#2022Challenge Days 17-20
So... still playing catch up this week, which demonstrates the importance of having a) a clear schedule to revise and b) rest days planned to…
#2022Challenge Days 13 and 14
Apologies for not updating this sooner (if you noticed that is...) but here are Day 13's responses to a couple of tricky questions. As always,…
#2022Challenge Day 12 Culture and Identity
Culture and Identity is today's theme, focusing mainly on the impacts of globalisation and social class identity as well as the impacts of consumption on…
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#2022Challenge Culture and Identity Day 11
After a nice relaxing weekend, it's back to the grindstone with 2 - 10 mark questions on Culture and Identity. I have to admit, this…
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#2022Challenge Day 10 Theory and Methods
Then end of week 2 of the #2022 Challenge is upon us as I put up the final response to this week's challenges. Today we…
#2022Challenge Day 9
Day 9 of the challenge is complete and just one more day to go to the weekend. After this week, we'll nearly be down to…
#2022Challenge Day 8 – Theory and Methods
Nearly didn't manage to get today's challenge done, but here it is. Sometimes it is tough to maintain daily revision, particularly when faced with other…
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#2022Challenge Day 7 Theory and Methods
Today's questions were again focused on theory and methods - this time looking at practical limitations of observations and reasons sociology cannot be value free.…
#2022 Challenge Day 6 Theory and Methods
Bit of a tougher question today - looking at Theory and Methods. The first question on primary research methods... I combined the 'choice of topic…
#2022Challenge Day 5 Education
The end of the first week and 15 out of 125 questions answered. I've had some really nice feedback from people doing the challenge, so…
#2022Challenge Day 4 Ethnicity and Education
So today's responses are up a little later than usual, but still completed. Looking at ethnic differences in education is quite a tough area of…
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Day 2 #2022challenge Social Class and Education
Answers to Day 2 of the #2022challenge
#2022 Challenge Day 1
Today marks the first day of the challenge and I set three questions this morning for students to answer (as above). The first question asked…
#40 Day Challenge Days 31-34
Due to a few issues out of my control (internet connection issues - thank you Sky!) been unable to upload responses/questions for 4) day challenge…
#40DayChallenge Day 16 – Practical limitations of Self Completition Questionnaires
Today's 40 Day challenge is on research methods. Given that 2 of the 8 ten mark questions across the 3 papers are on either Theory…
Secondary Sort
Helping Students Make Sense of Qualitative Secondary Sources When teaching research methods, qualitative secondary sources can sometimes feel harder for students to get hold of…
Participant Observation Fishbowl
A Simple Classroom Activity That Makes Observation Methods Click One of the challenges when teaching observation methods is that students often understand the definitions before…
Reliability Test: Using Video to Teach Reliability in Non-Participant Observation
Teaching research methods can sometimes feel abstract for students. Terms like reliability, observer agreement and structured observation are easy enough to define, but much harder…
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Homework Activity: Sampling a Population
Sampling in Practice: A Homework Activity That Helps Students Move Beyond Definitions Sampling is one of those areas in sociology where students can often learn…
Bringing Theoretical Perspectives to Life in the Sociology Classroom
One of the biggest challenges when teaching theory and methods is helping students see that research methods are not simply technical tools sitting in a…
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What Is the Researcher Doing?
Activity for Introducing Participant Observation One of the most effective ways to teach participant observation is to move students quickly from definition to application. Rather…
The Ethnographer’s Toolkit
Ethnographic research is one of the most vivid and engaging methods to teach in sociology. Students are often drawn to it because it feels closer…
Positivism at Home
A Simple Homework Extension Activity for A Level Sociology Homework does not always need to be long, complicated or heavily research-based to be useful. Sometimes…
Why Mixed Methods Matter
A Sociology Classroom Activity on Investigating Inequality Teachers of sociology are often trying to do two things at once: help students engage with contemporary social…
Activity: Does the IV Cause the DV?
This activity helps students practise the difference between correlation and cause and effect by looking at sociological hypotheses and deciding whether the independent variable (IV)…
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