Resource - Perspectives and Social Policy Handout: A summary of the views of each perspective about the relationship between sociology and social policy.
I use Webb et al text book.
Resource - Suicide: Presentation and Bits of activities on suicide
Resource - Is Sociology a Science?: This is a Powerpoint - a fairly lengthy one, I'm afraid, on the debates surrounding Sociology as a Science. Stuff on value freedom, falsification etc..
Resource - OCR positivism Vs Interpretivsm: This is a power point I used with AS sociology class on OCR specification. Maybe useful for other exam boards too.
Resource - OCR Positivism vs Interpretivism table: I used this resource with an AS group and got them to complete this table alongside me going through the power point.
Resource - AS / A2 Theory & Methods Overview: A basic PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate the link between Theory and Methods (Works well as a handout too). Helps students get a grasp of Structure vs. Action and Positivism vs. Interpretivism.
Resource - Durkheim has Tourette's: A slightly more entertaining way to introduce/revise Postivism
Ideas - My idea is to: when teaching positivism versus interpretivism or is sociology a science show the first 10 mins or so of dead poet society up to just after when he gets them to rip the pages out of the books.then do