SCTV Weekly Round-Up

Our weekly round-up of all the best sociology and psychology links…

Sociology

Crime

Toxic Masculinity and Murder

Fingerprint matching is biased by the assessor’s prejudices

Amoral panics video

Education

Interesting US data on class, ethnicity and educational achievement (Spoiler: confirms all you suspected)

DfE fails to rebroker 70 per cent of failing academies

Parents who think failure is harmful to learning have children who think ability is fixed

Theory and Methods

Social Policy “Should academics be expected to change policy?” 6 reasons why not…

What do Liberal and Radical Feminist Believe?

Robert Merton’s Internal Critique of Functionalism

Psychology

Teaching Psychology? Have a look at this preview of “Classroom posters for psychological approaches”

Psychology A-level student Facebook group

Miscellaneous

The Weekly Routine of a Straight A Student (with 8 steps to create your own)