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  1. Creation of Childhood, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at Neil Postman’s controversial theory that childhood was created by the printing press. Discusses what a child’s life was like in the medieval period prior to the invention of the printing press...

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  2. Disappearing Childhood (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Neil Postman argues that childhood is disappearing as a result of watching television. Shows that children are not passive receivers of their culture but active agents in their own socialisation and...

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  3. Domesday Disc, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Geography; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, 2 interactive videodiscs. Laservision ROM. Philips 415. BBC Advanced Interactive System. col.

    Two discs: the National Disc contains over 9000 sets of data from archives all over Britain. The Community Disc is based on over 24,000 Ordnance Survey maps and street plans.

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  4. Hotel London (1987 Film, Video)

    Director
    Ahmed Jamal
    Producer
    Mahmood Jamal
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shot in a bed and breakfast hotel after months of research with homeless families and single people, looks at the effects of the housing crisis in London and relates these facts to the general economic...

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  5. Opening Doors: Some Personal Views (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the growth of women’s groups and the different democratic forms they are adopting. Here, individual women are asked about the social forces that motivated and radicalised them, and their answers...

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  6. Working for Piece Work Wages (1987 Video)

    Director
    Phyliss Waught
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videoassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min.

    Most of the 10,000 workers in the Toronto garment industry are migrant women and most of these work for low piece work wages, accompanied by high production quotas and poor working conditions. These women...

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  7. Cogs in the Wheel? (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Clare Falkner
    Subject
    Economics; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Examines whether economic changes are due to conscious actions of individuals, social classes and groups (agency) or whether changes result from the nature of the economic system itself (structure). Takes...

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  8. Command and Control of Nuclear Weapons, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Roger Penfound
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    The command and control of nuclear weapons systems in the USA has been at the centre of much debate about its ability to withstand a pre-emptive nuclear strike. Looks at some of the criticisms of the current...

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  9. Dateline: San Salvador (1986 Video)

    Director
    Pamela Cohen
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    After years of government repression, 80,000 people risked their lives on May 1st 1976 to take part in a protest march and demand an end to the civil war. Documents that march and explores the peoples’...

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  10. Face of Jewish Socialism, The (1986 Video)

    Director
    Riva Krut; Ronnie Landau
    Producer
    Jerome Reback
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 32 min.

    A history of Jewish socialism between 1881 and the First World War. It deals not only with Jewish socialism inside Russia under the last two Czars, but with socialism as an international export, via over two...

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