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
