Reading Tasks
Education
Miseducation: Inequality, education and the working class by Diane Reay
The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter
Families and Households
Toxic childhood: How the world is damaging our children and what we can do about it by Sue Palmer
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Available in the LRC.
Wild Swan by Jung Chan
The Story of Childhood: Growing Up in Modern Britain by Libby Brooks
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon. Available in the LRC.
Fawcett Society report – Parents, Work and Care: Striking the Balance here
Theory and Methods
Theorising Patriarchy by Sylvia Walby
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
Available in the LRC.
We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Available in the LRC.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman Available in the LRC.
General sociology book recommendations
1984 by George Orwell. Available in the LRC.
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel Available in the LRC.
Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class by Owen Jones Available in the LRC.
The Establishment: And how they get away with it by Owen Jones Available in the LRC.
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch. Available in the LRC.
Culture and Everyday Life by Andy Bennett
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Professor Shoshana Zuboff Available in the LRC.
Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass by Darren McGarvey Available in the LRC.
The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry. Available in the LRC.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Available in the LRC.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez. Available in the LRC.
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge. Available in the LRC.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. Available in the LRC.
Any quality source of news, such as the BBC, the Guardian or the Times.
Read the Sociology Review – found in the library and on My Sandstorm.
Listening Tasks
Watching Tasks
Families and Households
TED talk: Tan Lee – My immigration story.
TED talk: Hans Rosling
East is East
Brick Lane
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Revolutionary Road
Sleeping with the Enemy
Education
Dangerous Minds
A Very British School, documentary about Harrow
The History Boys
Educating Essex/Yorkshire
Theory and Methods
Child of Our Time, BBC
Secret Life of 5 Year Olds
On the Basis of Sex
A Bug’s Life (Marxism)
Beliefs in Society
My Scientology Movie, Louis Theroux
The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux
Amish: a secret life
Religulous
Fahrenheit 9/11
Witness
Inherit the Wind
Crime and Deviance
Chernobyl – Sky Atlantic
McMafia – BBC TV series
TED talk: Bryan Stevenson – We need to talk about injustice.
TED talk: Noy Thrupkaew – Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works.
BBC documentary – One Night in Bhopal
Crime and Deviance
Dirty Money
Monster
Erin Brockovich
Hotel Rwanda
City of God
The Green Mile
This Is England
Lord of War
The Killing Fields
Bowling for Columbine
General sociology recommendations
Useful TV series include: Panorama, Cutting Edge, Dispatches, Louis Theroux, Stacey Dooley documentaries
TED talks available on a range of sociological topics
Films: Billy Elliot, The Full Monty, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Brokeback Mountain, 12 Years a Slave, Made in Dagenham, The Truman Show, If Beale Street Could Talk, Selma, V for Vendetta, I, Daniel Blake, American Beauty, Freedom Writers, Wonder, Pride
Trips & Visits
V&A Museum of Childhood
Visit the V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
Museum of London
Museum of London: Votes for Women virtual exhibition
Women of the World
Women of the World (WOW) festival at the Southbank Centre.