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      Thinking sociologically about the General Election
    
      Dr Jennifer Hardes Dvorak explores how you can use the upcoming General Election to enhance your students’ knowledge in some core areas of the sociology curriculum around questions of social class, gender and ethnicity, and provide an...
    
        8 min
      
        25/06/2024
      
      The Sociological Imagination: Promise or Problem?
    
      Dr Sarah Cant explores why there has never been a more important time to study sociology and how you can integrate contemporary studies into your A level teaching.
    
        4 min
      
        19/09/2023
      
      Running a research methods project with your A-level Sociology students
    
      Research methods is not the most glamorous or popular topic within the A-level Sociology specification, and sociology teachers strive to make it engaging for their students. Amongst the other ‘more exciting’ topics, students often struggle to see how research methods...
    
        8 min
      
        24/02/2021
      
      Four ways to approach the Black Lives Matter protests with your sociology students
    
      Teaching sociology is a collective action. It is important to recognise that we are equipping the next generation with critical skills and insights that can possibly lead to social change. We should not turn away from addressing controversial or sensitive...
    
        6 min
      
        23/11/2020
      
      Examining Covid-19 through a sociological gaze
    
      As a Sociology teacher living and working through the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been fascinated by the societal impact COVID-19 has had on our society. Pandemics in general have been a topic researched by sociologists: McCoy (2017) investigated the...
    
        5 min
      
        24/09/2020
      
      A-level Sociology revision: key terms to use synoptically across topics
    
      At this time of year many teachers will, hopefully, be approaching the end of teaching all the A-level content for Sociology and then be faced with the slightly daunting task of revisiting and revising all the material from the last...
    
        5 min
      
        05/04/2019
      
      Analysing monogamy and the rise of polyamory
    
      Louis Theroux’s BBC documentary on polyamory: ‘Altered states: Love without limits’ has got the general public and the sociological world talking.
    
        6 min
      
        14/11/2018
      
      12 influential and inspirational films for Sociology students
    
      It has never been easier to consume media and in particular TV series and documentaries, in a time of binge-watching though I am often asked by students for advice on actual films to watch rather than just series, in...
    
        6 min
      
        15/10/2018
      
      Getting discussions and debates flowing with new students
    
      If you are like me then following the well-earned summer break you return to teaching in September and feel like you have forgotten everything from how to explain an idea to how to write on a whiteboard and that comes...
    
        6 min
      
        30/07/2018
      
      Help your students prepare for the GCSE Citizenship exams
    
      With GCSE Citizenship exams around the corner, how can you best support your students? Keep them focused – even once on study leave – by talking them through this handy ‘PREPARE’ aide-memoire
    
        3 min
      
        16/04/2018
      
      Citizenship lesson plan inspiration: respecting the rights and freedoms of others
    
      As we all learnt the hard way as NQTs, the key to a smooth autumn term with new students is to enforce school rules. Display them, discuss them…deviate from them at our peril!
    
        3 min
      
        21/09/2017
      
      Moving Sociology outside of the classroom
    
      Sociology is a fascinating subject which enables learners to develop a real understating of how society works. Many students are captivated by some of the debates covered in Sociology A-level, and for the first time they can become immersed in...
    
        4 min
      
        26/06/2017