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SSFS Blog launched
 
SSFS Blog launched

SSFS Blog launched

The Social Science for Schools blog is linked to the resources provided for Teachers and Students on the ESRC Society Today website.

Give us all absolute freedom: chaos or order?

Turn on the TV and you’ll hear it. Pop on your favourite radio station and its there too. In fact it’s everywhere you look. The banks have collapsed. The UK is in recession. Those at the top wanted too much money at the expense of the UK population. But is this view accurate? It seems quite [...]

Discover economics

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2009, The Centre for economic learning and Social Evolution in collaboration with University College London are holding an event entitled; ‘Discover Economics’. This event is predominantly aimed at Mathematics and Economics Students, years 10 – 13. If you have a passion for this highly useful subject and woud [...]

The cost of renting forcing you to live with your ‘rents?

As the economy is all over the news I thought it about time to takle the issue once again. Is the credit cruch going to stop you leaving home? An part of an article called The ‘poverty penalty’ of leaving home by Pamela Readhead. Striking out at Britain’s credit crisis last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury, [...]

Is America still the world’s policeman?

02 November 2009

Since the invasion of Iraq, US foreign policy has been subject to much criticism. During the Cold War American hegemony was largely accepted by the West, whilst in the 1990s America was perceived to be acting as a force for good in the world, leading campaigns of humanitarian intervention. The Iraqi debacle has led to [...]

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Undergoing Maintenance

06 May 2009

Welcome to the Our Society Today blog. We are currently undergoing maintenance and upgrade work, please come back again soon!

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What do card tricks have to do with Psychology?

02 April 2009

What do card tricks have to do with Psychology? – April 2nd, 2009 Our Society Today, Psychology Take a look at the video, by Professor David and while you watch think: what has Psychology got to do with this? Then scroll down to find out what you are really seeing. Here the colour changing card trick shows an odd [...]

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Sisters and Brothers

13 March 2009

Pointless arguing over who was going to get the better looking Barbie doll, building a protection fort in my back garden and planning to ‘run away from home’ for no apparent reason. These are some of the bizarre and fond memories I can think of experiencing with my siblings. Like many people, I have found [...]

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Has knife/gun crime increased?

13 March 2009

Knife and gun crime is in the news almost every day but has it really increased? – If so why? My views on this topic are that; these sorts of crimes haven’t increased as much as people would think. I think the reason people may think they have increased is because it is in the news [...]

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Violence: what it means to young people

09 March 2009

“…I know we’re just kids but we live in this world too. And if we don’t say anything about it, who will?” (Girl, aged 10) Out of the mouths of babes, the saying goes. So why does society not listen to those most at risk of and affected by the rising level of violence among [...]

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