Russell Haggar
Site Owner
Latest Links
This page contains a selection of new Sociology and Government and Politics links which I have collected between September 2020 and December 2020. I shall update the list again at the end of each term
Families and Households
Click here for a bundle of Family PPTs from Chris Livesey
Click here for Changing patterns in parental time use
Click here and here for Coronavirus and Time Use May 2020
Sociology of Education
Social Class and Education
Click here for Conversation article on Free School meals
Click here for latest DfE data on Widening Participation in HE 2019/19 [published July 2020] and click here for a Guardian article on this DfE Report
Click here for a very useful article on Cultural Capital by David Buckingham
Click here for Basil Bernstein and labelling
Click here for new item on the white working class and education
Click here for recent article by Diane Reay and here for Diane Reay’s views on external and internal factors
Click here for recent Class-Education research using NS SEC
Click here for report on “Gifted and Talented pupils” from House of Commons Library [December 2020]
Click here for catch up tuition
Ethnicity and Education
Click here for data on students with English as Additional Language
Click here for Professor Kalwant Bhopal lecture: Social justice, exclusion and white privilege in universities
Click here for Being Black at Cambridge University
Click here for ethnicity and Curriculum
Click here for detail on Afro=Caribbean GCSE results from education data lab
Click here for education data lab report; How pupil characteristics interact to influence education outcomes
Click here for Guardian article on school exclusions of Black working class students
Click here for an article on racism inside schools
Click here for a detailed article on Chinese students by Professor Becky Francis and colleagues
Education Policy
Click here for article by Michael Apple on Neoliberalism, neoconservatism and education policy
Click here for detailed paper on Conservative Education policy 2015-2020
Click here for an Education Policy podcast which covers education policies since 1944 in some detail. The podcast lasts approximately. two hours
Click here for Parliamentary brief on student loans
Click here for post-GCSE education trends [BBC]
Click here for Sutton Trust Report: School Places: A Fair Choice
Click here for Geography and Social Mobility from Social mobility Commission and video presentation here
Click here for HE Commons Research Briefing: Higher education student numbers
Click here for Education Policy Institute Report
Click here for George Monbiot’s critical assessment of the Policy Exchange Think Tank
Click here for public school subsidies
Click here for detailed DFE PISA Report 2018
Click here for detailed DFE TIMSS Report 2020
Click here and here and here and here for more coverage of TIMMS report
Social Differentiation and Stratification
Click here for an article on Max Weber
Click here for Social Mobility Commission State of the Nation Report 2018-19
Click here for Does Class Still matter?
Click here for a podcast of Leo Panitch discussing Ralph Miliband’s The State in Capitalist Society
Click here for an article on Friedrich Engels
Click here for a talk on Multiculturalism by Professor Tariq Modood
Click here for links to employment and NS SEC data
Click here for three useful government publications on gender and equality
Click here for link to excellent recent free E textbook on Ethnicity, Race and Inequality
Click here for Race and Ethnic Disparities [ House of Commons Library Briefing Paper [September 2020]
Click here for Report of the Wealth Tax Commission: A Wealth Tax for Britain and here for Guardian coverage of the report
Click here for a JRF Report: Destitution in the UK 2020
Crime and Deviance
Click here for Crime in England and Wales: Year Ending June 2020
Click here for Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2018
Click here for Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System 2019
Theory and Methods
Click here for 6 lectures on Sociological Theory
Click here for a Modernity/Postmodernity timeline
Click here for The Sociology Show: An Introduction to Postmodernism
Click here for two lectures on Postmodernism by Professor Jeremy Gilbert
Click here for a series of philosophy/politics/sociology podcasts with information on postmodernism
Click here for a series of podcasts by Professor Stephen Hicks on Postmodernism and Education
Click here for extended lecture on Postmodernism by Professor Stephen Hicks
Click here for a very similar extended lecture by Professor Hicks
Click here for a critique of Professor Hicks
Click here for another Item by Professor Hicks
Click here for some rather difficult resources on Postmodernism
Click here for a Postmodernism site which has with a lot of information on Fredric Jameson
Click here for a small Postmodernism website
Click here and here and here for more information on Postmodernism
Click here , here , here , here , here , and here for information on Ulrich Beck
Click here for the relevance of Ulrich Beck in the time of COVID19
UK Government and Politics and Political Ideologies Links
Click here for Tides of History: Commentary on Labour History, British Politics and Working Class Culture
Click here for The A Level Politics Show: a series of podcasts on UK and USA Government and Politics by Mr Nick de Souza
Click here for a list of Explainers from The Institute for Government
Click here for The Constitution Unit Website
Click here for Tory Leaders and their MPs [Radio 4 Analysis]
Click here for The Brexit Storm [BBC documentary]
Click here for Brexit Behind Closed Doors Part One
Click here for Brexit Behind Closed Doors Part Two
Click here for a link to podcasts from the LSE
Click here for Patrick Dunleavy Lectures on the UK Party System
Click here for LSE British Government course [from 2014/15]