Marxism Sim

This is a slightly weird one because it seems to be an unfinished, abandoned, web site dating from 4 or 5 years ago created by

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Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias involves the tendency – usually, but not necessarily, unconscious – for individuals to look for and accept information that confirms what they already

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SWOTing for Success

A flexible organisational tool to help students identify, apply and evaluate perspectives, theories, concepts and methods. A couple of previous posts (Make a Pitch and

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Make A Pitch: selling sociological sausages

In response to the silent clamour (that only I could hear apparently) for something a little more substantial and pdfeffy, I’ve created a short booklet

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The Hidden Rules of (Social) Class

Although the concept of social class is deeply-embedded in A-level Sociology Specifications, a lot of time and effort nominally devoted to this concept is actually

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The Sociological Detectives: Hiding in Plain Sight

In this third outing in the Research Methods series, the Sociological Detectives investigate Overt Participant Observation through a simple piece of hands-on research. This PowerPoint

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The Sociological Detectives: BOLO

In this research methods simulation students take on the role of Sociological Detectives to investigate formal and informal norms using non-participant observation. In the second

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Sociology Sim: An Exercise in Inequality

As you may have gathered, I rather like simulations and this is another one I’ve found that can be added to the expanding list. This

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Trial: And Error: Online version

While PowerPoint is fine for displaying via desktop devices it’s not quite so clever when it comes to the different devices, from tablets to mobiles,

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Trial: And Error Frontend

In response to quite literally no-one asking for it, we’ve created a Frontend – what people in The Olde Days laughingly used to call “a

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