One Day In September

General journalism this, a good documentary on the 1972 Olympics, Israel v Palestine:

Watch it here!

Iran.

It looks like the next step towards all-out global destruction will be a war with Iran.  I like to keep myself informed about exactly what sort of innocent civilians we will be blowing up next and so I have been watching the following documentaries.  If you would like to know more about Iran before some kind of nuclear apocalypse consumes us all then I suggest you watch them too!

This one is three hours long but that's because it's an entire three episode series collected into one video!  Watch it in instalments whilst eating crisps, like I did! Iran and the West BBC documentary

Rageh Omar Inside Iran  

Iran is not the problem

Satanic Panic! Why People Believe Weird Things!

Moral Panics are very exciting, aren't they?  You need to know about them for AS and A2 so I've put other stuff on the blog in the past but here's some more, specifically relating to the 'satanic panic' that occurred in the US and UK in the 80's and 90's.  Below are some links to articles as well as a book and a video!  The book 'Why people believe weird things' is worth reading anyway, hence my decision to put a 'general journalism' tag on this post.  Enjoy!


A full stop to the Satanic panic

A BBC documentary reminds us how irrational were the fears of ritual abuse in the 80s and 90s. Yet the view that parents can't be trusted lives on.


When Satan came to town

Five families in Rochdale were wrongly separated
In 1990 the Devil came to Rochdale. 


Lost years of 'satanic panic' children

In 1990, families on a council estate in north Manchester woke up to every parent's worst nightmare. With no warning, police and social workers had come to take their children. 

Wiki on Satanic ritual abuse

The 'Martensville Nightmare' Ritual Abuse case

Wiki on Moral Panics

Free E-Book!   Michael Shermer - Why People Believe Weird Things.  I'm reading this at the moment, chapters on satanic panic and other stuff, very good.

Too lazy/stupid to read his book?  Why am I not surprised? Okay, pillock, watch the video instead.

Skeptic Magazine is very interesting, edited by Shermer.

Documentaries 2

Some more documentaries, not related to sociology syllabus but for general interest reasons I will put them here.

In this World  A harrowing but important story about the plight of refugees.

Dispatches - Meeting the Taliban

Dispatches - Children of Gaza

North Korean Labor Camps in Siberia

David Icke, The Lizards and The Jews

Documentaries

Some related to sociology syllabus, most are just for general interest reasons, something to watch if you have the time...










































The Weather Underground

9/11 and aftermath  Nine Magnum photographers reflect on how they covered 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Guantanamo.


more here...

and this is a list of films, you'll need to pick some and see if you can find them online, I'm a little busy right now.

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Nice shades, pillock.

This is worth watching for general knowledge reasons, it's more psychology than sociology but I feel obliged to give you an all-round education so you have a slightly better chance of not spending the rest of your lives living in a skip and eating cold pilchards from a tin whilst wiping the tears from your eyes with a pair of soiled pants you stole from a tramp.

Watch it here!

Freakonomics - Crack Dealers and Abortions

Inside Job - Documentary - How the Financial Crisis happened.

Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary explains how the financial industry destroyed the world and got away with it.  Not really relevant to the sociology course but very interesting and useful nonetheless.
Watch it here!

Muppet Movies are communist plots! FOX FACT!

Are you frightened of Muppets?  These people are...

Read all about it.

Then watch the video...

Another typical Fox News story.

Why you should read journalism...

This is just to make it easier for you to find interesting things to read.  I know how busy you are, scratching your nether regions and trying to work out what you had for dinner last night by sniffing your own emissions.  This bloke has gone to the trouble of collecting about 100 interesting pieces of journalism from 2010.  I salute him!

Have a look!  There's all sorts of stuff.  Drugs, Jesus, violence, all your favourite things!

"Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z" Course

As you know, I am very much 'down with tha kidz' and I have been referred to as a 'playa' by such people as Sir Mixalot and my Mother.  In my relentless attempt to remain 'street' and 'urban' I have decided to post a link to this sociology course to remind you that sociology is everywhere and it's not just some boring subject you're studying at school to delay your inevitable entry into the terrifying world of work.  Keep it real, homeyz!

Jay Z is sociological!

Media - Films and Documentaries to watch

Starsuckers

Weapons of mass deception

Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

Audio - Noam Chomsky - Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind


2Pac Sociology Lesson


Press ownership and control...

Independent Media In A Time Of War

Part 1 of 3



These three are particulary concerned with political manipulation by the media, clips are from youtube but why not try and watch the whole film, it's unlikely to kill you.

Wag The Dog

Bob Roberts

Primary Colors


Also, The Corporation is worth watching, as is No Logo and The Century of the Self - Episode 4 - Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

Various Bits and Pieces that might be of interest/use.

I'm just using this post as a dumping ground for anything I find that interests me, the stuff here is not necessarily useful for your exams.  On the other hand, it may be.

Stanford Prison Experiment:

Prison Exp

End of the World Cult

Cult

Adam Curtis makes interesting documentaries

His films etc

Pdf on Media and Crime

Media and Crime

Chris Atkins made 'Starsuckers'. He also made this:

Taking Liberties