Updating Crime & Deviance
Day Workshop with renowned sociologist and film-maker, Dr Steve Taylor Strain, Labelling, Realism etc. are still important because they underpin a lot of research in the contemporary study of Crime and Deviance. But supposing your students could demonstrate this with new concepts & 21st. Century research examples? This Workshop consolidates the key theories and concepts […]
Seven Sims in Seven Days – Day 5: Trial by Jury
As with some of the others in this series, “Trial by Jury” is a building block sim that gives you a basic template that can be used to organise and run a wide range of possible simulations. In basic terms if there’s an area of the Sociology / Psychology course that involves comparing and contrasting […]
“It’s just banter”: Applying Matza’s “techniques of neutralisation” to #everydaysexism
Although Matza’s ideas about “Delinquency and Drift” are 50 years old, this doesn’t mean they can’t be applied to contemporary examples in the A-level classroom – as this video with its examples of “Misogyny in British universities” probably attests. This kind of material also illustrates two further ideas that are worth exploring: a. The rarity […]
An Alternative to A-level Sociology 2015
September 2015 in England and Wales sees yet another educational change in the shape of “new A-levels”- which are sort-of “new old A-levels” in terms of a structure that harks back to the “Good-old-Bad-old days” (pre-2000 in new money). Although it will still be possible for students to take both an “AS-level” qualification and an […]
Recipe Card: Word Template
While it’s possible to edit the blank pdf Recipe Card template, you need to have the right software. If you haven’t got it this can be a complete pain and also reduces you or your students to adding the ingredients to the card by hand. This is likely to cause problems when students make mistakes […]
New Media: 2. Issues
The various features of new media raise a new set of issues for both producers and consumers. In terms of the former, for example, the development of global computer networks have presented problems for media industries whose products are relatively easy to copy and distribute, with no loss of quality because of digital reproduction. The […]
Crime Statistics: The Dark Figure video
A request from an American University to use this video in an online course prompted me to remember its existence on my YouTube Channel. It’s a short video that looks at the “dark figure” of crime – crimes that are committed in our society but which never appear in the official recorded crime statistics. As such […]
Ruling class or Power Elite? A contemporary application of C. Wright Mills?
If you’re looking for ways to give the concept of a Power Elite a contemporary classroom update you might like to think of how it can be applied in the context of a “War on Terror” and NSA / GNCQ surveillance. Noam Chomsky’s article “Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself and the Corporate Sector” contains […]