How to Bubble Mark Summative Essays…
Although I’ve got a sneaking suspicion I’ve written about this marking technique before, I can’t find any trace of it so it’s entirely possible I might have dreamt it. Be that as it may, if you’re in the market for a quick’n’dirty way to efficiently mark a pile of summative essays (the kind you might […]
Defining and Measuring Crime: The Cyber Dimension
One of the most interesting developments in criminology over the past 25 years is the extent to which crime has moved online, something that has important ramifications for the sociology of crime and deviance, both in terms of how it’s theorised and how it’s taught. When thinking about the different ways crime can be defined […]
Aspiring to Succeed? Education and the New Right
One of the key features of New Right approaches to explaining social class differences in educational achievement is the attempt to frame the debate in terms of the qualities possessed by individual actors. This reductionist approach – reducing complex social processes to their apparently simplest and most basic forms – sees success or failure (as […]