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11 May 2017
Your Health: Who's Responsibility Is It?
One of Donald Trump's key presidential pledges was to remove Obamacare, a system that helped provide health care to some of the poorest people in the USA. Trump asserted that Obamacare (otherwise...
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9 May 2017
Identity Crisis? How To Be a Man
According to some sociologists, some men are experiencing a crisis of identity where they are struggling with the professional and personal demands placed on them in society.
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4 May 2017
Marxism and Mario
What could be better than putting Marxism and Super Mario together? Or even better, having a Mario style animation of some of Marx’s ideas?
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2 May 2017
Issues for the Election: Crime Rates
Traditionally one of the biggest political issues during election campaigns is the discussion of crime rates. Governments are keen to highlight successes in the reduction of crime across the...
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13 Apr 2017
Top Tips for Revision: Part Two
In the previous post, there were some general tips for planning your revision for exams and how to deal with some of the anxiety associated with them. In this post, there will be some suggestions...
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11 Apr 2017
Top Tips for Revision: Part One
For many students preparing to take their A-Level Sociology exams (or any exams for that matter!) in a few months’ time, the prospect of revision may seem overwhelming. Government reforms in...
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6 Apr 2017
Using Trump to Help Explore Postmodernism
It is not just the New Right perspective that can help explain some of the reasons for Donald Trump’s rise to power, postmodernism can too.
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4 Apr 2017
Using Trump to Help Explore the New Right
The New Right is considered more of a political than a sociological perspective but its influence has been considerable in society, particularly in the USA and the UK since the 1950s.
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30 Mar 2017
The Effects of Brexit
With the effects of the EU referendum result still reverberating in the UK and globally, some Brits have decided to seek citizenship elsewhere to provide them with some protection once the UK...
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28 Mar 2017
Crime and Deviance: Victimisation of Criminals and the Criminal Justice System
Patterns of victimisation vary by gender, class and ethnicity but a recent murder case highlights the relationship between a female victim and a male perpetrator. Females are more likely to be...
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27 Mar 2017
Battling Discrimination as a Single Parent
Functionalists and the New Right believe that the nuclear family is the ideal family type in which to raise children. This is because the family has a vital role in society and, for functionalists...
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23 Mar 2017
Can Sociology Make Any Sense of Such a Senseless Tragedy?
Teachers may feel that the young people in their care would benefit from an opportunity to discuss this tragic event. The following notes are offered as a reminder of the many sociological theories...
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23 Mar 2017
Video Resource: Crash Course
Crash Course have been producing entertaining and free educational videos for a few years now but they have recently expanded their catalogue to include Sociology!
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21 Mar 2017
Want to Live Longer? Have Kids!
Research conducted by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has found that parenthood can help increase your life expectancy.
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16 Mar 2017
What's Truth Got To Do With It?
Following such events as the UK Brexit vote and the US presidential election, Oxford Dictionaries have identified the word of the year for 2016 as 'Post-Truth'. Although it’s not necessary a new...
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14 Mar 2017
School Funding Cuts Likely to Affect the Poorest Children
News of recent budget cuts by the Conservative party including to the education system has drawn criticism from teaching unions and charities.
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9 Mar 2017
Emma Watson and the HeForShe Campaign
One of the difficulties that students can often experience when studying sociological theory is making contemporary links; some theories can appear quite abstract and even outdated.
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8 Mar 2017
International Women's Day
It is International Women’s Day today with events planned around the world to raise awareness of gender inequality in all areas of society.
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7 Mar 2017
British Schools Explained
For some students learning some of the structures of the British education system can be confusing, there are a complex web of policies involved and it can seem as if things change from year to year.
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2 Mar 2017
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Divorce Hotel
It is estimated that over 40% of all marriages in England and Wales will end in divorce. This figure has risen with various legal changes in the UK over the course of the 20th century that have...
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