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How GPS Works: The Hidden Satellite Infrastructure Behind Modern Society GPS is much more than a navigation tool. Every day, satellites orbiting 20,000 kilometres above the Earth quietly synchronise financial markets, electricity grids, mobile phone networks and billions of devices. Discover how GPS works and why it has become one of the world's most important hidden infrastructures....
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What Are Payment Networks? The Hidden Infrastructure Behind Every Card Payment Buying something has never been easier. We tap a debit card to buy a coffee, transfer money through a banking app in seconds or order something online with a single click....
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Susan Leigh Star and the Hidden Infrastructure of Everyday Life When most people think about infrastructure, they picture obvious physical things: roads, bridges, railway lines, electricity pylons or perhaps broadband cables....
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Football Mythology: Have We Spent More Time Remembering England Than Watching Them Play? England have played around 165 hours of football at World Cups and European Championships since winning the World Cup in 1966....
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What is Cloud Computing? The Hidden Infrastructure Behind the Internet We no longer primarily own the computers that power our lives—we increasingly rent computing instead. This chapter explores how that transformation happened, why it matters, and what it reveals about power and hidden infrastructure in the twenty-first century....
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Britain’s Hidden Fibre Network: The Glass Infrastructure Behind the Internet This article is part of a new series which explores the hidden infrastructures that increasingly organise modern life....
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What Are Data Centres? The Hidden Factories Powering Modern Britain If someone asked you to name Britain’s most important industrial town, Slough probably wouldn’t be high on your list....
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Two ways that consumption may be related to sexuality
The question above came up in the June 2023 topics in A Level Sociology paper, culture and identity section, as a 10 mark question. Below is the Mark scheme for a top band answer only and some thoughts on how you might go about answering this question. Mark Scheme: 8–10 marks Answers in this band will show very good knowledge and understanding of two ways thatconsumption may be related to…
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Two ways popular culture may affect an individual's sense of self
This is a question which appeared on the June 2024 AQA A Level Sociology topics on sociology (paper 2), the media section. I include below an answer which should get 10/10. The trick here is to make sure you read the Item and pick up on the two main points: One = accepting mainstream culture Two = rejection or rebelling against mainstream culture. You then need to use theories and examples…
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Managerialism, Media and Meaning: Is Silicon Valley Doing More Harm Than Good?
Managerialism is the belief that all forms of work and human activity can be improved through the same techniques of management: targets, metrics, efficiency, and performance indicators. Skills, judgement, and meaning are treated as secondary to data, growth, and outcomes that can be measured. This way of thinking has its roots in neoliberalism and has spread far beyond business. Today,…
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Frictionless Capitalism and Friction-Full Politics
How Digital Convenience Is Reshaping Expectations of the State We now live in a social world where Deliveroo can deliver dinner in twelve minutes, Amazon can get a phone cable to your door by the next morning, and TikTok generates a relentless stream of novelty every few seconds. The scale of convenience that even a middle-income earner can now purchase is historically unprecedented. After…
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Police Failures, Sexual Violence, and Institutional Injustice in the UK
Sexual violence against women in public spaces has become one of the most politically charged and socially revealing issues in contemporary Britain. While governments often respond with promises of tougher policing and harsher sentencing, recent evidence suggests that the core problem lies not in a lack of laws, but in systemic failures within policing itself. A major inquiry published in 2024…
Manuel Castells and the Network Society: Living in a Global World
Over the last half-century, sociology has been forced to confront a rapidly changing social world shaped by digital technologies, globalisation, and information flows. Few sociologists have been more influential in making sense of these changes than Manuel Castells. Castells argues that we have entered a new historical phase — the Information Age — in which networks of information, capital, and…
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The Decline of Youth Clubs in the UK: Austerity, Social Breakdown and the Cost of Ignoring Young People
The decline of youth clubs in the UK is one of the austerity era’s quietest but most damaging failures. While politicians talk endlessly about “supporting young people”, the very infrastructures that once gave youth structure, belonging and adult guidance have been systematically dismantled. The UK’s political class loves to talk about “supporting young people” while simultaneously torching the…
OMG, Social Media Is Losing Its Grip — Finally
For the past two decades, social media has dominated our lives — shaping how we communicate, shop, learn, and even think. But as John Burn-Murdoch notes in his recent Financial Times column, the tide may finally be turning. The endless scroll that once hooked billions is starting to lose its hold, particularly on the younger users who once defined it. From a sociological point of view, this…
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Angela Rayner's Rise and Fall: Social Class and Politics
Angela Rayner’s story has always had a tabloid-ready air about it — the council house upbringing, the quick intelligence, the unyielding northern grit. She was, if briefly, Labour’s shining best hope for authenticity — a deputy leader who could spout policy in one sentence and plain common sense in the next. But her latest resignation has left people wondering whether the system was ever out to…
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AI Chatbots and Sociology: Dangerous Friends or Hyperreal Companions?
A recent article in The Week (5th September 2025) “AI Chatbots: Are They Dangerous Friends?”, explores the growing phenomenon of people forming emotional attachments to artificial intelligence companions such as ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s Grok. Originally launched as advanced tools for writing, learning, and creativity, chatbots have rapidly evolved into something far more intimate — virtual…
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