Monday, 26 November 2007

John Beck/Mary Earl

Key issues in Secondary education

A chapter by Madeleine about the intersection of class, race and gender. Useful for supervisions?

Bernstein obituary


Very helpful obituary of Bernstein that goes over his main contributions, works, approaches, critics etc. Positions it well in the history - NB read some Gramsci

Wednesday, 21 November 2007

In fact - all the chapters here are pretty helpful for basic sociology, which to my shame I seem to need.

Durkheim

brief description here of Durkheim's works. useful bits include explanations of social facts, collective representations, organics and mechanical solidarity and sacred/profane