Blog and updates
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7 Dec 2017
Tackling Social Mobility
Social mobility can be described as the movement of people between different social strata within society, for instance, if someone was to marry someone wealthier than themselves this could be seen...
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5 Dec 2017
BBC Stories
BBC Stories publish stories about current events and the videos that range in length from a few minutes to around 20 minutes.
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4 Dec 2017
Little Miss Engineer
A new female character is joining the Mr Men and Little Miss book series called Little Miss Engineer who has been created to be a ‘positive role model’ for girls, although I would also argue for...
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1 Dec 2017
State of the Nation: Social Mobility
A fascinating report on social mobility in the UK and particularly in which areas of the country people from disadvantaged backgrounds can progress and where they cannot, which reveals a "postcode...
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30 Nov 2017
Zuckerberg for President?
Some social commentators argue that with an increasingly complex and globalised world, traditional notions of roles and status have changed not just within the family and the workplace but also...
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29 Nov 2017
Matchmaking with a Chatbot
Finding love and romance has changed dramatically in the past ten years or so, where once, couples may have been ‘set up’ by a family member, friend or acquaintance, or met through work, technology...
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28 Nov 2017
Flat Earth Society
Earlier this month the Flat Earth International Conference took place in North Carolina, USA. The following video interviews some of the attendees and the reasons behind their views.
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27 Nov 2017
The Crisis of Masculinity: An interesting article in the Guardian
In various sociological topics - not least Families and Households and Culture and Identity - we talk about masculinity. The Guardian has an interesting article to help facilitate a discussion on...
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27 Nov 2017
'The Masculine Mystique'
The following article offers an interesting insight into what could be seen as the ‘baggage of being a bloke’. Traditional gender roles such as breadwinner and housewife it is widely held are now...
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24 Nov 2017
The Top 20 Sociology Degrees Wall Display (2019 update)
Here's a fantastic wall display to encourage students to apply to study Sociology at university. Everything you need to recreate it yourself is included in this post.
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23 Nov 2017
Crash Course: Social Change
The following video from Crash Course provides a concise overview of social change, an important area for discussion within all topics of sociology.
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22 Nov 2017
Conservative Politics in the USA
I had never heard of Steve Bannon before the 2016 US Presidential election, however his name is now largely synonymous with conservative politics and Donald Trump (with Bannon serving as the Chief...
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21 Nov 2017
Rohingya Refugees
It was widely celebrated around the world when Nobel Peace prize winner and human rights activist, Aung San Suu Kyi was elected the leader of Myanmar in 2015. ‘The Lady’ as she is sometimes known...
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20 Nov 2017
#SexualHarassment
In mid-October, Ronan Farrow published a powerful piece of investigative journalism about the movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein in The New Yorker. The piece consisted of how, over the course of...
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17 Nov 2017
Media Topic: Today's Front Pages
A good starter activity during some lessons in the Media topic is to look at the front pages of many of the daily newspapers in the UK. What messages are they putting across to the public? In whose...
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16 Nov 2017
The 'Extreme' Left
In recent months there have been a number of reports in the media of the rise of the far right. The terms 'white supremacists' and 'alt-right' may come to mind as well as the events in...
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15 Nov 2017
The Paradise Papers
It has been hard to miss in the international press recently an investigation into the use of 'tax havens' by the wealthy.
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14 Nov 2017
The Growth of Megacities
Megacities are defined as cities with more than ten million inhabitants. Inward migration to cities is usually coupled with people seeking a ‘better quality of life’ where they have greater access...
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13 Nov 2017
Social Class and Oxbridge
Recently released data has shown that four-fifths of students who attend either Oxford or Cambridge university end up in some of Britain’s highest positions in society, such as senior managers,...
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9 Nov 2017
Indian village run by girls
In an inspiring story, The Guardian has reported about the village of Thennamadevi in India where a proportion of the teenage girls have formed a ‘young girls’ club’ to help tackle village issues...
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