Understanding Media and Culture: Free Textbook
Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication (to give it its full title) is a textbook, released under a Creative Commons licence by the University of Minnesota, that’s free to read, copy and share – which makes it especially useful for schools / colleges or students on a tight budget. Under this particular […]
Introduction to Psychology: The Noba Collection
The simplest way to describe The Noba Project is that it’s a collection of free Introductory Psychology (Psychology 101) modules designed to fulfil, in the words of its creators, three main aims: 1. To reduce the financial burden on students by providing access to free educational content. 2. To provide instructors with a platform to […]
More Free Sociology Texts
This post continues the Great Sociology Textbook Giveaway by stretching the definition of “textbook” to breaking-point with a dictionary, encyclopaedia and, in an SCTV first, an actual text published by a real UK publisher. Following hard on the heals of the first set of textbooks comes another batch of free Sociology texts I’d like you […]
Sociology Textbooks From Around The Web
A couple of days ago I posted a link to a free, open-source, textbook (Introduction to Sociology), the open-availability of which made me think about whether there were any other sociology books lying around in some dusty corner of the web just waiting to be found, dusted-down and presented to a wider audience. And the […]
Office Online: For Free (and Quite Legal)
The free version of Microsoft’s Office Suite may have a reduced functionality when compared to the desktop version but for “no money” it has to be a bit of a bargain for both teachers and students. While applications like Word and PowerPoint are probably staples of any teaching toolkit, they can be expensive, even when […]
Free Resources: Napier Press
It’s probably fair to say that “A-level Sociology” by Webb et al is one of the best-selling textbooks for the AQA Specification and if you follow this Spec. or, more importantly perhaps, use this book the resources available on the Napier Press web site should come in handy. If you don’t use this text the […]
11 | The Research Process: Part 4
The final part of the Research Methods chapter covers the use of mixed methods in the context of sociological research and is split into three theoretically-discrete, but related, areas: 1. Methodological pluralism involves the idea of combining methodologies, methods and data types to arrive at a more-rounded, reliable and valid insight into social behaviour. 2. […]
9 | The Research Process: Part 2
The focus here is quantitative data and research, with the free chapter split into three discrete, but necessarily related, parts. The first part outlines a selection of primary quantitative research methods (questionnaires, structured interviews and content analysis) and evaluates their strengths and weaknesses. The second part does something similar for secondary quantitative methods (official and […]
6 | Families and Households: Part 3
After the raw, enervating, excitement of Family Trends and the Role of Family in Society, the rollercoaster ride that is Family Life continues with the unalloyed joy that is Family Diversity. While some commentators (who shall remain nameless because I haven’t named them) have described family diversity as a “thrill-a-minute fun-fest filled with fantastic fripperies”, […]
GCSE Psychology: How is non-verbal behaviour explained?
Free chapter on non-verbal behaviour from OUP’s AQA GCSE Psychology 2nd Edition that outlines: • Darwin’s evolutionary theory of non-verbal communication • Is non-verbal behaviour innate? • Is non-verbal behaviour learned? • Yuki’s emoticons study (2007) The Oxford Education Blog is also worth a visit – a very useful resource for A-level and GCSE Psychology