Steve Bassett’s Sociology Channel
October 15, 2024
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
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
Most a-level teachers and students will probably be most familiar with Per-Olof Wikstrom’s work on the Peterborough Adolescent Development Study (PADS), a longitudinal study of
One of the more-interesting things about the use of Situational Action Theory (SAT) to explore the relationship between crime and social disadvantage is that it
While the relationship between social disadvantage and crime has long been known, an important question that’s often ignored is why only a relatively small proportion
A short set of Notes covering a range of Functionalist explanations for crime and deviance, largely based around the concepts of anomie (both the Durkheimian
A short set of Notes looking at crime trends and patterns in England and Wales over the past 50-odd years. While students don’t require a
Introducing Journal Corner – the BSA’s new digested read for A-level Sociology.
If you’ve read the recent Mind the Gap blog post you might be thinking: “That’s all very well and good but what would be really
Key Points Recommended for those with short attention spans or too little time to spend wading through a lot of informative but quite detailed stuff.
I think it’s probably fair to say that Knowledge Organisers / Learning Tables have become a well-established part of the A-level Sociology curriculum these past
At some point around 2015 – presumably just in advance of the new Sociology Specification – the OCR Exam Board burst into action by creating
The final part of the “Structure and Organisation of Education” trilogy (Part 1: Structure and Organisation and Part 2: Schools, Marketisation and Parentocracy are, as
Unlike in the USA, where the study of “gangs” and “gang culture” – from “Street Corner Society” to “Gang Leader for A Day” – is
Although the concept of “youth culture” – a ‘shared way of life’, with its own distinctive roles, values, norms, beliefs and practices, common to young
One area of social life in which the relationship between youth and specific types of behaviour is particularly clear is that of offending behaviour. Young