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...in Murji, K (ed) Investigating the Social World 1, Milton Keynes, The Open University The Level 3 module DU311 ‘Earth in Crisis: Environmental Policy in an International Context’ also explores some of these ideas through its themes of ‘International political divisions, inequalities and distributions of power,’ and ‘Differences across time and space’....

...divisions in which particular populations become associated with criminality and deviance and identified, labelled and pathologised as figures of menace, danger and threat. Understanding and challenging the ways in which this criminalisation leads to the over-policing, over-incarceration and under-protection of particular populations lie at the heart of critical...

...divisions which is an adapted extract from the Open University course D818 MA International relations part 1...Developing a research question in International Relations: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what makes a good research question reflect on and apply positivist and interpretivist approaches in international...

...division of labour. These working mothers were challenged by the need to juggle working their usual shifts, while managing new covid-related responsibilities, and also meeting the demand for increased home-based childcare and schooling. Working anti-social hours has always been part of the job on the railway and women have often had to balance the demands of shift working...

...division informs and permeates understandings of social exclusion and inclusion, an issue to which we shall return in Section 4 of this course. Wacquant highlights the kind of language used by politicians, policymakers and the media to describe problem places, and it is important that we be aware of the sources of such language, why it is being used, by whom and for what...