Contemporary Society & Education (ASS020-1)

Developing Presentation Skills E-books

• Bradbury, A. (2006) Successful presentation skills. 3rd edn. London: Kogan Page.
  
• Chivers, B. and Shoolbred, M. (2007) A student's guide to presentations: making your presentation count. London: Sage.

Electronic Journals

• British Journal of Sociology
• Sociology
• Sociology of Education

Useful E-books

• Abbott, P. et. al. (2005) An introduction to sociology: feminist perspectives. 3rd edn. London: Routledge.
• Archer, L. (2003) Race, masculinity and schooling: Muslim boys and education. Maidenhead: OUP.
• Ball, S. J. (ed.) (2004) The RoutledgeFalmer reader in the sociology of education. Oxford: RoutledgeFalmer.
• Bank, B. J. et. al. (eds.) (2007) Gender and education: an encyclopaedia. Westport; Conn: Praeger.
• Cole, M. (ed.) (2006) Education, equality and human rights: issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability and social class. 2nd edn. London: Routledge.
• Evans, G. (2007) Educational failure and working class white children in Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Frosh, S. et. al. (2002) Young masculinities: understanding boys in contemporary society. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Harrison, D. (1991) The sociology of modernization and development. London: Routledge.
• Marsh, I. (ed.) (2006) Sociology: making sense of society. 3rd edn. London: Pearson Education.
• Moore, R. et. al. (eds.) (2006) Knowledge, power and educational reform: applying the sociology of Basil Bernstein. London: Routledge.
• Ritzer, G. (ed.) (2003) The Blackwell companion to major classical social theorists. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Tomlinson, S. (2005) Education in a post-welfare society. 2nd edn. Maidenhead: OUP.
• Wharton, A. S. (2005) The sociology of gender: an introduction to theory and research. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Wright, C. et. al. (2000) Race, class and gender in exclusion from school. London: Falmer.

Journal Articles

• Mac An Ghaill, M. (1996) ‘What about the boys? Schooling, class and crisis masculinity’, Sociological Review, 44(3) pp. 381-397.

Websites

• Durkheim and financial collapse (2008) BBC Radio 4, 8th October. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20081008.shtml  (Accessed: 17 August 2010).

• Elwell, Frank (1996) The sociology of Max Weber. Available at: http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm (Accessed: 17 August 2010).
• Howard Becker (2007) BBC Radio 4, 19th September. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20070919.shtml  (Accessed: 17 August 2010).
• Stillo, M. (no date) Antonio Gramsci. Available at: http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-gram.htm (Accessed: 18 August 2010).
• Weber, M. (1930) The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. University of Virginia American Studies Program. [Online]. Available at: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WEBER/header.html (Accessed: 17 August 2010).

Databases

Databases enable you to search for articles in journals (and other scholarly research materials):

Ebscohost Research Databases

Search several Ebscohost Databases simultaneously to find journal articles. (Be sure to tick the box for ‘full text’). Particularly useful Ebscohost databases for this module are:

• Academic Search Elite
• E-journals
• Education Research Complete
• SocINDEX

Sage Premier

Full text journal articles from a wide selection of sociology journals.