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NEW!! Adorno -- some notes on key texts including
Dialectic of the Enlightenment
Althusser
and ideology - a critical reading guide to his famous essay on ISAs
assessment -
a menu page leading to a collection of files on assessment practices
approaches
to James Bond movies - three main approaches outlined (including
Eco)
NEW!!
audio files -- talks and
discussions in MP3 format. DIY podcasting!
avant-garde
cinema - a short course at level 3
NEW!! Balls magazine -- brilliant
and engaging teaching materials for sport and PE
Bernstein
on children’s language - early work on language, class and
underachievement
(graphics)
body
language - a preliminary rant and unfair mickey-take
Bourdieu
on the sociology of 'taste' -
short discussion of the basics, then applied to film
Bowles
& Gintis on schooling in the USA - a critical discussion
of this
famous piece on 'reproduction'
Bowles
and Gintis -- latest - the study upgraded with reference to
2002 US
data
children and the media -
an
undergrad course, spanning ed.studies and media studies
children
and the media -- notes - substantial notes for the course (now
as
separate files)
cities
and their pleasures - reading the city, on the background to
'theming' etc
commercial
& 'experimental' cinema - introduction to connections
between
these two
crime and deviancy- large collection discussing subculture theories,
labelling theory,
social
disorganisation, marxist approaches. NEW -- multimedia introduction (RLO)
NEW Critical analysis --
short notes on a collection of approaches
Cultural
Studies in Educational Context - conference paper discussing
effects of university
organisation on radical courses
deep and surface
learning - outline with (slightly unusual) sociological criticisms
Disney
theme parks - longish theoretical summary and commentary pro and
con
Disney
visitors - empirical research on Disney visitors and their
pleasures (with D Moore)
distance
education & social inequality - part 1. Discusses UK Open
University
and 'open-ness'
distance
ed and course design - part 2 of above, on techniques of course
design
educational
achievement and teacher expectations - 'new sociology of
education',
labelling theory and teacher expectations as a factor in
underachievement
ed
tech & new tech - possible
implications of the Web as teaching device
education
and underachievement - critical review of 3 early British studies
of
'class' (Fraser,
education policy
and sociological
models - debates about moving towards a meritocratic
education system in the
educational
history - a critical sequence ranging from early 1800s
(monitorialism),
through to
deschooling and 'the end of the university'. Linked to works of Bentham
with
crits by Marx and Foucault
ed
tech and 'critical theory' - paper
for a BSA conference -- illustrates both and discusses critically
'escape'
in leisure studies - outline based on the work of C Rojek
face-to-face teaching - critical reflections from my 'learning log' charting
my own practice
Freud
and film theory - intro, metapsychology and work on
dreams
applied to films
gender
and education - outline of gender factors in underachievement
Godard
for beginners - the Great Man's
'style' and politics, and a few films reviewed
Gramsci
-- basics applied to education - on the
ambiguous legacy of another Great Man
guests'
page - largely student essays and dissertations
Hegel
(on Reason, the dialectic etc) - guide to
Heritage
Industry-- a discussion - critical
discussion of the
pros and cons
Leisure
policy and the State - a menu page leading to files on semi-deviant
leisure
Marx on commodity
fetishism -
quick intro to the main points
Marx
on surplus value - very basic and quick (530 words!!)
Marx
and Weber on stratification - an answer to an emailed question
Marxist
controversies: politics - old favourites summarised --
Miliband vs
Poulantzas on the capitalist state; Laclau and Mouffe versus Geras
and
Townshend on 'post-Marxism' . See also 'race'
and class.
Mcdonaldization - the basics, Weber
background, then applied to the Mcdonaldization of the university. NEW RLO
(multimedia) file on
Macdonaldization with a talk and some additional reading.
moral
relativism? - case studies too, including mourning of Diana episode
Mulvey -- classic work on the 'male gaze' with
follow-ups. My
most visited file!
music
videos - early debates, marxist v pomo analyses
NEW!! Open University (UK) -- extracts from my first
book (now out of print) on the UKOU. Still the best sociological
critique I know. History of the OU too.
NEW!! Positivist Dispute -- the great
debates about positivism in social science between critical theory
(Adorno, Habermas) and critical rationalism (Popper, Albert and Pilot)
pleasures
in Bond movies - brief intro to theories (eg Freud) then examples
postfordism
and since - discussion with examples, mostly from 'New Times'
group
postmodernism
-- basics - crits of 'foundationalism' as main example.
Written
as a dialogue
quantitative
methods - collects together good examples of quants in use
qualitative
methods
- collects together good examples of quals. in use
questions
and answers - emailed questions and my replies-- constantly updated
''race'
and sociological theory - early piece, reviews classics in
'race' and social class -- a more recent
commentary with links to summaries of specific articles
'realism
in cinema - reviews classic debates
(MacCabe,Williams etc)
research
methods -
a course utilising online resources (draft)
NEW Re-usable Learning Objects (RLOs),
designed by Ian Gilhespy and Dave Harris on a variety of subjects
(some are specified elsewhere in this list)
shopping: profits and
pleasures -
summary of classic CultStuds pieces
social
class in the UK- recent data on social class inequalities and
basic
arguments, including implications for sports policy
social mobility studies
(British and
classic) - summarises and illustrates 'Oxford Studies' NB
tables are
rendered as (quite large) graphics which may take several minutes to
download
social
mobility studies (British and more recent) - summarises the great
debate
between Saunders and his critics about whether the data show that
social
theory/sociology
- my notes on some classic and central sociology texts. More than
100
sets. Based
on my Social Theory book. Authors include Adorno, Becker, Bourdieu,
Buitler, Foucault,
Fraser, Garfinkel, Giddens, Goffman, Habermas, Hall, Mulvey, Willis
sociology
of leisure- reviews of recent journal articles
(more than 100 at present) in this fascinating field. Based on my ‘Key
Concepts’ book.
Includes material relating to authenticity, bodies, ethnography,
figurationalism, gender, identity, heritage, Maccannell,
McDonaldization,
pornography,
youth cultures
sociology of religion
- on
'founding parents', bits on secularisation etc
NEW!! study skills -- some
additional material (including RLOs) to complement our new book
television
and violence - a classic empirical study (by
video
games and violence - a famous (old but good) experimental study
reviewed
(Anderson and Ford)
video
games and violence 2- an updated (2000) extension of the study
above (
Colleagues' papers
I Gilhespy's pages -
substantial
and insightful discussions on management and arts/leisure policy
S.Gillen's pages - excellent pieces on
leisure and tourism
Dr
Paul Grosch's pages - thought-provoking pieces on philosophy and
its
applications
Dr Robert
Guyver's pages - critical and useful papers on history
teaching/history concepts
Dr J
Haynes and K Murris - an intriguing dialogue on philosophising with
children
Tom Nashe -- on the theatre and history
Dr
Alan Munton's pages - insightful critical work on Orwell and
Wyndham Lewis, psychiatry and
modernism, surrealist poetry and other topics
Dr
Will Large's pages - excellent introductions to key philosophical
thinkers
Dr
Vanessa Parffrey's pages - thoughtful discussion papers on schools,
leadership
and
spirituality
N.Sherriff's pages -- a wide variety of
very useful material in leisure, sport and tourism
Dr
Paul Sutton's pages -
critical sociological and
historical analysis using Foucaultian approaches
Prof A Thatcher's pages --
internationally-known ('applied') theology