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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...social researchers. It is important to identify the key features of a qualitative approach. The points in the following video give you an initial idea of the three distinctive features of qualitative research. If you are finding the text in the video too small to read, you can see the full text in the video transcript. 1. It tends to adopt an exploratory orientation in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...social regulation and processes of discipline. In Chapter 4 for example, in the early nineteenth century new kinds of institutions, the asylum, the workhouse, as well as the prison, were designed and built to promote social stability when traditional ideas and practices appeared outmoded. Innovations in prison design, such as Bentham's panopticon, were to instil values of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...social care workers. The course has been developed from the findings of Growing Older – Planning Ahead, an independent research project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (NIHR129491). Interested in taking your learning further? You might find it helpful to explore the Open University’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...social values strongly influence how an organisation understands and pursues value. While all organisation are, at least ostensibly, focused on creating and sustaining value, that does not mean their values are necessarily always identical. On the one hand, different organisations will increasingly share an emphasis on serving their customers – whether they are buying...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...Social Sciences who has spent most of his academic career at the Open University. And he has always had a strong interest in political geography, but he has also been actively involved in the field of environmental politics and policy making as a politician, government advisor and environmental activist. He was a member of the first Committee on Radioactive Waste...
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Audio 10 mins
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...social rank and marital status. One of the unique features of African textured hair is its ability to be sculpted and moulded into various shapes and forms hence, while hair may play a significant role in the lives of people of all racialised groups, for people of African descent, this role is amplified due to the unique nature and texture of *Black hair. Since antiquity,...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...social scientists emphasise one kind of explanation rather than another. Feminism is a set of theories which in different ways analyse and explain gender divisions and inequalities. It is also a social movement which advocates and works for equal opportunities for men and women. Feminism originated in the late eighteenth century. During the latter part of the twentieth...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...social constructivists (all geographical knowledge is constructed) social realists (some objective ‘facts’ about the world exist and some knowledge is constructed). Positivists argue for a ‘traditional’ content-driven, socially conservative curriculum in which knowledge is fixed and the objective is to induct the learner into the dominant knowledge traditions...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs