Lesson Plans: Family | Class | Religion
Whatever your teaching situation or level of experience, Other People’s Lesson Plans can sometimes be a bit of a god-send – particularly when they come from the pen of practising teachers: whether you’re looking for a different way to teach a familiar topic, a set of basic ideas you can adapt to your own working […]
Changing Families, Changing Food
Jackson, Nicolson, James and Smith’s research (2009) looked at the various ways historical changes in family life and structure (specifically pregnancy and motherhood; childhood and family; family and community) were refracted through the lens of changing patterns of food preparation and consumption. Aside from the Final Report, there are a couple of freebies that might […]
SCTV Weekly Round-Up
A little late, but worth the wait. Probably. Our weekly round-up of the sites and stories that are hot. Or not.
Weekly Round-Up
This week’s round-up of all the sites, scenes and sounds that piqued our interest…
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 and it doesn’t look good: “I Teach At A For-Profit College: 5 Ridiculous Realities” Crime Manchester’s Heroin Haters – Vigilante violence? Revealed: London’s new violent crime hotspots Chief Constable confirms […]
Family PowerPoints
As the frequent reader of this blog (“Hi”) well-knows, I collect a lot of stuff on my travels around the web and I store it safely away for times such as this – when I’ve got a blog post to write and nothing to write it about (or at least nothing that takes the minimum […]
An Alternative to the Conventional Nuclear Family
Finding good, contemporary, examples of alternatives to the “conventional nuclear family” is never that easy so I thought I’d pass-on this example from Sociology teacher Richard Driscoll. It’s a piece of primary / secondary research carried-out by one of his students, Hecate Li, on the Mosuo Tribe in China. The short, beautifully-produced and clearly presented report touches […]
New Recipe Card (CIE AS Sociology)
In a previous post we looked at the general ideas / principles underpinning the concept of Recipe Cards using examples drawn from the AQA Examining Board. To balance things up a little this Recipe Card, based on the AS Family section of the CIE International A-level Sociology syllabus, is designed to help students answer the […]
Social capital: Internships
The concept of social capital refers to the “networks of influence” people are able to create and key into through the course of their lives and an interesting example linked to family, education and work is the contemporary practice of internship. This frequently involves the ability to work for a potential employer for free in […]
Family Life: Sons and Daughters
This American research by Angelina Grigoryeva has a number of interesting applications in terms of family sociology. These include: gender roles within the family the feminisation of domestic labour women’s triple shift (paid labour; domestic labour; emotional labour) pivot / sandwich generation females