Sociology Shortcuts Magazine No.2: The Mass Media Issue

The first proper issue of Sociology Shortcuts Magazine (Issue No.1: Risk Society was basically just me doodling around on a new Desktop Publisher to see

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Sociology Magazine No.1: Risk Society:

Some time ago we shelled-out for new Publishing software to replace the tried-and-trusted PagePlus we’d been using for donkey’s years. It’s replacement, Affinity Publisher, was

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Left Realism: Key Ideas and Criticisms

Left Realism is one of the major criminological theories at A-level  and, for this reason, it’s one that students need to know well. The following,

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Revision Mapping Research Methods

While I’ve previously posted a Revision Map on Sociological Perspectives I never, for some reason, got around to posting further Maps (at least, not in

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Risk Society

Beck’s complex and at times convoluted arguments around the concept of Risk Society arguably make it one of the more-difficult theoretical areas to cover at

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Research Methods: Triangulation

Over the past few years the concept of triangulation has become increasingly central to an understanding of both research methodology and methods – their strengths,

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The Crime Collection

In a previous post I pulled-together all the free crime and deviance films we have available to create a simple one-stop-shop (so to speak) you

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Thinking About: Left Realism

Left Realism is, as you probably know, one of the staple “crime theories” in a-level sociology (and if you didn’t, you do now) about which

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Mass Media | Complete Chapter

Over the past few weeks (months? I lose track) I’ve been assiduously assembling a series of mass media booklets from Notes that have been hanging

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Mass Media 4 | Representations

The fourth chapter in what’s turning into, for me at least, an interminable churn through reams of notes and dtp design follows Defining and Researching

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