April 18th I have
added links above
to the
Video Section of the RSA
site which has exceptional items related to
Sociology, Politics, Economics, Philosophy and more and to
Sociology Section of the
S-Cool site
which is a mine of useful information for AS and A2 Sociology students.
April 8th
Click here for
Press and Television coverage of the life and times of Margaret Thatcher
[R.I.P.] . This link has been added to my UK Politics Links Page.
March 13th
Click here a link to IPSOS MORI information on
2010-2012 trends in relationships between gender, age, class, region and
voting behaviour. This link has been added to my document on Voting
Behaviour in the UK.
February 14th
Click here for some links on Collective
Cabinet Responsibility and Coalition Government which have been added to my
document on Individual Ministerial Responsibility and Collective Cabinet
Responsibility
January 30th
Click here for links to coverage of MPs'
vote to delay the introduction of Constituency Boundary changes until 2018.
These links have been added to my regularly updated UK Politics Links Page
January 10th
Click here for the LSE British Politics and Policy Blog and
here for the Sociological
Imagination Blog which is also run from the LSE. I have now included each of
these in my lists of favourite sites. See above!
Recent
Updates 2012
December 21st
Click here
for a detailed Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report entitled "Are cultures of
worklessness passed down the generations?". This link has been added
also to the A2 Sociology Differentiation and Stratification Module Title
Page and the report provides recent information which is very useful in
relation to the consideration of "The Underclass Debate".
December 19th.
Click here for my now updated document on
Individual Ministerial and Collective Cabinet Responsibility which now
includes Channel 4 coverage , including a very informative video, of further
developments relating to the resignation of Andrew Mitchell
December 8th.
Click here for the webpage of
BBC Radio 4's "The State of Welfare" containing a long radio programme and
several related articles which are useful for the study of Ideologies and
Ideologies In Action. This link has been added to the A2 Government and
Politics Political Ideologies Title Page.
November 20th
Click here for a Radio 4 documentary
presented by Steve Richards and entitled "What does Ed Miliband really
think? This link has been added to the A2 Government and Politics Political
Ideologies Title Page
November 18th
Click here for Opinium poll data indicating that 56% of Britons favour
withdrawal from the EU and
here for an Observer editorial in support of continued EU membership and
here and
here for informative Observer articles. These links have been added also
to the UK Politics Link Page
November 8th
Click here for links to BBC and
Guardian coverage of USA Presidential and Congressional Elections 2008 and
2012. Although I do not generally cover American Government and Politics
these important links have been added to the UK Politics Links Page
October 23rd
Click here for a link to Peter
Kellner's YouGov article entitled "Labour's Lost Votes". This link has been
added to my document on the UK General Election of May 6th 2010
October 21st
Click here for links to reports from
the BBC , the Guardian and the Observer on the resignation of Chief Whip
Andrew Mitchell. These links have been added to my document on Individual
Ministerial Responsibility and Collective Cabinet Responsibility
October 3rd
Click here for links to Guardian
articles on Benjamin Disraeli, Ed Miliband and One Nation Politics. These
links have been added to the A2 Political Ideologies Title Page
October 1st
Click here for a new document entitled "Introducing Families and Households"
which has been added to the AS Sociology Families and Households Title Page
September 10th
Click here for links to new information
on Ethnicity, Religion and Voting Behaviour which have been added to my
document on Voting Behaviour in Great Britain.
September 8th
Click here for my document on
Political Parties which now contains new links to the 2012 Democratic Audit
Report and to Policy Review TV providing detailed information on Party
Functions and Organisation.
September 5th
Click here for my document on the Cabinet which
now contains several links to information on the September 2012 Reshuffle
and here
for a Guardian
editorial on the ideological implications of the Reshuffle. This latter link
has been added to my document on
David
Cameron and Conservative Ideology.
