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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...social fact’ in our work, but then disappears as a ‘social fiction’ from our personal lives. As is often the case, Stuart Hall put his finger on it when he reflected on how Marxism morphed into cultural studies in the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1980s: We had to develop a methodology that taught us to attend, not only to what people said about race...
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Video 30 mins
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...social factors which coalesced to invest these ‘canonic’ works with great cultural capital, while others – including music written by women – were excluded. Cultural capital is a concept developed by the influential French sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron in the second half of the twentieth century (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1977). In their...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...social reformer [Caroline Norton image] Back in the day, women were seen as men's property upon marriage so were given no rights whe it came to divorce - something Caroline Norton fought against. Born in 1808, she is famed for being a social reformer and author. Caroline Sheridan, her name before marriage, was born into a well-connected but not well-off family. She...
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Article 15 mins
What is trauma?
Society, Politics & Law

What is trauma?

...social, emotional, or spiritual well-being' (SAMHSA). A chronic state of hyperarousal places a lot of stress on every system in the body. The Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey demonstrates a link between adverse experiences in childhood and adolescence and a person’s future health and relationship formation. Social inequalities shape the level of exposure that...
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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...work tirelessly to provide localities throughout the world with trees. These trees keep on giving. While protecting against climate change, they provide further societal benefits. They offer unique habitats to insects and animals that can increase biodiversity and are a potential source of local food production. Local trees can provide a huge range of ecosystem and public...
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Article 10 mins
Studying mammals: Food for thought
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Food for thought

...social structure in both apes and humans to gain an understanding of where we come from and why we behave as we do. This is the tenth course in the Studying mammals series...Who were our ancestors? How are apes and humans related? And where does the extinct Homo erectus fit into the puzzle? In this free course, Studying mammals: Food for thought, we will examine culture,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...social state of the nation. The work was an immediate success, selling 7,500 copies and being reprinted five times within six months of its publication. It went through nine English editions by 1811 and 18 by 1830. It was published in the United States in 1798, and translated into French in 1821 and Spanish in 1827. In the opinion of Daniel Wilson, a prominent Evangelical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...social arrangements. Activity 8 Select the answer for Question 1a here Listen to the dialogue between Pilar and Nacho, then select the correct answers to the questions. PILAR ¿Sí? NACHO Hola, ¿está Pilar? PILAR Sí, soy yo. NACHO Hola, soy Nacho. PILAR ¿Qué tal, Nacho? NACHO Muy bien. Oye, mira que, ¿te gustaría ir al cine esta tarde? PILAR Huy, sí, estupendo....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs