The Sociology Guy

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#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 catch up when you need to. Anyway, the complete

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#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, I put out some material which you can find on

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#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 identity. Through the day I sent out

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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 is not a module I have taught very often, but it is

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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 looked at two questions that differed in difficulty. First, ethical

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#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 double figures of questions to complete. At present, there are still 102

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#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 demands, such as work, family and

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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. While the former

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#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 and methods’ with the trend

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#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 I hope others are finding it useful. Ordinarily there

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#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 the specification because many students fall into

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Day 2 #2022challenge Social Class and Education

Answers to Day 2 of the #2022challenge

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#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 students to outline 2 ways in which schools promote

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#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 for the last few days. There are only 4 days

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#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 or Methods this is the eighth theory methods question I have

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#2022Challenge Day 16 Families and Households

Still playing catch-up somewhat, but onto the right day at least. Today’s #2022Challenge looked at changes to the family structure and how they influence children’s experiences and a 10

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#2022Challenge Day 15…Culture and Identity

Still playing catch up after a few days not on task, but today is the final day in the Culture and Identity week of the challenge – which is sort of bittersweet. The topic areas for culture and