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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...Social Sciences, we have put together collective obituaries to remember their careers supporting learners and staff of The Open University...[The OU's Berrill Building] Society Matters aims to help students of The Open University, particularly those in Social Sciences, to make connections between their studies and the wider world. It can be useful to reflect on who has...
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...social and historical context; to see what different methods are used by psychologists to investigate human behaviour; and to learn about the different perspectives that exist within psychology. It will give you a sense of the historical locations of the people, the cultural influences on their thinking and how they are grouped together in terms of direct contact with and...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...social sciences...Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: compare and contrast two different approaches to studying juvenile delinquency understand psychological approaches to studying juvenile delinquency such as Eysenck’s personality theory and the Cambridge Study of Delinquent...
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,...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...social perceptions play, in particular, the social perceptions of other people’s behaviour. The fear of missing out Fear provides a collective background state that is shared by many people, meaning they all respond to varying degrees to their sense of foreboding, anxiety, and physiological state. One particular type of fear that also seems to be highly relevant here is...
Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...social activities and organisations, encouraging friendships and fun. It looks at PLUS from the view of the children, the carers and the families. This material forms part of The Open University course KE312 Working together for children... Growing up with Disability A short introduction to this album. The Voluntary Organisation PLUS An introduction to the voluntary...
Some thoughts on Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Some thoughts on Brexit

...social problems are due to excessive influx of foreigners who take our jobs and use up scarce resources such as health and housing. I take a different view. Since 2010 our finance minister (Osborne until recently) has returned to the 1930’s and instituted an economic policy regime of “austerity”. The Keynesian notion of boosting aggregate demand (and incomes and...
Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style
History & The Arts

Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style

...socialism proved a successful mix at the ballot box. So successful, in fact, that it managed to cost the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, his seat in Parliament. The Northern Echo of July 16th, 1895, reports: [Geoffrey Drage, MP] Geoffrey Drage in the year he entered parliament The loss of Sir William Harcourt at Derby will not be an unmixed...