August 30th
Click here
for a very useful YouGov article by Peter Kellner on the current
unpopularity of the Liberal Democrats. This link has also been added to
Aspects of British Politics [the updated UK
Politics Links Page]
August 25th
I have added information on Alienation [also illustrated via a You Tube clip
from Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times] to my document entitled
Marx, Class and
Capitalism which appears on the A2 Sociology Differentiation and
Stratification Title Page.
July 28th
Click here for a review by
Professor J. Gehrke of Professor P. Dorey's British Conservatism : The
Politics and Philosophy of Inequality. This very useful review of this
excellent book has been added to the A2 Political Ideologies Title Page
July 7th
Click here for How Democratic is the UK? The 2012 Audit. This report
from Democratic Audit provides detailed indispensable information on all
aspects of the current UK political system. Another link to this report has
been added to the AS Government and Politics Title Page
July 5th.
Click here for my now revised Introduction
to Social Class, Wealth and Income which now includes two neat Office of
National Statistics Podcasts on the Distribution of Household Income in the
UK. This document appears on the A2 Sociology Differentiation and
Stratification Title Page.
June 22nd
Click here for several links to
coverage of Michael Gove's proposal to abolish GCSE Examinations. These
links have been added to my document on Conservative-Lib Dem Education
Policies links.
June 18th
Click
here for a series of You Tube Mini-Lectures by Pete Woodcock on Plato,
Hobbes, Locke , Rousseau, Burke, Marx and others. This link has been added
also to the A2 Political Ideologies Title Page
June 18th
Click here for a link to an
Audio Seminar on the Ideology and Policies of the Conservative-Liberal
Democrat Coalition by Dr. Matt Beech. This link has been added to the
David Cameron Resources Page
June 16th
Click here for links to items on the Cabinet
Manual and on the operation of Coalition Government. These links have been
added to the AS Government and Politics Title Page
June 11th
Click here for a link to Michael
Cockerell's three part documentary for the BBC on Tony Blair . This link has
been added to the AS Government and Politics Title Page. [ Via You Tube]
June 11th
Click here for a link to BBC Radio 4
Profiles Series containing interviews with several leading politicians and
officials. This link has been added to the As Government and Politics Title
Page
April 12th
Click here for links to three PowerPoints and a You Tube video on Pressure
Groups by Dr. Justin Greaves of Warwick University. These links have been
added to my document on Pressure Groups.
April 4th:
Click here for a link to a significant paper by Professor Becky Francis
entitled "[UN]SATISFACTORY? : Enhancing life chances by improving
"satisfactory" schools. " [December 2011 for the RSA]. This link has been
added to my documents on Poverty and Educational Achievement and Working
Class Subculture and Educational Achievement. which also contain a very
brief summary of some of Professor Francis' findings.
March 25th:
Click here for a link to Guardian
information on political lobbying including access to David Cameron. This
link has been added to my document on Pressure Groups.
March 24th:
Click here for a page of links
containing articles , audio and video materials on the Ideology of the
Conservative Party under David Cameron. This page has been added to the
Conservatism Section of the A2
Government and Politics Political Ideologies Page
March 12th:
Click here for a link to BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme on "Do Schools
Make a Difference?" which has been added to my document on Education Policy
and Pupil Achievement.
March 12th :
Click
here for links to two items on contemporary Conservative scepticism which
have been added to the Conservatism Section of the A2 Government and
Politics Political Ideologies Page
March 10th:
Click here for a link to BBC Radio
4's 2010 Analysis programme on Gender and Voting Behaviour which has been
added to my document on the UK General Election of May 6th 2010.
