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This Academy Award-nominated documentary-study is a coming-of-age saga drawing on over 12 years of footage in Rockford, Illinois, hit hard by decades of recession. A quest to understand why so many of the...
Seminar hosted by Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips. Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Lessard-Phillips explains that families are deemed to play a major role in shaping processes...
Seven short films featuring leading sociologists talking about key concepts in Crime and Deviance: Moral Panics (with Stan Cohen); The Functions of Crime (Steve Taylor); Hate Crime (Neil Chakraborti);...
Four films that introduce students to major issues and debates encountered at the start of any Sociology course. ‘What Is Sociology’ introduces problems of order, change and the relationship between the...
This film of resilience and solidarity uncovers the mystery of a young woman from Africa who has arrived in Britain after being persecuted in her own country. Alongside her story are the perspectives of the...
The relationship between technological change and social behaviour is a significant one for sociologists and this film explores some of the ways new communication technologies, such as mobile phones and...
This short film uses a simple, contemporary case study - fashion and the possible sexualisation of girls - to examine and explore three related questions: What is childhood? What does it do for children? Is...
The decision to use English in countries where it is not the first language is controversial. English is often attacked for causing real social and cultural damage. In South Africa, some schools are refusing...
Filmed over the summer of 2012, GROWING UP POOR follows six teenagers as they struggle to make ends meet living on less then £10.00 a day. Speaking with quick wit and brutal honesty, each of the film’s...
Writer and theorist Mark Fisher speaks about his book ‘Capitalist Realism Is There no Alternative? (Zero Books 2009) in which he addresses the condition of ideological malaise produced by neo-liberal...
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