Explanations for differential educational achievement across different class, age, gender and ethnic categories are many, varied and complex, so it’s unlikely any single explanation taken
“Amstradification” refers to the idea that when offering someone a choice between two things that can be considered to be broadly similar, you make your
Experiments with “Zero tolerance policing” have taken place in both Britain and America, but the latter has taken this approach (usually underpinned in social policy
This short article (based on research by Lavy and Sandm, 2015) is a simple introduction to some of the ways gender stereotypes are perpetuated in early-years
A research snippet from the Sutton Trust (2014) that suggests inequalities in extra-curricular tuition and activities can have an impact on differential educational achievement.
The Thomas Theorem, created by W.I.Thomas and his wife Dorothy (The Child in America, 1928), is a simple and interesting way to introduce students to
The fact students come to Sociology with a certain level of prior knowledge about the areas they’re studying – from families through education to crime
The Centre for Social Investigation – not to be confused with the long-running TV series – was established at Nuffield College in 2014 as an
As with their Sociology counterpart, Lumen Learning also supply a range of Psychology PowerPoint Presentations to support their (free) online Psychology course and complement the
If you’re interested in free textbooks – of either the Sociology or Psychology variety – you may well have come across the Openstax Introduction to
