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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...social production, shaped by power dynamics. So how do we reconcile such perspectivism with a continuing search for robust knowledge, whether ‘at home’ or ‘abroad’ – knowledge that is sorely needed in the current climate? As a sociologist researching families and relationships, my primary approach has involved qualitative methods ever since I discovered how much...
Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...social outcomes of home education. In particular, employment is an area of society that we know very little about when it comes to the home education community. Members of this community might be familiar with questions received by those who don’t home educate, regarding whether this mode of education adequately prepares young people for participating in society, with...
Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...works, promoted by the poststructuralists of the 1980s. Social reality is a mirage, constructed in language and other symbols, and bound together by relations of power. Once you become aware of this, you can work to deconstruct it, and to promote a different configuration of values and beliefs for mainstream society. You can shift the meaning of words and, through this,...
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...social mission. We believe that the main barriers to starting education are access, lack of confidence and cost. This is why the Open University works to remove these barriers: We build on formats and platforms that are available offline and online. This improves our discoverability and access. We eliminate cost by planning the delivery of free learning through sound and...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...social/political dimensions. The challenge for public health systems is to formulate effective responses on all three fronts; and to measure effectiveness, we need metrics. Demonstrating the efficacy of biomedical interventions is relatively straightforward. Likewise, we can measure the effectiveness of interpersonal interventions to improve knowledge and change...
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...social conditions of the ordinary working person. Although Deller is not referencing it directly, it also parallels a movement from the USA in the 1930s, which drew on European surrealist techniques that were current at the time and applied them to social commentary and critique (Fort, 1982). A technique that was favoured by artists in this earlier social surrealist...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...work in the home should be divided. You will also investigate the diversity of families. We will see how any discussion of the division of labour has to recognise that families differ in terms of shape and size...In this free course, Understanding society: families, you will explore how different families have different ideas about how work in the home should be divided....
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...work of Stuart Hall. His first article The Great Moving Right Show, written before Thatcher came to power and while Hall was still at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, was a prescient analysis of the ‘swing to the right’ that was taking place in British society. In this article, Hall outlined the way in which Thatcher and the radical right had put together...