Sociology Noir: This Sociological Life
October 13, 2026
The second in the Sociology Noir series, This Sociological Life, is a prequel to the original Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Whodunnit, Curtain Call at the Lantern and both
The second in the Sociology Noir series, This Sociological Life, is a prequel to the original Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Whodunnit, Curtain Call at the Lantern and both
Encouraging students to read more widely than their given textbook is something most sociology teachers do at some point in the course. Usually at the
If you’re looking around for some inspiration for “Transition Work” you can set your prospective students over the coming summer months, look no further. Or
Steve Bassett’s Channel consists of around 250 reasonably short (10 – 15 minutes mostly) “video lectures”, the last was made around 6 years ago. The
The Thomas Theorem, created by W.I.Thomas and his wife Dorothy (The Child in America, 1928), is a simple and interesting way to introduce students to
A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete
If you’re a teacher looking to spice-up those first Introductory lessons – the ones where you talk your students through “the basics” of Sociology and
If you’re interested in free textbooks – of either the Sociology or Psychology variety – you may well have come across the Openstax Introduction to
Another in the “Podcasts with Pictures” series designed to bring to your attention video materials you or your students might find useful. In this instance
This new PowerPoint Presentation introduces students to some (okay, 9) of Sociology’s founders, from the Big Three of Marx, Durkheim and Weber to lesser-known, but
The 4th set of Collections covers Introductory Sociology stuff such as culture, identity, socialisation and perspectives.
Although, when all’s-said-and-done it’s just a handy list of posts overing blog material from the past 10 years it’s quite nice to have it all in one place.
Issue 3 of Sociology Shortcuts Magazine arrives just-in-time for the start of the new school year, which is just as well because the Intro Issue
A great deal of discussion about identity in a-level Sociology can be fairly abstract and concerned with the mechanics of construction: how and why, for
It’s a strange-but-true factette that in the 8 years – and nearly 800 posts – this blog has been active one post has stood head-and-shoulders
I always found giving students an “Introduction to Sociology” – whether as part of a recruitment or induction process, first lesson or whatever – something