February 17th:
Click here for links to three
significant items on the future of Social Democracy and the Labour Party
which have been added to the Socialism Section of the A2 Government and
Politics Political Ideologies Title Page
February 10th:
Click here for my document on Ethnicity and
Educational Achievement and
here and
here for my documents on Gender and Educational
Achievement and
here for
my PowerPoint on Gender and Educational Achievement and
here for my document on
Poverty and Educational Achievement all of which have been updated to include links to DfE
2010/2011 revised data on GCSE Attainment and Pupil Characteristics
February 7th:
Click here for the Policy
Network Website which contains, among other things, excellent
information on New Labour and After . Another link to this site has been
added to the Socialism Section of the A2 Government and Politics
Political Ideologies Title Page
February 5th:
Click here for my document on Individual
Ministerial Responsibility and Collective Cabinet Responsibility which has
been updated to include information and links on the resignation of Mr.
Chris Huhne .This document appears on the AS Government and Politics Title
Page.
January 29th:
Click here
for a document entitled The UK General Election of May 6th 2010 which has
been added to the A2 Sociology: Power and Politics Module Title Page and to
the AS Government and Politics Title Page
January 10th:
Click here for a
three
part Radio 4 Series presented by Steve Richards on David Cameron's Big Idea
which has been added to the Conservatism Section of the A2 Political
Ideologies Title Page
December 17th: A2 Political Ideologies: click for
The Age of Dictatorship : Europe 1918-1989
[ Gresham's College/Past European
History Lectures] . Additional
links to these lectures have been added to
the Fascism and Marxism sections of the A2 Political
Ideologies Title Page.
September 10th: A2 Sociology: Differentiation and
Stratification:
click here for
Radio 4 series by Polly Toynbee entitled "The Class Ceiling".
Another link
to this series has
been added also to the AS/A2 Sociology of Education title page .
September 4th: AS Government and Politics:
click here
for
Channel 4 documentary by Andrew Rawnsley on the Blair
Premiership and Radio 4 series by Steve Richards on the Brown
Premiership
August 20th : AS/A2 Sociology of Education:
click here
for a Document entitled The Marxist Perspective on the
Functions of Formal Education Systems
August 3rd : A link to a very nice PowerPoint on Socialism and
Communism has been added to A2 Political Ideologies Title Page
August 2nd : An updated version of my document entitled Social
Democracy, New Labour and Income Inequality has been added to
the A2 Sociology Stratification and Differentiation Module Title
Page
July 18th: A link to the very useful Liberal Democrat History
Group Website has been added to the A2 Political Ideologies
Title Page.
July 18th: Links to archived programmes from Professor Laurie
Taylor's Radio Four Series entitled "Thinking Allowed" have
been added to the Sociology Module Title Page and to the
A2 Political Ideologies Title Page .
Recent Updates 2010-2011
May11th: Links to BBC coverage of The Coalition have been added
to the AS Government and Politics Title Page and to the A2
Political Ideologies Title Page
May
10th: A link to Andrew Rawnsley's Programme for
Dispatches: A Year inside Number 10 has been added to the A2
Political Ideologies Title Page. Useful on current ideological
and policy differences within the Coalition.
April 11th; Links to the Guardian Series on Religion and
Philosophy entitled "How to Believe" and to the articles on
Marxism from this series have been added to the A2 Political
Ideologies Title Page
March 31st: A link to Jesse Norman's video Lecture on "The Big
Society" at the RSA has been added to the A2 Political
Ideologies Title Page
March 31st: A link to Professor Steven Smith's Yale University
video lectures on Political Philosophy has been added to the A2
Political Ideologies Title Page
March 29th: A link to a very useful article entitled "The
Ideology of New Conservatism" by Kevin Hickson has been added to
the A2 Political Ideologies Title Page
March 7th: A link to a Channel Four [4OD] documentary
based upon Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine [highly critical of
all aspects of Neo-Liberalism] has been added to the A2
Political Ideologies Title Page
March 5th: Links to two recent editions of Radio Four's
"Analysis" on "The Big Society" have been added to the A2
Political Ideologies Title Page
Feb
19th: A Document [which also includes a short summary] on the Functionalist Theory of Social
Stratification and a related Assignment have been added to the
Differentiation and Stratification Module Title Page.
