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 […]
Culture and Identity: The Erasmus+ Project
Although I’m not exactly sure what the Erasmus Project was – it seems to have come to an end in 2017 – but from what I can make out from its web site it appears to have been a collaborative project between non-profit organisations in England, Poland and Slovakia designed to create and distribute resources […]
The Sociological Detectives: Hiding in Plain Sight
In this third outing in the Research Methods series, the Sociological Detectives investigate Overt Participant Observation through a simple piece of hands-on research. This PowerPoint Presentation – the 3rd in the Research Methods series (the others being The Research Process and Non-Participant Observation) – combines a hands-on approach to doing Overt Participant Observation with a […]
The Sociological Detectives: BOLO
In this research methods simulation students take on the role of Sociological Detectives to investigate formal and informal norms using non-participant observation. In the second simulation in the Research Methods series – the first, Trial and Error, introduced the Research Process – students again take-on the role of Sociological Detectives. This time, however, they are […]
Leave Nothing to Chance: An Education Simulation
“Leave Nothing to Chance” is, unless I’m very much mistaken (and I probably am), my first real attempt at a “proper classroom simulation”. I’d like to say I’m excited about it, but when all’s-said-and-done it’s only a simple simulation. On the other hand, I very much hope you like it, use it, develop it and […]
Sociology Sim: An Exercise in Inequality
As you may have gathered, I rather like simulations and this is another one I’ve found that can be added to the expanding list. This particular one was created by Chris Andrews and is interesting, at least to me, because its focus on social inequality means it has applications right across the sociological spectrum; you […]
GrudgeBallUK: Making Revision More Fun
I found this idea on a blog called Engaging Them All run by Kara Wilkins and while I’ve made a few slight additions / modifications what I describe below is essentially her work. Grudgeball is basically a team-based revision quiz game with a twist. While teams gain points for answering questions correctly, they also get […]
Trial: And Error: Online version
While PowerPoint is fine for displaying via desktop devices it’s not quite so clever when it comes to the different devices, from tablets to mobiles, potentially being used inside and outside the a-level classroom. If, therefore, you want a portable (html5) version of the Sociological Detectives Research Process Simulation that has the same functionality as […]
Trial: And Error Frontend
In response to quite literally no-one asking for it, we’ve created a Frontend – what people in The Olde Days laughingly used to call “a Menu” – for the Research Process sim. This brings together three elements of a possible lesson (the Simulation PowerPoint, Hypothetico-Deductive PowerPoint and “Nature of Science” pdf) in one handy, easy […]
The Sociological Detectives: We Have A Situation…
This PowerPoint Presentation brings together a couple of ideas, one of which – the idea of “students playing the role of detectives” I’ve previously explored in a slightly different way. The other – a situation-based application – is one I’ve adapted from a couple of recent sources: Firstly, the AQA Crime and Methods exam question […]