Russell Haggar
Site Owner
Useful Sites for Advanced Level Sociology Theory and Methods
This section is very much a work in progress and I hope to add further links during the course of the year.
The first fifteen of these links are to general sites on Theory and Methods . Some of the subsequent links are to sometimes more difficult sources which might provide useful points of clarification on the work of some of important theorists who are mentioned in introductory Sociology texts.
General
For podcasts on Sociological Theory from Esher Sociology - Click Here
Visit Steve Bassett’s You Tube Channel: Theory, Methods and much more - Click Here
Visit the Precooked Sociology Page Some podcasts on Theory and Methods - Click Here
Mr Steven Humphrys has recently uploaded resources on Theory and Methods to the TES site. There were originally written for older AQA Sociology specifications but they are nevertheless very useful. Click Here and Here for Theory and Methods respectively.
Visit the Introduction to Sociology YouTube Channel : Professor Robert Van Krieken : Sociological Theory and much more - Click Here
Visit The Sociology Teacher [Kate Flatley’s You tube site] which has useful advice on Sociological Methods in Context and much more - Click Here
For a useful presentation on Marx, Weber, Durkheim - Click Here
For lectures on Marx, Durkheim and Weber - Click Here
Chris Livesey’s collation of resources on Theory and Methods: Theory and Methods - Click Here October 2022
Visit Alexandra Sugden’s YouTube Channel for podcasts on Crime and Deviance [and Sociological Theories, Research Methods and Education] - ClickHere
Visit The Social Scientist’s YouTube Channel on Theory and Methods - Click Here
For a series of detailed lectures on Sociological Theory by Kurt Borchard [There are also some lectures on Crime and Deviance] - Click Here
Visit MattyP’s SlideShare notes on Objectivity and Values - Click Here
Visit Dan Krier’s You Tube Channel on Sociological Theory - Click Here
Visit the University of Amsterdam You Tube Channel Short lectures on Comte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim and others - Click Here
Visit this Revision site for a complete set of Revision Notes on Crime and Deviance and Theory and Methods [AQA Syllabus] - Click Here
Visit the Sociological Theory section of Karl Thompson’s Revise Sociology site - Click Here
Visit Graham R. Gibb’s series of lectures on Social Research Methods and Design.
Mr Steven Humphrys has recently uploaded resources on Theory and Methods to the TES site. There were originally written for older AQA Sociology specifications but they are nevertheless very useful. Click Here
And Here for Theory and Methods respectively.
Ms Sarah Best has recently uploaded some very useful resources on Families and Households, Beliefs and Society and Sociological Theory to the “Drop Box” on the AQA A Level Sociology Teachers page - Click Here
For a detailed article on Values in Sociology by Martyn Hammersley - Click Here
For a Sociology Lecture Course - Click Here
by Ann Swiddler from Berkeley University. These lectures are quite detailed and may be more useful for teachers and for students in the second year of their Advanced Level Sociology course . In my view they are exceptional. Unfortunately no longer available.
For Dave Harris site - Click Here
Marx, Marxism and Neo-Marxism
My Notes on Marxism …with further links - Click Here
Gramsci and Neo-Marxism: An Introduction - Click Here October 2017
Why Marx was Right[ Terry Eagleton discusses his book] - Click Here March 2014
For Professor Bob Jessop’s audio lecture series [with slides] on Antonio Gramsci - Click Here May 2014
For two Guardian series of articles by Peter Thompson on Marxism and on The Frankfurt School - Click Here April 2014
Modernity and Postmodernity
For useful introductory lecture by Myles Riley on Modernity and Postmodernity - Click Here
For Postmodernism for beginners ]Chris Deakin via SlideShare - Click Here
For a series of podcasts on The Modern and the Postmodern by Jasson Cordones - Click Here
The following links to two series of lectures by Professor Rick Roderick include lectures on Nietzsche, Foucault ,Derrida ,and Baudrillard which, although not easy , provide useful information on Postmodernism.
Philosophy Lectures from Professor Rick Roderick [R.I.P] - Click Here December 2014
The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the C20th [Also from Professor Roderick] - Click Here December 2014
Human: All Too Human: Friedrich Nietzsche ; Martin Heidegger; Jean Paul Sartre [3 part video series] February 2014
Michel Foucault
Lecture on Michel Foucault - Click Here
Introduction to Foucault [Mark Thorsby] - Click Here
Foucault: Discipline and Punish - Click Here
Foucault and Governmentality - Click Here
Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil - Click Here
Laurie Taylor: Thinking Allowed on Michel Foucault - Click Here
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida [Guardian Obituary] - Click Here
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard [Guardian Obituary] - Click Here
Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson - Click Here
David Harvey
David Harvey’s Animation on Crises of Capitalism - Click Here
David Harvey in discussion on “Hard Talk” - Click Here
David Harvey LSE Lecture : The 17 Contradictions of Capitalism - Click Here May 2014
The Contradictions of Capitalism : A Shorter Version - Click Here
David Harvey RSA Lecture [Shorter version] - Click Here
Laurie Taylor: Thinking Allowed on Neoliberalism One; Two
Laurie Taylor : Thinking Allowed on Capitalism with Ha-Joon Chang and David Harvey - Click Here
Ulrich Beck: Risk Society
For two short items on Risk Society [Professor Brian Wynne] - Click Here and Here
For 2006 lecture by Ulrich Beck: Living in a world risk society - Click Here
For a lecture by Ulrich Beck on World Risk Society - Click Here
For a slideshare presentation on Risk Society - Click Here
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens: Living in a high opportunity, high risk society - Click Here
Anthony Giddens; Living in the C21st - Click Here
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman - Click Here
Zygmunt Bauman [Guardian 2003] - Click Here
Zygmunt Bauman [Guardian Review of Liquid Love 2003] - Click Here
Interview with Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid Modernity and Related Matters - Click Here
Summary of Liquid Modernity Chapters 1-4 by Karl Thompson - Click Here
Interview with Zygmunt Bauman - Click Here
Zygmunt Bauman [Guardian obituary] - Click Here