Feb
12th: A link to " The Great British Class Survey" UK has been
added to the Differentiation and Stratification Module Title
Page. You can participate!
Feb
10th : A link to the detailed and very useful paper "The Social
Class Gap in Educational Achievement: A Review of the
Literature" [Emma Perry and Becky Francis Dec: 2010] has been
added to the Education and Training Module Title Page
Feb
5th : Michael Sandel's Harvard University Video Lectures
on Justice raise several issues relevant to the study of
Political Ideologies. A link has been added to the A2 Political
Ideologies Title Page
Jan
26th: Document on Education and the Economy has been updated
Jan
26th: Document on Voting Behaviour in the UK has been amended to
include additional information on Ethnicity and Voting Behaviour
in the 2005 General Election.
2010
Nov
13th: Social Democracy, New Labour and Income Inequality added
to A2 Sociology Differentiation and Stratification Module Title
Page
Nov
12th: Assignment on Functionalist, Marxist and Feminist
perspectives on Families and Households added to Families and
Households Module Title Page
November 9th: Link to Revision World: AS and A2 Sociology
Revision added to Sociology Links Page
October 30th :
New Version of Functions of Political Parties added to AS Government and
Politics Title Page and to A2 Sociology Power and Politics Module Title Page
October 1st:
Revised version of Document Two on Voting Behaviour added to A2 Sociology Power
and Politics Module Title Page
September 20th
External Links on the Conservative -Liberal Democrat Coalition added to AS
Government and Politics Title Page
September 14th: New
version of Pressure Groups added to AS Government and Politics Title Page
September 5th Link
to Prof. Frank W. Elwell's very detailed Sociological Theory site at Rogers
State University. Added to Links Page
August 29th: Voting
Behaviour in the UK has been revised and updated.
August 29th: All
existing documents on Gender and Educational Achievement have been revised to
include 2010 GCSE and GCE Examination Results Data.
August 29th :
Gender and Subject Choice: Explanations. Added to Sociology of Education Title
Page
August 29th: Gender
and Hidden Curriculum. Added to Sociology of Education Module Title Page
August 29th:
Exercise on Functionalism, Marxism, Socialisation and Education. Added to
Sociology of Education Module Title Page
August 29th Link
to Alice Sullivan article on Cultural Capital and Education. Added to Sociology
of Education Module Title Page
August 18th.
Marxism : An Introduction. Added to Introducing Sociology Title Page
August 18th Link to
Learning and Teaching Scotland Tutor Notes and Student Exercises for Scottish
Intermediate and Higher Sociology. Added to Sociology Links Page.
August 18th Link to
Learning and Teaching Scotland Tutor Notes and Student Exercises for Scottish
Intermediate and Higher Politics. Added to AS Government and Politics Title
Page.
August 11th. Sex,
Gender and Feminist Analysis [Essay]. Added to Introducing Sociology Title Page
August 10th. Link
to Parliamentary Brief on Line added to A2 Government and Politics Title Page.
[Contains useful articles on Cameron's Conservatives.]
August 9th. New,
extended version of Thatcherism and the New Right added to A2 Government and
Politics Title Page.
July 13th.
Conservative Governments and Economic Inequality 1979-97. Added to
Differentiation and Stratification Module Title Page
July 13th.
Analysing Income inequality : A Technical Appendix. Added to Differentiation and
Stratification Module Title Page
July 13th. Poverty
and Inequality : a link to a PPT from the Institute of Fiscal Studies. Added to
Differentiation and Stratification Module Title Page
July 7th
Introducing the State, Power, Authority and Coercion; Revised. Added to
Sociology: Power and Politics Module Title Page and to AS Government and
Politics Page
July 2nd
Functionalism, Marxism, Family and Socialisation: Summary Information with an
Exercise: Added to the Families and Households Title page
June
2010. A link to IPSOS MORI's absolutely brilliant overage of the 2010 General
Election has been added to the Power and Politics Module Title Page
