Health

Population statistics

I’ve seen a number of interesting stories and programmes exploring ideas relating to population levels.  The most recent was this morning on the BBC, asking if the number of people alive today (about 7 billion) outnumbers the number of people that have ever lived on earth.  Most of these debates centre on the fear that at some point there will be too many people for the world to handle.

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Media and Image

This is a fantastic commentary of the images of women portrayed by the media, commenting on how they project an impossibly flawless ideal.  Jean Kilbourne argues, not just that this image leads to increasing eating disorders and mental health issues among teenage girls, but that the objectification of women’s bodies contributes to a growth in violence against women.

Watch the video and see if you agree.

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Health - animated lecture

Great animated video about research into the benefits of exercise.  Watch it here.

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Contraception

Useful article about the impact of the introduction of the contraceptive pill.

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Sociology Categories

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Tags: education, mass media, gender, health, families, religion, crime & deviance, topic themes, social inequality, individual & society, protest & social movements, power, studying society, social policy & welfare, youth & culture, teaching sociology, popular culture
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