GENERAL WIDER READING/WATCHING/LISTENING Below is a list of different areas that you might want to explore over the next few weeks which are relevant to sociology. This is your chance to explore wider issues in Sociology. Enjoy! Books There are many fiction and non-fiction books which cover sociological issues. These are a few examples: Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working The Beauty Myth- Naomi Woolf Class - Owen Jones Subculture: The Meaning of Style- Hebdige Natives - Akala Goth Identity, Style and Subculture- No Label - Naomi Klein Hodkinson The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell Hard Work -Polly Toynbee The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell Everyone - Kate Pickett and Richard McDonaldisation - Ritzer Wilkinson McMafia - Misha Glenny Club Cultures: Music, Media and Black like me- John Howard Griffin – Subcultural Capital - Sarah Thornton Gang leader for a day -Sudhir Venkatesh Watching the English: Kate Fox To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee Freakanomics- Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Animal Farm – George Orwell Dubner 1984 – George Orwell Revolution- Russell Brand www.theguardian.com/education/sociology www.sociologysal.blogspot.com www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/sociology www.gendersociety.wordpress.co www.tutor2u.net/sociology/blog m www.soc.washington.edu/news www.creativesociology.blogspot.c www.telegraph.co.uk om www.statistics.gov.uk www.sociologylens.net Useful websites British Sociological Association: www.britsoc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk Newspapers and www.discoversociology.co.uk and blogs http://www.heforshe.org Revision Websites Tutor2U www.tutor2u.net/sociology Hectic Teacher Hectic Teacher A level Sociology The Sociology Guy The Sociology Guy – Helping students understand society SENECA https://www.senecalearning.com/ Steve Chapman Family S-Cool Revision Materials A Level Sociology Revision | S-cool, the revision website Earlham Sociology http://www.earlhamsociologypages.co.uk Education Forum A Level Sociology Textbook websites Webb Textbook (Year 12 &13) Book One Activities Ken Browne (Year 13) http://politybooks.com/kenbrowne/resources.asp AQA Exam Board Website AQA New Specification – AS and A-level | Sociology | Introduction AQA - Example Assessment Material -AS and A-level | Sociology | Assessment resources Films www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/topics/ Poor Kids: Life on the Breadline (Child Poverty Sociology_of_culture Documentary) | Real Stories www.channel4.com/programmes/di BBC Panorama spatches Documentaries featuring : Child of our time Ross Kemp 7UP/UP Series Stacey Dooley Documentaries A good selection on this website Louis Theroux Documentaries @BrowneKen @ruseellhaggar1 @HecticTeacher @tutor2uSoc @kateFlat www.anchor.fm/allsociology www.thesocialbreakdown.com www.measureradio.libsyn.com/podcast www.soundcloud.com/thesociologicalreview www.socialsciencespace.com/author/socialsci www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05 encebites https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05 https://www.spreaker.com/user/thesociology www.anchor.fm/digital-sociology-podcast show - Interviews famous Sociologists Podcasts Podology :: Sociology Podcasts: Home Ted Talks TED talks https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=Thinki ng%20Allowed&suggid=urn%3abc%3Aprogramm es%3Ab006qy05 Social Theory Family Thinking Marx and Marxism Allowed Solo living BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Available now Extended families https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b0b2kpm0 (Radio 4) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 Marxism and Globalisation 5/episodes/player?page=36 Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Available now Single person household BBC Radio 4 - Alienation Thinking Allowed, Home Life 2: Single Person Household https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 5/episodes/player?page=41 The nuclear family BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Home Life 3: Nuclear Household Pierre Bourdieu special Romantic love BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 Love 5/episodes/player?page=12 Living apart relationships- Sasha Roseneil – Tribute to Ulrich Beck UCL- Social and Historical Sciences BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Available https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ykd7 now 7 Division of labour BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Interview with Stuart Hall Allowed, Division of Domestic Labour - Gentrification and Working-Class Residents Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Available now Mixed-Race families BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Tribute to Stuart Hall Allowed, Mixed-race families https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 5/episodes/player?page=23 Social Inequality Goffman special Neo-liberal economics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 5/episodes/player?page=25 5/episodes/player?page=24 Foucault special BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Gender inequality in China Allowed, Michel Foucault - a special programme on his work and influence. BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Gender Inequality in China; Smokestack Nostalgia Stan Cohen special https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 The Class Ceiling (Incudes Sociologist Sam Friedman) 5/episodes/player?page=28 BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The Class Education Ceiling MeritocracyRadio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Global higher education BBC Radio 4 - Available now Thinking Allowed, Global higher education - Homophobia and football The super rich BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Super Rich: The 1% of the 1% Black girls and education Thinking Allowed - Available now Social Class BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Available now The Attainment gap BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The Attainment Gap Social Identity Social Mobility and Education BBC Radio 4 - Subcultures Thinking Allowed, Human Rights in Northern Https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy Ireland, Social Mobility and Education 05/episodes/player?page=42 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy0 Snobbery (includes Sociologists David Morgan 5/episodes/player?page=44 and Bev Skeggs) Higher education crisis in the US BBC Radio 4 - BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The Thinking Allowed, Higher Education - Crisis or Generation Gap Change? AgeBBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Snobbery Elite Education- Inequality BBC Radio 4 - ChavsBBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Thinking Allowed, Elite education Available now Media The colour yellow- how it became attached to people of Asian origin Sociology of Twitter BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Twitter; Elite University Admissions BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias Class and reality TV- with Bev SkeggsBBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Class and Reality Growing Chinese middle class BBC Radio 4 - TV - Balti Britain Thinking Allowed, The changing middle classes Selfies- disconnected from ICTsBBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Selfies - disconnection from Social class survey BBC Radio 4 - Thinking ICTs Allowed, British class survey; Tribute to Geoff Pearson The internet and Democracy BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The Internet and The colour black, Mixed race identity BBC Democracy Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The colour black, Mixed-race people Cross class marriage BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed - Available now White Privilege- Racial Ambiguity BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, White Privilege - Racial Ambiguity Identity special BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Identity.