Case Studies
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
If you go and see your doctor or a therapist, you'll become a 'case' to them. They'll want to know a lot more about you. Similarly, sociological case…
Participant Observation
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
Some research questions can only really be studied by sociologists getting out of their offices and interacting directly with the people they want to…
Self Report Methods: Interviews and Questionnaires
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
How do school students negotiate the pressures to perform well academically alongside the pressure to popular and cool? Carolyn Jackson combined…
Ainsworth: The Strange Situation
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
While John Bowlby focussed on the consequences of a lack of attachment, Mary Ainsworth took a step back and looked at the nature of attachment and…
Bowlby: Attachment & Maternal Deprivation
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
In the 1930s a young psychiatrist noticed how many of the disturbed children he saw had been separated from their parents in early life. This was…
Insomnia: Causes and Treatments
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Insomnia', says one of the respondents we interviewed, 'can be as debilitating as a physical injury'. This film looks at the causes of insomnia, the…
Labelling Theory
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control. Labelling theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and…
Mind-Mindedness and Attachment Security
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Psychologists have long been aware that attachment security may be transmitted from one generation to the next. But how does this happen? A new idea…
Sleep, Memory & Learning
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
While sleep rests and repairs the brain, it continues to be active and sleep psychologists believe one of the things it's doing is helping to…
Space, Place & Crime
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Spatial criminology asks whether it's possible to reduce crime by changing social spaces. This film begins with Zimbardo's influential abandoned cars…
Strain Theory
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Merton was one of the first sociologists to look at the relationship between culture and crime. This film provides a clear introduction to Merton's…
The Structure of Sleep
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Until relatively recently what happens while we sleep was a mystery. But that changed with the advent of polysomnography, the electrical recording of…
Why Do We Sleep?
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
We spend about a third of our lives asleep. But why do we need to sleep? Filmed at a University Sleep Lab, this short film demonstrates the effects…
Case Study Research
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
This film uses the well-known case of 'Genie', a girl kept in solitary confinement from infancy until she was 13, to illustrate the use of case…
Correlations
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Correlations are relationships and this film begins by illustrating how the strength and direction of those relationships is measured. It then uses…
