Psychology: Lesson Elements

As with its sociological counterpart – except more-so, this set of resources from the OCR Exam Board is designed to support teaching and learning for

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Education: 4. Role and Function: 2. Marxism and Neo-Marxism

marxism For traditional Marxism the main role and function of education is cultural reproduction – a concept based on a different interpretation of secondary socialisation

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Education: 3. The Purpose of Schools

The final part of the “Structure and Organisation of Education” trilogy (Part 1: Structure and Organisation and Part 2: Schools, Marketisation and Parentocracy are, as

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The Sociology Teacher

If you’re familiar with the work of the British Sociological Association – and the Discover Sociology section dedicated to A-level-sociology in particular – you’ll probably

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Of Methods and Methodology 6 | Practical Research Considerations

Sociologists do research for a wide range of reasons and in this post we’re looking at a range of practical research considerations relating to, firstly,

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Progress Mat

Although the idea of “learning progression” is something to which all teachers aim – if there was no progress there probably wouldn’t be much point

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Attitudes to Marriage in China

As you may be aware, from time-to-time I’ve featured a variety of short pieces of research, on a range of topics, carried-out by Richard Driscoll’s students

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Visualising Social Mobility: A Mountain to Climb?

Broadly-speaking, the underlying idea here is to both make the study of social mobility slightly less dull and to replace a somewhat hackneyed, not-to-say, highly

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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

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Weekly Digest

All the links that caught our eye this past week in one handy post… Sociology Education Methods in Context Mark Scheme I’ve seen the future

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