The BBC Prison Study explores the social and psychological consequences of putting people in groups of unequal power. It examines when people accept inequality and when they challenge it. These findings have changed our basic understanding of how groups and power work. In this program, Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher tell the story of the largest field study in social psychology for over 30 years, using original illustrative film from the BBC series. As well as documenting their study, Haslam and Reicher look at social identity and its implications, the ethics of the study, their sources of data, and comparisons with the Stanford Prison Study.
Producers: VEA Group Pty Ltd
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Doing Sociological Research
See Sociological research in action, in four short videos that bring research methods to life in educational contexts. This video features four key studies: Introduction to Social Research, Survey Research, Interviews in Sociology and Observational Research and the DVD includes lesson plans, PowerPoint’s, classroom activities and follow-up references and resources.
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Introducing Sociology
What do you say when your students ask, “What is Sociology”? Let this video help. Leading sociologists like Anthony Giddens explain and illustrate what it means to adopt a ‘sociological approach’ and students talk about studying sociology. Ideal for Open Days and for students just starting sociology.
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Technology in Trekking
Technology has transformed our use of the great outdoors. From the shoes we wear to the ropes that hold our lives in the balance when rock climbing, much has changed in the past 50 years. But has it all been for good? This program examines the many ways technology has changed our outdoor experiences.
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The Thinking Curriculum
Knowledge is a tradeable commodity and a driving force in global life. Modern learning is about using information to construct new understandings. Students need the ability to control knowledge – to access, organize, analyze, evaluate and use information effectively. This program looks at specific higher order thinking skills – those that can be applied both in the classroom, and life beyond it. Content must be rich and contribute to the use of thinking skills and strategies. We show how a thinking curriculum can be introduced to and applied in the classroom.
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PE Theories of Learning
This 25 minute syllabus specific program uses a number of practical examples to explore four key psychological theories and their application to learning sporting skills; Social Learning Theory, Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Theory, Schema and Skills Transition and gives exam advice and guidance.
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Sue Sharpe on Just like a Girl
In the first part of this program Sue Sharpe explains how and why her work came to be focused on working class girls, her shift from quantitative to qualitative methods and her use of content analysis. In the second part, she discusses the correspondence she found between the images of femininity portrayed in popular culture and the aspirations of the majority of girls she interviewed to leave school as soon as possible, get an office job and settle down to have children. She also talks about her follow-up study 20 years later, where she found a much more cynical attitude to marriage and family but little change in girls’ educational and career aspirations.
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Crime and Deviance
n this program we take a journey through time to show how ideas about crime have moved in and out of fashion, how some of the latest strategies of crime prevention go back to the 19th Century and how thinking about crime and deviance is influenced by wider social changes.
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Day Care
There has been an explosion of day care in the last three decades. But what are the effects on children’s long term development? Starting from a nursery, this program explores these questions with case studies, documentary sources and expert analysis from Jay Belsky and Julia Berryman.
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Families and Households
Although sociology is full of long and complicated words, it’s important to remember it’s about the lives of real people. These are the first lines of this program and they set the tone. Filmed on location, it makes the topic of families more accessible by interweaving key sociological ideas with real people’s experiences of family life.