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- This blog orginally aimed to provide updates on sociological research relevant to A level (16-19) sociology students. However, it’s morphing into a forum for expressing my leftist views on a range of contemporary events.
- Even if this is the case, many entries still covers issues, concepts and theories relevant to A level sociology. Also, even with the political content, a lot of posts are still ‘pure updates’ on contemporary research … (about 1/2).
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About 2/2: … this blog was only started in July 2010 – so if you are here for A level material then the Global Development and Education sources are a bit thin as we haven’t taught these yet this academic year – they will be populated with lots of juicy material from January 2011.
The topic focus of the blog stems from the subjects I teach which are:
- The sociology of the family
- The sociology of education
- crime and deviance,
- global development and
- Sociological theory and
- research methods.
My particular interests from the above include the following:
- The consequences of neo-liberalism – including anti-capitalist critiques of this particular ideolgical strain of late Capitalism
- Strenghts/ Limitations of evidence and arguements for the continued relevance of a class based analysis of society – obviously related to the above
- Strengths/ Limitations of Evidence and arguements for the continued relevance of Feminism in contemporary society
A considerable amount of material will come from journalistic and activist sources – I personally believe that sociological research goes way beyond academics in unversities – but you should always, always, check the validity of the source material I link to -Comments welcome. Peace, Karl.
Link: Global Sociology Blog.