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…
Sounds of Society: 10 Songs That Turn Social Issues into Sonic Sociology
One of the staples of the Tutor2u Strong Foundations and Gradebooster tours is the music quiz that starts session 4, warming students up after lunch…
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The Sociology of Christmas: What Our Favourite Festive Films Reveal About Society
Christmas movies aren’t just cosy entertainment—they’re full of social messages about family, community, identity and inequality. When we look closely, these stories become snapshots of…
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Modern Primitives: Understanding Vale & Juno (1989)
Body modification; tattoos, piercings, scarification and ritual pain; feels completely normal to many people today. However, in the late 1980s these practices were still seen…
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Media Representations Magazine Project
Learning Goal To show your understanding of how different social groups are represented in the media by creating a magazine-style cover and layout that explores…
The Crisis of Masculinity and the Epidemic of Male Loneliness in the UK
Sociologists have increasingly argued that many men in the UK are experiencing both a crisis of masculinity and an epidemic of loneliness. These two ideas…
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How Social Media Has Changed Moral Panics in the 21st Century
When sociologists like Stanley Cohen first studied moral panics in the 1960s, the media world looked very different. Newspapers and TV controlled what counted as…
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Feminist Theories of Media Representation
Understanding How Women Are Represented in the Media and Why It Still Matters If you’ve ever scrolled through Instagram, watched Love Island, or seen an…
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How the Media Represents Age: From Childhood to Old Age
Media representations shape how we see different age groups and influence the stereotypes we hold about them. From the way children are portrayed as innocent…
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Media Representations of Age: Wayne et al (2008)
In both AQA and OCR A level Sociology, one key topic in the media unit is how age groups are represented. Sociologists argue that the…
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