Russell Haggar
Site Owner
Topics in this Section
Section 3 - The Mass Media [NEW links added March 2014]
Section 3 - Recent Developments in Feminism
Section 3 - Welfare and Inequality
The Mass Media [NEW links added March 2014]
Noam Chomsky on The Mass Media [Thanks to C. P. MacLochlann]
Click here for a critical assessment of the organisation and activities of the Mass Media in the USA [Video 25 minutes: You Tube]
Click here for recent Opinion Poll for Guardian showing respondents more likely to believe that the BBC has a left-wing bias than to believe that it has a right-wing bias
Click here and here for articles suggesting that the BBC has a Right Wing Bias
Click here for a 9 part series of Podcasts on Media Sociology produced by Steve Bassett of Park College Eastbourne.
Recent Developments in Feminism
Judith Butler. Queer Theory and Gender Performativity April 2014
Gloria de Piero on Mary Wollstonecraft March 2014
For a two part lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft click here and here
Kimberle Crenshaw Lecture on Feminist Theory [LSE Podcast] March 2014
Germaine Greer discusses The Whole Woman [from 1999] April 2014
Germaine Greer Lecture 2012 April 2014
Feminism and Privilege [From March 2014 WOW Conference on Feminist Issues] March 2014
Vast Array of Talks and Discussions on Feminist Issues [From March 2014 Conference on Feminist Issues] March 2014
Welfare and Inequality
How TV Portrays the Working Class [Owen Jones TV Lecture Clip]
Chavs [Owen Jones in discussion with Laurie Taylor BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed]
Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class {Owen Jones Video]
Independent Article by Owen Jones Feb.2014
The Price of Inequality [Joseph Stiglitz video]
The Equalities Trust Homepage [Several relevant articles here]
The website of Professor Danny Dorling [Excellent resources on Social Inequality] October 2014
The Establishment and how they get away with it[ Owen Jones LSE podcast] October 2014
Inequality and the 1% what goes wrong when the rich become too rich[Professor Danny Dorling Podcast from LSE] December 2014
Why We cannot afford the Rich Part One; Part Two{Professor Andrew Sayer] December 2014
The New Social Mobility[Video Lecture by Dr Geoff Payne] June 2015
The Precariat: the new, dangerous class [Video Lecture by Professor Guy Standing ] June 2015
The Precariat; A bogus concept? by Jan Breman
Article by Guy Standing : response to Jan Breman on the Precariat
Is the precariat a class? by E.O. Wright
The Precariat[Thinking Allowed with Laurie Taylor, Prof Guy Standing and Dr Lisa McKenzie ] June 2015
Beyond the Spirit Level[Video Lecture by Professor Kate Pickett ] June 2015
Further Sections
Section 1 - Aspects of Politics: Theory and Practice
Section 1 - Some Key Historical Topics
Section 2- The USSR and Russia
Section 2 - The Middle East
Section 2 - China
Section 2 - The History of Ireland
Section 2 - The Cold War [24 part series]
Section 4 - Annual Political Reviews 2015-2019
Section 4 - Conservatives 1979-2020
Section 4 - Labour: 1979-2020
Section 4 - Liberal Democrats
Section 4 - The Financial Crisis
Section 4- British Government Institutions
Section 5 - USA Presidents from J. F. Kennedy to Barak Obama
Section 5 - The USA In the Vietnam War 1962 -1975
Section 5 - Recent Presidential Elections
Section 5 - The US Supreme Court