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Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...analysis. The stock of this repository has been built up over time, having been deposited by previous generations and added to over time. It is not simply ‘what we think today’, but has a history. One thing we can do, then, is to look for the ‘traces’ of older ideas, to see how they are recirculated and kept alive across decades and even centuries. For example,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...analysis give us the full picture of gender in sport? Read the journal article ‘Female athletes, women’s sport, and the sport media commercial complex: have we really “come a long way, baby”?’ by Janet Fink. As you read, answer the following questions: a.What is the purpose of this article? b.What are the key points arising from the article? c.What is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why do England fail in international football competitions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do England fail in international football competitions?

...analysis of the factors in English football which have impeded success at the international level. And its author, who now joins me, is Anthony King, who’s Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. [Supporters of England] On their way to more disappointment? I suppose we’ve got to go on being masochistic for a moment, I’ve got to ask you really, for the...
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Article 5 mins
Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...analysis to explore these locations in the present. By working through these articles you will discover that some interdependencies lead to uneven development and explore how this uneven development has both persisted and changed over time. When revisiting the study areas in 2015, we found that many of the key issues that were being debated 30 years ago - such as...
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Article 5 mins
Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...a post-exploitative affective order, we can give up our complicit role as killers and experience the deeper joy of peaceful coexistence with our fellow earthlings. This article originally appeared on DISCOVER SOCIETY under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence Further reading: Our Children and Other Animals (2014) by By Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart In-depth analysis: Meat Culture (2016)...
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Article 5 mins
Second-order differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Second-order differential equations

...analysis. If you are interested in statistics, you might like to try the free OpenLearn courses Modelling and estimation, Medical statistics and Bayesian statistics...Second-order differential equations: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...analysis of only small remnants of a person, such as teeth or fragments of bone, can be used to confirm who a victim was. It is not so easy to dispose of a body, and that evidence is left behind even when a corpse is subject to fire or acid. [CGI of double helix DNA] DNA profiling (sometimes called DNA fingerprinting) can be used to establish the identity of a suspect....
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Article 10 mins
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...analysis focused on Phase 4 of the task in which participants were asked to classify – as quickly and accurately as possible – specific words as having positive or negative meanings (e.g. ‘attractive’ or ‘disgusting’), having just been exposed to a photograph of either a white or a black male face. Take a look at the following figure which represents some of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs