Sociology
Central is designed for use by a A-level Sociology teachers and
their students. To this end it offers a range of materials and information
for use both inside and outside the classroom. These include notes
on various AS/A2 modules (Deviance, Family Life, Media and so forth);
student worksheets; lesson plans; overhead transparencies; revision
materials (such as keyword files and revision cards) and study skills
links. The website also provides short reviews of useful Sociology-related
books across a range of modules.
A
level Sociology: Andy Walker’s A level Sociology site is
designed as a free distance learning resource for A1 and A2 students.
The site uses powerpoint lectures and interactive games and quizzes
to facilitate distance learning of course content. A dedicated Invision
power board is also linked from the site to encourage home school
links and peer group sociological discussion. Students and teachers
of sociology are invited to join. The site is becoming increasingly
popular amongst students and teachers alike and is a work in progress.
Teachers who would like to submit content or ideas for the site are
warmly invited to do so via e-mail”
BUBL
Sociology: BUBL Information Service, based at Strathclyde University
Library, is a searchable database of Internet resources of academic
relevance. The websites are organized by Dewey Decimal Classification
and can be searched by subject or class number. The sociology section
includes General Resources, Anthropology, Social Interaction, Social
Processes, Social Change, Population, Young People, Women, Social
Classes, Racial & Ethnic Groups and Culture & Institutions.
Sociology
Online is a website that carries essays, interactive quizzes/crosswords
and slideshows on subjects within the domains of criminology, politics
and sociology. It also carries a regularly updated SocioNews page
from which students and teachers can link to other relevant materials
on the Internet. The website is intended primarily for A Level and
undergraduate students and their teachers/lecturers.
School
Sociology: Janis Griffiths, Head of Sociology at Bryn Hafren Comprehensive
School and the Barry Sixth Form, is responsible for the School Sociology
website. It offers materials, study skills guidance and resources
for students of sociology at GCSE and A Level. There are powerpoint
presentations, pdf files and quiz shows.
Stuff
is the sociology site produced by a lecturer at City of Bristol College.
It is intended primarily as a resource for his students, a cyberspace
filing cabinet. Consequently, the site is rather uneven, it reflects
the specifications for the courses taught, and those aspects of the
specifications that are selected by the college. The site consists
of course notes that cover various substantive areas of the AS, A2
and Access Sociology specifications. There is a links section that
includes most of the best AS/A2 British School and College Sociology
sites, some University links and some sites of general sociological
interest. The skills page offers the chance to take some basic online
tests and crosswords and has some suggestions for improving exam performance.
The password protected area of the site contains information specifically
for City of Bristol Students, for example, online work-schemes and
homework timetables.
Sociology
Learning Support: Sociology Learning Support offers self-assessment
material for AS and A Level Sociology students. The tests are self-contained
and run directly from the site without plug ins. All tests can be
used with either AQA or OCR specifications. Students can do multiple-choice
quizzes, short answer tests, match items, gap-fill exercises and crosswords.
Topics for which tests are available include the Individual and Society
(Introduction to Sociology), Research Methods, Family, and Education.
New tests for these and other topics are in preparation.
DTC
Sociology Online: Sociology A1 is a self contained distance learning
resource for 6th form students at Dartford Technology College and
formed the bulk of a recent LSDA Action Research Project. Health and
Social Care provides support for AVCE students studying Unit One and
will soon be extended to cover other units PE A Level resources support
some units of the A1 in Physical Education Knowledge Management provides
and links to forums for educationalists and practitioners to share
ideas, methods and approaches The ICT pages are a collaborative project
between DTC and Thamesview School to encourage online interactive
learning in ICT at Key Stage 3.
History
of Education: Henk
van Setten, associate professor at the University of Nijmegen in the
Netherlands, is responsible for this very impressive website. The
site lists and provides links with resources on the Internet that
contains information on education and childhood. Categories include:
Educators, Parenthood & Family, Childhood & Play, Children's
Books, Childhood Perceptions, Child Abuse, Women in Education, Higher
Education, Special Education and Vocational Education. A well-designed
website, this is an extremely valuable resource for any student of
education.
Sociologists
- Dead and Very Much Alive: This website is based at the Department
of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. The group is involved
in several projects but the excellent Sociologist - Dead and Very
Much Alive website is an attempt to provide a comprehensive listing
of all sociology resources on the Internet. Fifty-six sociologists
are listed including several who are still very much alive. The material
includes interviews, articles, text of out of print books and discussion
groups. It is also possible to search for material by subject area.
World
Catalogue: Sociology: Set
of links to selected, evaluated and annotated resources for sociology,
maintained by the Exeter University Library. Material is listed under
Sociologists, Schools and Theories, Teaching and Methodology, Popular
Culture, Social Change, Sociology of Children, Sociology of Economics,
Education, Gender and Sexuality, Law and Crime, Sociology of Medicine,
Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Sport, Work and the Family.
The website also includes links to a large number of online journals
and discussion groups.
Sociological
Tour Through Cyberspace: Michael
Kearl, Professor of Sociology at Trinity University, San Antonio,
Texas, has produced what he calls a Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace.
Kearl is interested in exploring the potential of the Internet to
"generate discourse" and to help it become a "theatre
of ideas". The website features commentary, data analyses, essays,
and links to other websites. Subjects covered include 'Death and Dying'
and 'Social Inequality'. The website also includes a useful guide
for writing research papers.
The
Marx/Engels Archive: This
website provides a comprehensive collection of the writings of Karl
Marx and Fredrich Engels. The material available is constantly expanding
and eventually it will contain everything the two men published. It
also includes material from writers influenced by Marx and Engels.
The website is produced by a group of volunteers from Colorado's Progressive
Sociology Network and is completely free to use. The authors tell
us that "the real profit will hopefully manifest in the form
of individual enlightenment through easy access to these classic works".
Multicultural
Pavilion: Paul
Gorski from Virginia is responsible for this very impressive website.
In his mission statement Gorski explains that he is attempting "to
provide resources for educators to explore and discuss multicultural
education; to facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward
self-awareness and development; and to provide forums for educators
to interact and collaborate". Features of the site include Teacher's
Corners (multicultural resources for teachers online); International
Project (information on what is going on in multicultural education
around the world); Online Discussion Board (forum for online exchanges
about multicultural issues) and Multicultural Activity Archives (experimental
activities for exploring multicultural issues).
Research
in Education: The Scottish Council for Research in Education
(SCRE) have now made their excellent journal Research in Education
available on the Internet. The website also includes an excellent
database of research reports that can be found on the Internet and
a list of the research projects that the Scottish Office Education
and Industry Department (SOEID) intends to commission over the coming
months.
Education-Line:
Education-Line is
funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils as part of the Electronic
Libraries Programme. Maintained by Sam Saunders at the University
of Leeds, Education-Line is developing what it calls "a live
collection of documents" on the Internet. The website enables
researchers to present their work at an early stage in its development
where it can be reviewed by the world-wide academic community. Education-Line
is also involved in providing access to specialized or small-scale
texts that would otherwise have difficulty finding a publisher.
The
Philosophy of Education:
The Philosophy of Education Society produce a Yearbook that includes
eighty or so essays on the subject. The current edition is available
from the University of Illinois. However, recently the Philosophy
of Education Society has put previous Yearbooks (1992-1999) online.
The website has an efficient search facility that enables the visitor
to search for authors and key words in the database of articles.
Early
Childhood Research & Practice:
ECRP is a electronic journal sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education
and organized by the University of Illinois. Published biannually,
the journal includes articles that cover topics related to the development,
care, and education of children from birth to approximately age eight.
ECRP concentrates on reporting on practice-related research and development
and issues relating to parent participation. The current edition includes
online articles such as Children's Social Behaviour in Relation to
Participation in Mixed-Age or Same-Age Classrooms and Early Childhood
Special Education and Distance Learning.
EdResearch
Online: EdResearch is a freely searchable web database. It includes
11,000 records from the Australian Education Index, covering all educational
sectors. 8500 of the documents are available on the web for free with
the remainder available for a copyright fee.
Social
Science Information Gateway is a freely available Internet service
which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet
information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners
in the social sciences, business and law. It offers users the chance
to read descriptions of resources available over the Internet and
to access those resources directly. The Catalogue points to thousands
of resources, and each one has been selected and described by a librarian
or academic. The catalogue is browsable or searchable by subject area.
Mead
Project: Compiled and created by Lloyd Gordon Ward and Robert
Throop at the Brock University Department of Sociology in Canada,
the Mead Project contains an array of primary documents by George
Herbert Mead and his contemporaries. Along with a collection of seminal
papers and articles written by Mead from 1881 to 1938, the site also
contains a variety of supplementary scholarship produced by William
James and John Dewey.
Multiple
Intelligences: It has been claimed by some researchers that our
intelligence or ability to understand the world around us is complex.
Some people are better at understanding some things than others. For
some of us it is relatively easy to understand how a flower grows
but it is immensely difficult for us to understand and use a musical
instrument. For others music might be easy but playing football is
difficult. Instead of having one intelligence it is claimed that we
have several different intelligences. Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Logical,
Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Musical, Visual/Spatial and Naturalistic.
This website enables you to find out what special intelligences you
have.
NationMaster
is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare
nations. Using the form provided you can generate maps and graphs
with ease on all kinds of statistics. The graphs cover topics such
as crime, currency. democracy, economy, education, energy, environment,
geography, government, health, identification, labour, language, media,
military, people, religion, sports and transportation. It also lets
you look back in history with the popular GDP per capita statistics
for the years 1820, 1900, 1950 and 1973. You can also look ahead to
2050 with these projected population growth rates.
Myth
Busters: The Refugee Council is the largest organisation in the
UK working with asylum seekers and refugees. It has recently launched
a campaign to "demonstrate the valuable contribution that refugees
make to the UK economy and society". The issue of asylum is rarely
out of the British press. But can you believe everything you read?
The website's Myth Buster provides the facts behind the headlines.
Crime
Statistics: This website uses data from 'Crime in England and
Wales 2002/2003' Published on 17 July 2003, it brings together police
recorded crime figures with data collected by the British Crime Survey
(BCS) to provide a comprehensive account of the latest patterns and
trends in the main high-volume crimes. The recorded crime data is
provided by the 43 police forces throughout England & Wales, who
are required to supply the Home Office with monthly figures for all
of the Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) in their
police force area. You can also access long-term data from the British
Crime Survey - the most reliable indicator of long-term crime trends.
GlobLog:
Johan Norberg is head of political ideas at the free-market think
tank Timbro in Stockholm. He is the author of the award-winning book
In Defence of Global Capitalism (2001). On his website he explains:
"I believe that we should have individual rights and liberties
because man needs to live by his individual reason and strive for
self-realisation. I am passionate about the Enlightenment ideals of
reason, secularisation, education and liberty, and the adulation of
science, technology and progress." On his website Norberg shares
his latest thoughts and explains what he is doing to promote global
capitalism.
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