The next set in the Collections series covers both Sociology and Psychology and covers a mix of PowerPoint Presentations, some of which I’ve lifted from the Web but a lot of which I’ve created.
These, as you might expect, are not your conventional “list of bullet-points on a white screen” Presentation and so may not be to everyone’s taste.
If, however, you’re after stuff that’s a little more exotic (and interactive) then some of these might just be worth exploring.
Sociology
Introductory
Investigating Sociology: If you’re looking for a new and radically different way to kickstart your Introduction to Sociology sessions, this is the Presentation for you. Otherwise, I’d just stick to a textbook and some bullet points.
Origins of Sociology: Introduce students to 9 of Sociology’s founders using an interesting Time Line effect that, believe me, took a very long time to perfect.
Core Concepts: Culture, Identity and Socialisation.
Theories of Self and Identity: A range of theories to evaluate.
Culture and Identity: Set of official OCR Presentations.
Global Culture: 3 Views: Outlining some of the key features of three different interpretations of the impact of globalised cultural forms.
Five Methods of Socialisation: Definitions of Selective exposure, Identification, Modelling, Sanctions (rewards and punishments) and Nurturance.
Agencies of Socialisation: Identifies and explains the role of a range of primary and secondary socialising agencies: family, peers, education, workplace, media and religion.
Education
The Sociological Detectives: DEA: In this sim students take the role of “sociological detectives” investigating the reasons for differential educational achievement.
Education Part 1: Mainly Perspectives but also Identity and Achievement.
Education Part 2: Feminism, Postmodernism, Marketisation, Subcultures and a few more.
Religion
Defining Religion 1: Covers Beliefs, Practices and religious Organisation and, most wonderous of all, how did he achieve that pseudo-parallax scroll?
Defining Religion 2: More of the same except this covers diversity, inclusive and exclusive approaches.
The D.O.V.E. Protocol: 4 Functions of Religion: Teaching about the functions of religion in a slightly more interesting way.
Types of New Age (Religious) Movement: Simple way to identify and explain three different types.
New Religious Movements: 6 Characteristics: Presentation that identifies and explains Barker’s 6 characteristics of New Religious Movements.
The Sociological Detectives: Ch-Ch-Changing NRMs: Investigate a “crime scene” to unearth clues based on Eileen Barker’s observations about why NRM’s change over time.
Media
Defining the Mass Media: A pseudo-Prezzi style Presentation that basically involves a lot of zooming in and out. Quite Nice if you like that sort of thing but, personally, it just makes me feel dizzy.
Mass Media: Old and New: Mainly focuses on Globalisation and the Digital World but with a range of Presentations covering other aspect of the Mass Media.
Globalisation and the Digital World Resource Pack: Presentations covering the various Modules in this OCR Unit.
Globalisation and the Digital World: Revision Stuff: Perspectives, Developments, Impact, Conflict and Change.
Family Life
Family Bundle: Loads of Presentations from a variety of sources…
Family: Half-a-dozen Family-themed Presentations.
Childhood: March of progress; child-centred families; toxic childhood; inequality and control; patriarchy; the new sociology of childhood.
Commitments to Cohabitation: Exploring reasons for cohabitation.
Crime and Deviance
Does Prison Work? Outline of Bandyopadhyay et al’s “Acquisitive Crime: Imprisonment, Detection and Social Factors” (2012) research.
Crime and Criminology 1: Biological / Physiological theories.
Crime and Criminology 2: Psychological theories.
Crime and Criminology 3: Brief introductions to Marxism, Functionalism, Interactionism and Realism.
Crime and Criminology 4: Feminist approaches to crime.
Crime Displacement: 6 different types of crime displacement identified and explained.
Crime and Deviance Revision: Wide range of Presentations focused on revision.
Crime and Deviance: State Crime and Human Rights, Green Crime, Cybercrime.
Evaluating Crime Reduction Strategies 1. Prison Dog-training: Semi-interactive Presentation looking at Cooke and Farrington‘s (2016) meta-analysis of 7 studies evaluating whether the use of dog-training programs in some American states reduce recidivism.
Evaluating Crime Reduction Strategies 2. Scared Straight: Semi-interactive Presentation of Petrosino et al’s (2013) meta-analysis of 9 studies of Scared Straight schemes. Do they reduce reoffending? (Spoiler Alert: No].
White-collar Crime: A simple, interesting, way to introduce this topic.
Deviancy Amplification: Simple, two-slide, animation that saves you having to draw the model. Which may or may not be a Good Thing, depending upon your levels of artistic merit.
What Works to Reduce Crime?: A Summary of the Evidence: Scottish Government review (2014) of “what works” (and “what doesn’t work”) in relation to reducing crime and offending.
Sociological Stories: Broken Windows Revisited: Everything you need to know about Broken Windows and quite a bit you didn’t.
Rational Choice Theory: Brief explanation of four key ideas.
Perspectives on Crime: Functionalism, Interactionism and New Right Perspectives illustrated through a combination of text, audio and video. It’s a bit experimental.
