Learning Mats: A Generic Version
The Learning Maps we’ve previously posted have rightly proven popular, both because of their quality and because they meet a need for tools that help students to structure their work in a simple and effective way – one that has the added bonus of providing a tightly-organised and highly visual method of revision. Good as […]
Yet More Sociology Knowledge Organisers
The Learning Tables and Knowledge Organisers we’ve recently posted were all for the AQA Specification and while there’s a good deal of crossover between this Specification and OCR I thought it would be helpful to those following the latter if they had some KO’s to call their own. These Organisers, all produced by Lucy Cluley, […]
Crime and Deviance: Non-Sociological vs Labelling Approaches
I came across this “Approaches to Crime and Deviance” PowerPoint the other day while searching through an old hard drive (the metadata says I created it in 2003 and although that sounds about right in terms of the look-and-feel of the Presentation it may actually have been created a little later, not that this makes […]
Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 3
The third WJEC Criminology offering – again I’m thinking it’s by Janis Griffiths – focuses on Sociological theories of criminality and serves as a brief introduction to: • Marxism, • Functionalism, • Interactionism and • Realism. The main content here is basically a one-screen summary of key points so it’s probably best seen as a […]
Categorising SCP: Techniques and Examples
The first post in this short series outlined what Cornish and Clarke (2003) called 5 Situational Crime Prevention strategies and this PowerPoint Presentation develops this to include what they argued were “25 crime prevention techniques” associated with these strategies. In the presentation each technique is both briefly explained and illustrated. This material is presented as […]
Deviancy Amplification PowerPoint
Deviancy Amplification has become something of a classic example of an Interactionist approach to deviance, predominantly, but not exclusively, because of Jock Young’s seminal analysis (1971) of “The role of the police as amplifiers of deviance, negotiators of reality and translators of fantasy”. This is a little ironic given that Leslie Wilkins’ original formulation of […]
Interpretivism: Emergent (Exploratory) Research
Although the Hypothetico-deductive model describes an important way of doing research, by way of contrast (since not all sociologists believe the same things or do things in exactly the same way) we can look at an alternative “emergent (exploratory) research” model that can be closely associated with Interpretivist methodology. In general, this type of model […]
The Crime and Deviance Channel
The Channel is a collection of original resources – Text, PowerPoint, Audio and Video – designed to complement the teaching of crime and deviance. It’s been running since 2010 and we’ve recently decided to give it a complete redesign, partly because the old design was getting a bit long-in-the-tooth and partly because hardware and browser […]
The Functions of Crime
This PowerPoint file combines text, graphics, audio and video to outline four types of Functionalist theory on crime and deviance: Durkheimian, Strain (Merton), General Strain Subcultural. A self-selected, unrepresentative of anyone-but-themselves, sample of reviewers have described this resource as: “Brilliant”; “Utterly amazing” and “Too complicated to follow”. Is this, as Meatloaf so perceptively once asserted, […]