Media and Aggression

Media Effects: Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social learning, script

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Unmasking: The End of Debate?

Sociological Theory: Unmasking is an extreme form of criticism that is becoming increasingly prevalent in social science and everyday discourse where individuals are accused of

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Making Friends with Research Methods

Research Methods: Understanding research methods isn’t easy for many students and, strange-to-say, a lot of them also find it boring. This film uses different techniques

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Introducing Triangulation

Research Methods: All research strategies, practices and methods have their limitations and the most common way of trying to offset these limitations is by using

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Case Studies

Research Methods: If you go and see your doctor or a therapist, you’ll become a ‘case’ to them. They’ll want to know a lot more

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Participant Observation

Research Methods: Some research questions can only really be studied by sociologists getting out of their offices and interacting directly with the people they want

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Self-Report Methods: Interviews and Questionnaires

Research Methods: How do school students negotiate the pressures to perform well academically alongside the pressure to be popular and cool? Carolyn Jackson combined questionnaires

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Secularisation: The Decline of Religion?

Religion and Beliefs: With contributions from leading experts on the study of religion, this film gives students a new take on secularisation theory. While secularisation

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New Religions, Alternative Spiritualities

Religion and Beliefs: Sometimes practised far away from the world and sometimes in the full glare of hostile media, there are thousands of new religions.

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Religion: what it is and what it does

Religion and Beliefs: Ask a hundred people what they think religion is and you’ll probably get a hundred different answers. However, to study religion we

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