Site Updates: If you're a repeat visitor you'll find details of the most-recent site updates to help you locate new material.

Background: Provides some general information about the genesis, development and purpose of the site. There's also some information about Resource-Based Learning in this section.

AQuIRED: Some of the materials use a system of teaching and learning called "AQuIRED". If you want to know more about it, this is the place to look...

File Types: Some general information about the files available to download. If you're not sure whether you have the right program to use the download materials, please read this section.

Copyright: The materials may be free, but they are copyrighted. Check this section to see what this means in terms of use and distribution.

If you've got a Sociology problem you need to solve, why not try posting a message? - Someone might just be able to help.

Alternatively, if you're feeling philanthropic (excuse me), or just plain big-headed, you might like to check this out just to see if you can help.

It's a real-time system, so you can write messages directly to the Board. There's also a facility for sending and receiving private (as well as public messages). A simple registration is all that's required...

Notes: Contains a range of materials (Study Packs, Teaching Notes, etc.) that can be downloaded to your desktop and used however you see fit (lining the budgie's cage, lighting the fire, reading...). In basic terms, off-line materials.

Lesson Plans: Free lesson plans on a range of subjects.

Student Worksheets: A wide range of free worksheets for classroom use.

OHT: Over Head Transparencies to brighten-up classroom presentations.

Revision: Contains material (both for download and on-line use) related to revision. This section is undergoing serious development at the moment, so it may not be exactly (or even remotely) as described. It definitely has Revision Cards and will, at some point, have some interesting on-line material...

Keyword Files™: An in-course revision aid that helps students to create keyword glossaries.

Projects: As you might expect, a section devoted to project-related materials, including Study Packs to help you plan your personal study (both AEB and IBS) and a range of possible titles to help you get started. Some of the titles include project material (hypotheses, aims, research design and the like0 to help you develop your project.

Video: Details / reviews of Sociology videos to buy.

Software sites: Links to and reviews of sites that offer software for teachers.

Desktop: At present this section contains some free screensavers and an "exciting" range of free wallpaper. 
It also has some posters to Print'n'Post^TM

Every student and teacher needs books, but if you need them enough to buy them,  then you might as well buy them as cheaply and efficiently as possible.

This section contains reviews of a wide selection of Sociology A-level texts. Each review includes a direct link to the on-line bookshop  Amazon.co.uk, should you feel the sudden urge to exercise your credit card - or, better still, a loved-one's credit card. (If they really love you, they won't mind. Tell them it's a test).

There are too many sections to list individually, but there are reviews of all the main course texts, revision books and so forth. If it's a Sociology A-level book it's here (even the one's that aren't very good...).

If you're a publisher:

Reading this and feeling the urge to send me loads of books to review, please feel free to indulge that urge (you know you really want to...).

Reading this and not feeling any such urge because you don't think there's much in it for you or your company, take a moment to consider:

How many shops attract upwards of 400,000 individual students and teachers each year all of whom study or teach Sociology?

As the name suggests, if you're looking for links to other sociology-related Web sites, this is the place to start. You will find two main types of linked site here:

Sociology Specification Links:
The initial menu options in this section give you access to links to sites that, in my opinion, have more than a passing interest in - and relevance to - A-level Sociology  Each suggested site has an accompanying review to give you some idea about where you're going (and whether or not it's worth going there). Within each section, the links are sub-divided into A-level (sites with content aimed at this level) and General sections (sites with content that might be applicable to A-level studies). If this sounds complicated, trust me it's not...

Study Skills: This section provides links to sites offering help and information about all aspects of Study Skills.

Research: In basic terms, a large selection of "news-related" links (in the widest sense of the term). No reviews, but if you're looking for sites that might provide you with background information for projects (or material for lesson plans), you might find something here...

Reference: More-specific than the Research section, this section provides links (with a brief review) to various Encyclopaedia sites on the Web.

University Application: Links to a dedicated UCAS site....

University: A link to the Home Page and Sociology Department of every University I could find that offers Sociology in some form at degree level is included here (don't thank me, I'm a dedicated sort of guy). The main review of each University site focuses on the information / materials they provide (or not, as may be the case) for A-level students.

Publishers: This section features a range of resource materials produced by small UK A-level Sociology Publishers. The section identifies Publishers and outlines available resources. In most cases sample pages are provided so you can "try before you buy".

Courses: Details of Sociology courses / conferences.

Contacts: Basically aimed at teachers, this section contains a range of links (no reviews) to various education-type sites (Exam Boards, Ofstead, etc.). Not very exciting (unless you're seriously turned-on by the QCA), but a useful source of information / research.

This section is devoted to on-line materials (which are, it must be admitted, taking a long time to develop...) designed to help you with various parts of your A-level course. Well worth a look because the material is more interactive than the download stuff (which isn't surprising since if it wasn't interactive it wouldn't be here). There are currently four basic types of on-line material available. 

"Sociological Pathways" (one on Post-Modernity, the other on Culture and Identity) feature masses of general material.

The "Sociological Detective" focuses on particular sociological questions, theories and evidence.

Sociological Outlines, as the name suggests, focuses on providing basic outlines to various aspects of Sociology (deviance, power, etc.).

Sociology and the Internet is a short introductory section about resources on the Internet.

Puzzles: Try your hand at some simple - and not so simple - lateral thinking.

Problem-Based Learning provides situations / problems for students to explore, analyse and evaluate.