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					<description><![CDATA[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 very start when everyone’s still fresh and keen. And usually with the same outcome. They don’t have the time, can’t understand highly technical research, it’s all too dry and dull. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[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 rather, start here and then I’ll suggest ways you can look further afield. It seems like every couple of years I get around to thinking about those long, hot, summer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Steve Bassett’s Sociology Channel</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 earliest content here was made around 11 years ago so if you use the films you need to be aware of possible curriculum changes (in terms of topics and content [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[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 the social constructionist / Interactionist approach in Sociology, for a couple of reasons: Firstly, the Theorem &#8211; “It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct, if we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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