Labelling Theory
Crime and Deviance: Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control, but in the 1960’s Labelling Theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and its consequences. This film documents the rise and subsequent fall of Labelling Theory and illustrates how aspects of it continue to influence contemporary criminology and criminal […]
Childhood and New Technology
Family and Social Change Series: This film explores some of the ways new communication technologies and surveillance software impact on ideas of children and childhood in contemporary societies.
The End of Childhood?
Family and Social Change Series: Is childhood disappearing in contemporary societies? This film uses Jane Pilcher’s contemporary case study on fashion and the sexualisation of girls to examine this question.
Family and Social Change
Family and Social Chanage Series: To what extent are recent changes in family life a reflection of wider social changes in late modern societies? In this short film Dr Steven Taylor examines this question by looking at major social changes in culture, consumerism and identity and how they relate to family life and development.
Family Diversity
Family and Social Change Series: In this film Dr Steven Taylor examines family diversity through a range of measures – including marriage, divorce, cohabitation and birth rates – that suggest how and why the structure, organisation and culture of family life is changing in late modernity.
Sociology and Common Sense
Introducing Sociology Series: Does Sociology go beyond commonsense and, if so, how? Dr Steven Taylor addresses this question by: introducing students to some key principles of thinking sociologically comparing the differences between sociological and commonsense thinking in relation to crime.
Social Constructionism
Introducing Sociology Series: This film introduces the key concept of social construction and looks at how cultures teach us to see the world in certain ways. Dr Steven Taylor illustrateds this by looking at and comparing cross cultural constructions of gender.
Identity
Introducing Sociology Series: In this activity-based film Dr Steven Taylor looks at the interaction between the individual and society through the concept of identity, with a particualr focus on illustrating and explaining the difference between personal and social identities.
What Is Sociology?
Introducing Sociology Series: In this short film Dr Steven Taylor provides a concise and accessible introduction to sociology for students new to the subject. It introduces, outlines and examines four key areas covered at the start of any course: the distinction between social and sociological problems. the problem of order. how to explain social change […]