Hello! My name is Russell Haggar and I have been teaching both Sociology and Government and Politics at Advanced and GCSE levels mainly at the City of Norwich School for approximately 30 years. I live in the Earlham district of the City of Norwich: hence the name of the site.
My long term objective is to provide a fairly comprehensive set of materials for several of the modules currently offered in AS and A2 Sociology specifications. In the course of 2009-10 I shall add more documents to the Introducing Sociology Module, the Sociology of Education Module, the Families and Households Module, the Power and Politics Module and the Differentiation and Stratification Module. Other Modules will be introduced in 2010-2011.
I hope that these resources may be useful for students following Access to Higher Education Courses and for Scottish students following Scottish Intermediate and Higher Courses and also that some of the more detailed documents might possibly be helpful for beginning undergraduates.
Please Email if you have comments on the materials.
Visit The Introductory Advice Page
Updates
PowerPoint Presentation: Social Influences on Voting and Non-Voting: Added to Power and Politics Module Title Page [29/01/10]
PowerPoint Presentation: Models of Voting Behaviour : Added to Power and Politics Module Title Page [29/01/10]
Link: An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK. Added to Links Page and to Differentiation and Stratification Module Page [29/01/10]
Link: Guardian Interactive Graphic on above report: Added to Links Page and to Differentiation and Stratification Module Page [29/01/10]
Teaching Notes: Private Education [with an assignment]. Added to Sociology of Education Module Title Page [10/01/10]
Links: Two PowerPoints on the Nature of Sociology from an external site. Added to Links Page and to Introducing Sociology Module Title page [10/01/10]
Link: A searchable BBC site of short video clips on issues such as racism, poverty, democracy etc. Added to Links Page [10/01/10]
Link: Alex Thirkill's Site at Rydens School. Added to Links Page [31/12/09]
Alex Thirkill's PowerPoint on New Right Thinking and Education Policy. Added to Sociology of Education Module Title Page [31/12/09]
Links: Guardian and BBC presentations of DCFS 2009 data on GCSE Performance by Ethnicity, Gender and FSM Eligibility. Added to Links Page. [27/12/09]
PowerPoint Presentation: Tripartite and Comprehensive Secondary Education. Added to Sociology of Education Module Title Page. [27/12/09]
Teaching Notes: Conservatism, Thatcherism, the New Right and Education Policy 1979-1997. Added to Sociology of Education Module Title Page . [27/12/09]
Essay: Poverty and Educational Achievement. Added to Sociology of Education Module Title Page. [2/12/09]
Teaching Notes [Essay] Is the Family in Crisis? Added to Families and Households Module Title Page .[17/11/09]
Teaching Notes: Feminism and the Family: An Introduction. Added to Families and Households Module Title Page. [13/11/09]
Links: You Tube video clip links added to Voting Behaviour documents. [12/11/09]
Teaching Notes : "Race, Ethnicity and Educational Achievement. Added to Sociology of Education Module Title Page. [5/11/09]
Voting Behaviour in the UK: The General Elections of 1997, 2001 and 2005: Some Comparisons. Added to Power and Politics Module Title Page [21/10/09]
Voting Behaviour in the UK : Part B: From the 1970s to 1997. Added to Power and Politics Module Title Page . [10/10/09]
Link to Cabinet Office Strategy Unit Report : Families in Britain [Dec 08] .Added to Families and Households Module Page. [19/09/09]
The New Right, Families and Households [including Assignment]. Added to Families and Households Module Page. [18/09/09]
PowerPoint Presentation: Functions of Formal Education Systems. Added to the Sociology of Education Module Title Page. [7/09/09]
Functionalism and the Family: Marxism and the Family; Assignment on Marxism and the Family. Added to Families and Households Module Page. [28/08/09]
PowerPoint Presentation : Gender Differences in Educational Achievement. Added to the Sociology of Education Module Title Page. [15/08/09]
Link to Open University OpenLearn Course on Families and Households. Added to Sociology of Families and Households Module Title Page. [13/08/09]
Gender Differences in Educational Achievement: Some Explanations. Added to the Sociology of Education Module Title Page. [11/08/09]
Marxist Theory and Capitalist Class Structures. Added to Differentiation and Stratification Module Page. [3/08/09]
Data on Gender Differences in Educational Achievement. Added to the Sociology of Education Module Page . [18/7/09]
The Module Title Page now contains a link to an Introducing Sociology page on which appears a new document entitled...."Introducing Sociology". [11/7/09]
The Module Title Page now contains a link to a Power and Politics Module page on which appear two new documents on Voting behaviour. [5/7/09]
The Module Title Page now contains a link to a Differentiation and Stratification Module Page on which appears a new document entitled Social Class, Wealth, Income: An Introduction.[20/6/09]