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How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...works over time: we assume the notional value of a portion of fish and chips, for example, to be fixed over time, and then consider how much people paid for it at a particular time using the currency of the time. We can then convert between a price of £X (1980 pounds) per portion of fish chips in 1980 and £Y (2015 pounds) per portion of fish and chips in 2015 using a...
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The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...working to understand the relationship between crowds and collective identity. Modern crowd research is considered to have started with French polymath and political conservative Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: Study of the Popular Mind (1895). Le Bon problematised what we today would see as part of the popular democratic process; he views the crowd not so much as mindless...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...working within the male-dominated world of rock. Firstly, as Whiteley has commented, as frontwomen of rock bands, female singers are ‘the focus of audience attention not simply for what they sing, but for how they look’ (Whiteley, 2000, p. 52). With her untamed hair and acne-scarred skin, many commentators have noted that Joplin was, as Whitley expresses it,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...working day (the so-called pausa caffè) and have a chat with friends and colleagues. Customers often share opinions on a variety of subjects ranging from politics and football, to work, gossip, cinema and fashion. The Italian bar is probably at its busiest first thing in the morning, when people grab a coffee and a cornetto (‘croissant’) at the counter. It is busy...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...work. Often we afford them only a passing glance. Most of us also make them ourselves: pictures of our family, loved ones, friends, events, interests. Few of us, however, look closely and carefully at photographs as visual evidence, yet they often illustrate and support our ideas about society. It follows, then, that in order to be effective as social scientists, we need...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...working. They marched in procession into Manchester, where they forced all the other Manufacturers to join them. It is the horrid system of agitation pursued by several Members, which is responsible for this serious agitation. They might be prosecuted if it could be brought home to them. It is proposed to send a Battalion of the Guards tonight, by rail, to Manchester....
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Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...works as a language of inter-ethnic communication, of wider communication and as a lingua franca. It is used in all domains: education, media and telecommunication, urban hip-hop, trading and in church. The status of English English gained its status as the language for government officials and aristocrats during the colonial period. It was associated with a higher social...
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What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?
Nature & Environment

What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?

...work, travel, take holidays, socialise etc) which are slow to change, due to complex cultural or technological barriers. Others point to the need for ‘opportunities’ to be green. We can want to change as much as we like, but unless there is, say, decent public transport, we’ll keep our car. Without recycling provision by the state, we can’t recycle. [Southampton...
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