The next Collection in a series that includes Learning Mats, Revision Resources, Simulations and the ever-popular Introductory Sociology, brings together all the Flipbook posts dotted around the Blog I could find and puts them into one handy cut-out-and-keep post.
Don’t thank me.
Because I know that you won’t…
Research Methods
The first four to be given the Flipbook treatment are actual, physical, book chapters that I wrote back in the days when I was Quite Interested in writing textbooks.
Overt Participant Observation illustrated by Venkatesh’s “Gang Leader for a Day”
Theory
Systems Theory: It’s Functionalism, Jim. But not as you know it.
Modernity and Sociological Theory
Postmodernity and Sociological Theory
Globalisation: Economic, political and cultural dimensions.
Global Culture: 3 views on the nature and extent of changing global culture.
Global Culture – Video Version: As above except this version uses video examples rather than static pictures.
Risk Society: It’s modernity, Jim. But not as you knew it.
Education
Educational Achievement and Intelligence: The IQ debate in Education
Gender Identity and Achievement: How the “girls good / boys bad” model is mistaken…
Crime and Deviance
Theories of Crime and Deviance 1: Functionalist, Ecological, Critical.
Theories of Crime and Deviance 2: Interactionism, Deviancy Amplification, Postmodern Criminology, Constitutive criminology
Theories of Crime and Deviance 3:Concepts of power and control, new and traditional penology, Actuarial approaches, Administrative criminology, Left and Right Realism.
The Social Distribution of Crime: Class, age, gender, ethnicity and locality.
Routine Activities Theory: Crime as a Cause of Crime?
Routine Activities Theory: Crime as a Cause of Crime?: this version includes a short video clip outlining Routine Activities Theory
Market Reduction Approach: Outline of an innovative approach to crime reduction.
Strain Theory: Merton’s classic Strain Theory plus Agnew’s contemporary General Strain Theory
Crime and Harm: The Critique of Conventional Criminology
A Social Harm Approach to Crime
Women and Binge-Drinking: Includes 3-minute video exploring binge-drinking among young women.
Crime, Deviance and The Spirit Level: Four ways “less equal” societies differ from “more equal” societies in relation to crime.
Left Realism: Key Ideas and Criticisms
Left Realism: The 3-Cornered Approach and Square of Crime
Situational Action Theory: Outlining and explaining Wickstrom’s influential theory of crime.
Revision
Sociological Perspectives: The Revision Map / Graphic Organiser format may not be everybody’s cup of tea. Sip-it-and-see…
Mass Media: Ownership and Control: Revision Map / Graphic Organiser
Mass Media: Media and Ideology: Marxism (Instrumental and Hegemonic) and Pluralism.
Research Methods overview: Primary, secondary, quantitative and qualitative data.
Primary Research Methods: Questionnaires, Interviews, Experiments, Observation, Visual methods.
Secondary Research Methods: Content analysis, Documents, Statistics.
Research Methodology: Positivism and Interpretivism.
Practical, Ethical and Theoretical Research Considerations
The Research Process: Hypothetico-deductive model / Types of Sampling.
Mass Media
Media Effects: Direct and indirect media effects models.
Defining and Researching Mass Media: Longer introduction to the Mass Media, plus research methods Content Analysis and Semiology. There’s also a pdf version if you want it.
The Ownership and Control Debate: A pdf version is also available.
The Selection and Presentation of News: There’s also a pdf version if you’d prefer it.
Representations of Social Groups: Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity.
Postmodernism and New Media: Repositioning “audience effects”
Simulacra and Hyperreality: Lesson outline / plan with video examples.
Mass Media Complete: Defining and Researching Mass Media; Ownership and Control Debate; Selection and Presentation of News; Media Representations; Media Effects.
Sociology Shortcuts: Free Online Magazine
Issue 1: Risk Society: Features around 5 minutes of embedded video of Prof. Ulrich Beck and Prof. Brian Wynne
Issue 2: The Mass Media: : Issue 2 of Sociology Shortcuts is totally devoted to The Media, both old and new. There’s also a few articles on researching the media thrown-in for good measure, plus some short video segments. Because what’s an online magazine without video?
Issue 3: Introduction to Sociology: The 3rd issue of Sociology Shortcuts Magazine is given-over to various aspects of Introductory Sociology. There are also a few bits-and-pieces of video, for no other reason than I can.
Issue 4: Testing the Marshmallow Test: Although it’s basically a psychological test it has implications for deferred and immediate gratification.
Issue 5: Situational Action Theory: Outlining and explaining Wickstrom’s influential theory of crime.
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