Category: Blog
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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 Families and Households section of the #2022challenge is up now. Videos will be a bit longer as I’m away from home…
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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 mark item question on the decline of marriage. I have to admit to deliberately picking two more difficult hooks in that question – individualism and secularisation…
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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 identity are really interesting and very relevant to contemporary society…but finding adequate resources for students to learn…
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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 the 2022 Challenge page. And like buses, here are Day 14 and Day 15’s responses as well. The fact that…
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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 some hints, which are in the gallery below. In answering the questions, I tried to use as much information as I could from…
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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 quite a fascinating module to have read about and studied. As we focus largely on the non-Advanced Information…
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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 considerations of experiments should be quite straightforward, identifying an ethical issue, explaining why it was an issue and using an…
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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 to go! Throughout the day I have been posting some little hints on how to answer todays questions.…
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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 friends. Sometimes unforeseen events may throw you off track somewhat, but it’s worth realising that if that does happen then it’s important to get…
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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 question is relatively straightforward, students need to be careful to mention practical limitations rather that ethical or theoretical ones. A handy way to revise this is through…