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Sociology of Leisure: Leisure and Social Stratification RLO

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Reviewed:: Sep 4, 2018 by Sociology

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Overview:: This RLO is part of “Sociology of Leisure” course. The module discusses some major features of current leisure patterns, but these activities are also central to modern life itself and thus have interests for sociologists. The RLO includes work showing how leisure activities both reflect and reproduce social divisions of class, gender, age and ethnicity, culminating in a summary of the recent large study by Bennett et al. This resource has been created within the Open Educational Resources project "Evaluating the Practice of Opening up Resources for Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences" [C-SAP OER], undertaken by the Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics based at University of Birmingham, for further information see here: http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/subject_areas/elearning/oer/default.htm. The project is part of UK-wide Open Educational Resources programme [UKOER]. Within the programme, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the Higher Education Academy are collaborating on the with the aim of enabling higher education institutions, consortia and individuals to share learning materials freely online. The programme supports universities and colleges in exploring processes and policies, intellectual property rights, cultural issues, technical requirements and data management issues.
Type of Material:: Learning Object Repository.
Recommended Uses:: Individual or team as a basis for a research project. Really only a starting point.
Technical Requirements:: Use of high speed internet. Does not work in Firefox.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: To bring together the areas of stratification and leisure studies, and critique both areas.
Target Student Population:: College General Ed and undergraduate sociology and liesure studies courses.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: This would likely require the basic introductory sociology course so the student would have a general framework for study and to apply the terms such as social stratification.

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Strengths:: Good overview of the relationship (or lack of one) between stratification and leisure.
Concerns:: Several of the links do not work which severly detracts from the material. Those that do work are rather dated (2009 is the latest).

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:: Brings out questions that a student might not think to ask - challenges the deterministic model of class and other activities.
Concerns:: No real goals are presented. Assumes knowledge that many students will not have. There are no suggestions as to how this webpage could be used by students. The webpage appears to have been last updated around 2009.

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Strengths:: On Internet Explore it works well. Moves from slide to slide easily and all functions work.
Concerns:: Many links are broken. Not working on all browsers (at least not in Firefox) which is an issue. There are no visuals to illustrate the material. No adaptation for those with learning or perceptual disabilities.

Other Issues and Comments:: This module would be better presented as part of the entire course that the description discusses. It would be difficult to use in a stand alone mode. The site does not seem to have been updated in quite some time. Latest article referenced is from 2009.
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