Types of Cybercrime: Identifying and explaining a range of different cybercrimes.
Situational Crime Prevention: Examples of different SCP techniques.
Routine Activities: Simple, visual, way to introduce the key components of the theory.
Hot Products: Situational Crime Prevention and the characteristics of “hot products” – the goods valued by burglars, street criminals, etc.
Measuring Crime: Massive Presentation covering various aspects of crime measurement (not as dull as it sounds).
Offender Profiling: A scenario-based an overview of offender profiling covering evidence and the crime scene, British and American approaches to profiling and examples of profiling successes and failures.
Non-Sociological v. Labelling Approaches to Crime: Comparing the two approaches to crime.
The Functions of Crime: Combines text, graphics, audio and video to outline four types of Functionalist theory on crime and deviance: Durkheimian, Strain (Merton), General Strain and Subcultural. Again, it’s Quite Experimental so don’t come blubbing to me if it all ends in tears…
The Sociological Detectives: We Have A Situation: Simulation that makes students apply sociological theories of crime to explain the behaviour of youth offenders.
Theory Take Five: Presentation that includes a small number of crime theorists (Carlen, Becker, Pollack etc.) with the focus on “5 things I know” about them…
Crime and Deviance: Dozen or so Presentations from a variety of authors covering a variety of topics and themes.
Left Realism: Presentation that visualises three-cornered approach to deviance, the criminogenic triangle and the square of crime.
Strain Theory: Simple visualisation with examples.
Revising Crime: Large selection of Presentations covering Theories, Social Distribution, Globalisation and more.
Research Methods
Sweet Sampling: How to introduce different types of sampling. Using sweets.
Sociological Stories: Sociology and Science: Covers What is science? Is sociology a science? Value-freedom and Types of data.
The Sociological Detectives: Trial: And Error: Role-playing simulation of the Research Process (specifically, Popper’s Hypothetico-Deductive Model). There’s also a Frontend menu system available.
Interpretivism: Emergent (Exploratory) Research: An alternate model of the research process.
The Sociological Detectives: BOLO: Simulate non-participant observation.
The Sociological Detectives: Hiding in Plain Sight: Taking a hands-on approach to understanding Overt Participant Observation.
Social Inequality
Visualising Class Structures: Visual representations of ten different class structures / variations, accompanied by some of the key ideas involved in each classification.
Social Inequality Smoothies: A simple way to help students visualise different aspects of social inequality (glass ceiling, glass cliff face etc.).
How Inequalities Create Inequality: Replace that “ladder analogy” with something better.
Types of Cultural Capital: Embodied, Objectified and Institutionalised briefly explained.
Middle Class Identities |1: Identifying and explaining a range of occupational identities.
Middle Class Identities | 2: Identifying and explaining a range of cultural identities.
Visualising Social Mobility: A Mountain to Climb?: Visualising social mobility in terms of a mountain – rather than a ladder – to climb.
General
Luman Learning: Huge range of Presentations covering a variety of different modules. The slides are fairly basic “bullet-point” lists with a few pix thrown in to lighten the load.
Sociology and You: Supporting Materials: Presentations to support the Sociology and You textbook.
ACIE: Presentations covering Introductory sociology, Research Methods and Family.
Psychology
Luman Learning: Set of “traditional” (i.e. lots of bullet-points) PowerPoints covering wide range of Introcutory topics.
The Strange Situation: 5 sections (Aims, Procedure, Findings, Conclusions, Evaluation) designed to introduce students to the basic methodology involved in the experiment.
The Bobo Doll Experiment: As above, but focused on Bandura’s classic Social Learning experiment.
PsychEd: AS / A2 covering things like different perspectives.
Classic Studies: Bandura, Loftus, Milgram, Zimbardo and Ainsworth.
Ms. Rives’ AP Psychology: Approaches, Methods, Perception and more…
Confirmation Bias: A simulation.
Psychology Studies Mat: Template that allows students to summarise Background, Aims, Sample, Design and Procedure of a named study.
Miscellaneous
The ABC of Investigating: Classroom exercise designed to help them interpret and explore information.
Creating Curious Presentations: the medium is not the message: Creating Presentations that arose your students’ curiosity…
Sociological Detectives: An End Has A Start: Learn a new teaching technique.
Revision Cards: Perspectives, Family, Deviance, Methods…
Learning Mats: Simple visual aids:
Activity: Short and simple activities for students to practice.
Generic version: build your own Learning Mat.
Transferable Concepts and Transgressive Thinking: A simple classroom exercise to demonstrate how students can use these ideas in their work.
Cherry-Picking Revision: Helping students to identify key ideas they can “cherry-pick” to answer exam-type questions.
Gamified Homework: Three possible ways to give your students a little bit of control over their homework (while actually encouraging them to do more…):
Graphic Organisers: Different ways students can organise their notes and ideas graphically:
Themes and Directives: Essay Planning: Classroom tool you can use to introduce students to a way of planning answers to high-mark, extended answer (essay) questions.
The Memory Clock: Interesting revision technique.
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