Left Realism

In an earlier post I supplemented a PowerPoint visualisation of Left Realism’s “three-cornered approach” to understanding crime and deviance with a more-detailed explanation of how the approach generally works and revisiting this post to see if I could scavenge anything worth adding to the Crime and Deviance Channel made me think that displaying the text […]

The Crime and Deviance Channel

The Crime and Deviance Channel now offers a wide range of free Text, PowerPoint, Audio and Video resources organised into 5 categories: 1. Theories 2. Social Distribution 3. Power and Control 4. Globalisation 5. Research Methods Each category contains a mix of content: • Text materials range from complete pdf chapters to a variety of […]

Risk: Ulrich Beck

If you want the concept of Risk Society clearly and concisely explained, who better to ask than the person who invented the idea? So we did. By interviewing him. And this is what he had to say. That’s about it really. Oh Yeah. The clip’s only about a minute long. Which is hopefully enough for […]

The Sociological Detectives: Ch-Ch-Changing NRMs

Another in the New Religious Movements series of PowerPoint Presentations, this uses the Sociological Detective format to investigate a “crime scene” to unearth various clues based on Eileen Barker’s observations about why NRM’s change over time. The basic idea is that as each clue is unveiled it contributes towards an understanding of Movement change and […]

Participate Collections

If you’re Pining for Padlet now it’s started to charge and place restrictions on its free accounts, you might be looking for a new home for your shared resources. If that’s the case (or even if it’s not) you could do worse than have a look at Participate Collections, a site where you can store […]

GCSE Sociology Guides: Family and Education

GCSE Sociology resources tend to be a little thin on the ground, so it’s always nice to come across decent teacher-created material such as these two bang-up-to-the-moment Revision Guides created by Kate Henney. The Family Guide is a 25-page document that packs in a whole range of resources covering family types, diversity, alternatives, perspectives, roles […]

New Religious Movements: Who Joins?

Another PowerPoint in what’s rapidly evolving into some sort of NRM-based series. This, as you might expect, complements the previously-posted Characteristics and Pathways Presentations and draws once more on the work of Professor Eileen Barker. There’s not a lot to say about it except that it’s a deceptively-simple Presentation that identifies and outlines Characteristics.