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Sociology
Crime
Why law banning legal highs will fail
Deviance Amplification Spiral? “Legal high ban predicted to exacerbate crisis on streets”
Beliefs in Society
The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God
Voters on the extreme left and right are far more likely to believe in conspiracy theories
Understanding the English Defence League: living on the front line of a ‘clash of civilisation’
Education
Meg Rosoff condemns UK education policy as an ‘assault on childhood’
“Female academics face huge sexist bias” – critical in context of “student satisfaction” metrics
University staff will be held to ransom by student consumers
Culture and Identity
Class, Consumption and Cultures of Taste: simple examples: “12 signs you’re middle class”
Watch a man released from prison after 44 years react to today’s technology
Why aren’t there more women in science? The industry structure is sexist
Video: Losing our accents: are Britons all starting to sound the same?
Family
So now pregnancy is a prize for women who lead a ‘good life’
Social Inequality
TV can’t tell us what it’s really like to live on benefits
Media
The secret army of cheerleaders policing China’s internet
The celebrity privacy case that exposes hypocrisy of Silicon Valley power brokers
Labour MP receives 600 rape threats in one night
Methods
Covert PO / Ethics: Dear ‘Vicky’: secretly filming other social workers broke our trust
Psychology
Free full-text Forensic Psychology articles
Miscellaneous
If learning feels easy, you might be doing it wrong
Revision time! Sociology Revision Videos
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