Psych’d Magazine
Psych’d is a twice-yearly (October and July) Psychology Magazine, published by WJEC (formerly the Welsh Joint Examining Committee) and designed, in the words of its editor, “to provide key information, suggestions for teaching, updates and news as well as interesting features relating to our WJEC and Eduqas Psychology qualifications”. Although the magazine contains stuff (applying […]
GCSE Psychology: Revision Booklet
The final offering in this short GCSE Psychology series is a revision booklet by R Cummins of Knowsley College that covers both Unit 1: Making sense of other people (Memory, Non-verbal communication, Development of personality, Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination and Research methods). Unit 2: Understanding other people (Learning, Social influence, Sex and Gender, Aggression, and […]
GCSE Psychology: Unit 2
Having posted stuff for AQA Psychology Unit 1 it’s probably only fair to do the same for Unit 2 so today’s post focuses on two offerings 1. Understanding Other People: This resource, created by T Mitchell, consists of information and activities – plus a few revision tips – focused on various aspects of Conditioning. There’s […]
GCSE Psychology: Unit 1
Having spent the past few weeks furiously editing videos we’re licensing to a couple of British and American publishers, one of the joys of having a bit of spare time is the opportunity for a random-trawl through my hard drives looking for stuff that “might be useful to someone, sometime”. The stuff I’ve selected today […]
Patterns of Crime and the Social Characteristics of Offenders: Gender and Ethnicity
After a brief hiatus, we’re back to business with a fifth example of Jill Swale’s ATSS work, this one focusing on patterns of offending and how differences based on gender and ethnicity (you can easily add further variables, such as age, to the exercise if you want) can be identified and explained. The exercise itself […]
NotAFactsheet: Miscellaneous Methods
Another small batch of NotAFactsheets covering a miscellaneous melange of methods-related stuff – some essential, some less so (but probably nice to know, just in case you want to impress the examiner with your wide-ranging and perceptive grasp of all things methodological. Or maybe not). M9. Quantitative and Qualitative Data M10. Strong and Weak Feminist […]
Methods in Context: Overt Participant Observation
For some reason I thought I’d already blogged this document, but it seems I’d put it on the Sociology Central web site but not here. To rectify the omission, therefore, this document uses Sudhir Venkatesh’s “Gang Leader For a Day” study as the basis for an outline and evaluation – the advantages and disadvantages – […]
NotAFactsheet: Interpretivist Methods
Continuing the Research Methods theme of recent posts, these NotAFactsheets focus on a range of methods associated with Interpretivist research: M4a. Research Methods: this outlines different types of interview: semi-structured, unstructured and focus groups. M4b. Research Methods: observational methods are one of the staples of Interpretivist research and this outlines non-participant observation, covert and overt participant observation. […]
NotAFactsheet: Research Ethics
This NotAFactsheet on Research Ethics is a slight departure from previous NotAFactsheets in that it comes in two flavours: 1. The normal “text with box-outs and pictures-if-you’re-lucky” version. 2. An experimental version with an added bit of embedded video (click-the-pic-to-play). Although not ideal, the video is in Flash (.flv) format for reasons that are much […]
Sociology Shortcuts: NotAFactsheets
Over the past few weeks I’ve published a small selection of Curriculum Press Sociology Factsheets and the response to these set me thinking about creating some of my own, using a similar format – although I’ve decided not to call what I’ve produced “Factsheets”, mainly because they aren’t. Anyway, I posted my first attempt at a […]
Sociology ShortCuts F’sheet
I’ve posted a couple of times about the Sociology Factsheets produced by Curriculum Press – particularly about how it might be an idea for teachers to get their students to make their own versions as both a revision aid and teaching resource for future sociology students – and I thought it might be interesting to […]
A Few More Sociology Factsheets
A previous post featured a selection of the Factsheets produced by The Curriculum Press and since this post I’ve managed to collect a few more Factsheets from various corners of the Web. These, oddly enough, all relate in some way to Research Methods… Experiments Overt Participant Observation Positivism and Interpretivism Qualitative Research Crime statistics
Interpretivism: Emergent (Exploratory) Research
Although the Hypothetico-deductive model describes an important way of doing research, by way of contrast (since not all sociologists believe the same things or do things in exactly the same way) we can look at an alternative “emergent (exploratory) research” model that can be closely associated with Interpretivist methodology. In general, this type of model […]
PowerPoint: The Hypothetico-Deductive Model
This is a simple one-slide PowerPoint presentation of Popper’s classic model of scientific research. The presentation contains two versions: Click-to-advance: this allows teachers to reveal each element in the model at their own pace. This is useful if you want to talk about each of the elements before revealing the next. Self-advancing: if you want […]
A2 Psychology: Research Methods Free Chapter
One of the simple pleasures of Wandering the Web™ for a living, made all the more enjoyable by that intangible sense of the unexpected (I know, I live my life through contradictions), is coming across Stuff That Is Free. My not-so-little face lights up at the mere thought of finding Something For Nothing, even though […]