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Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...systems...Social science and participation: Differences in participation - Social scientific research on participation is often concerned with differential patterns of participation – with describing who does and who doesn’t participate, and why, and suggesting appropriate measures to enhance participation in general, or among particular groups. These differential...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...system, and you may have come across reports of court cases, crime statistics, the behaviour of judges or the sentencing of a convicted criminal in the news, books or newspapers, television programmes or films. Law is actually all around us; it is wide-ranging and governs all aspects of our lives. The law underpins simple day-to-day transactions from buying a bus ticket...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...system, one that we share with other animals and with very young children. In contrast, reason is regarded as separating humans from other animals, and adults from infants. How can we assess this picture? We will begin by trying to get clear about what an emotion is. As we will soon discover, this question is highly controversial...Emotion: An introductory picture: 2.1...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...Thinking about your opinions - In the first activity you are going to read two short extracts and examine your opinions on the subject of the texts. Activity 1 Task 1 Read Extracts 1 and 2 and consider to what extent you agree or disagree with the view of the authors. Extract 1 I have been teaching full time for over thirty years. During that span of time, one sees many,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...systems cannot cope. And in this way, drones can play a role. And this role will be actually investigated within this project. KATERINA KASIMATI: I would like to highlight why developing new business ideas from drones is a game changer. First of all, drones redefine how industries operate, we're optimising processes, and of course, making these processes more efficient...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
History & The Arts

Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic

...in the value of hard work into our everyday ethic. ...How does religion fit with the world of business? Perhaps more closely than you think. The sociologist and economist Max Weber argued that after the Reformation one form of Christian Protestantism, Calvinism, encouraged a different attitude to work, with far-reaching effects. Delve deeper into some of the themes raised...
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Video 5 mins
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...think about the amount of work that would be involved in a study like this. You would have to take a large group of people and measure each of these factors every day of the year. You would then need to assess the relative contributions of each factor in the equation to feeling a bit low. An equation might look good, but any psychologist doing research will tell you that...
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Article 5 mins
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...thinking about the ways new technologies and global insecurities posed potential environmental, social and economic injustices on an international scale. Harding’s question requires criminologists to think outside nation-state and strict legalistic boundaries and to pursue what has been referred to as a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008). This...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs