology of Crime and Deviance 10 Years Younger

Let’s face it the A2 Crime and Deviance syllabus is looking old. The years of blocked aspiration, anomie, unjust labelling and misplaced radicalism have taken their toll. A recent shopping mall poll put most the major theories at pensionable age, and even the dynamic ‘young’ radical ones were seen as ‘pushing 40’! But we have […]

Situational Crime Prevention Video

This is a video version of the Cornish and Clarke Situational Crime Prevention PowerPoint presentation. The film runs for around 3 minutes.

Categorising SCP: Techniques and Examples

The first post in this short series outlined what Cornish and Clarke (2003) called 5 Situational Crime Prevention strategies and this PowerPoint Presentation develops this to include what they argued were “25 crime prevention techniques” associated with these strategies. In the presentation each technique is both briefly explained and illustrated. This material is presented as […]

Categorising Situational Crime Prevention Strategies

Situational crime prevention is an area that has grown in significance over the past 30 years, both in terms of social policies towards crime and sociological / criminological solutions to “the problem of crime”; it involves, according to Clarke (1997), a range of measures designed to reduce or eliminate “opportunities for crime” in three main […]