WATCH
Download the sociology show podcast.
Includes lots of interviews with famous sociologists.
READ
Buy a newspaper and complete a content analysis.
A content analysis involves investigating the number of times something appears in a form of media. For example;
You could explore the number of times gender is stereotyped in the news.
Coverage of male and female sport.
The backgrounds of journalists who write in the news.
Any other theme in relation to class, age, gender or ethnicity.
LISTEN
The Infinite Monkey Cage Podcast
deals with scientific questions but also thinks about how society and culture are shaped by science.
There are also moral issues raised. There are lots of episodes.
Feel free to choose ones that sound of interest to you.
DO
Write a script for your own sociological podcast.
Choose a sociological idea or theme and write a script which creates a discussion around the topic.
You could have people phoning into your podcast/special guests etc giving views on your topic. Make it a debate.
Please keep/send to me and if they are good we could use them at the start of the year.