Previous Next To boost the whole school’s interest in recent political events, the SCIE Politics Club launched the Mock US Election event. Students from the entire school had voted from one of the presidential candidates last week in PSHE class, and today, on November the 3rd, the result of who was elected by SCIE staff […]
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Thanks our students Jacky 5066 and Ekat 5009 led the discussion in Mr. Richard’s Sociology class. The topic of Jacky’s discussion is SHOULD WE REJECT THE BELIEF THAT MIGHT IS RIGHT? A discussion about the belief ‘Might is right’ which introduced the historical development of this idea, from Pindar’s naturalistic principle to Social Darwinism coined by
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Adam John Privitera We are excited to have Adam John Privitera to run a session about data analysis with our teacher Mr. Greg’s Oxbridge Psychology class. Adam is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He conducts research in the areas of neuroscience and cognitive psychology with a
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Previous Next The annual Mental Health Day, held by SCIE Red Cross made October 15tha special day with warmth and hope- when people gather and share their inner thoughts and happiness through SCIE Tree Hole and Thanksgiving Wall, as well as learning professional knowledge on certain mental diseases. Classrooms were already well-arranged when students arrived.
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Previous Next This Wednesday, we had our first House competition of this semester – tug of war – and also the first official competition at our new campus. Unlike past semesters, it was a bright and sunny day, a great time for tug-of-war. The new field and the increased number of participants definitely brought more
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Eddy Zou Class of 2019 BSc economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science Eddy won the ONS (Office for National Statistics, UK) thesis competition in May 2020. His paper was published on the ONS website. interview SCIE Interviewer: We learned that you just published an academic paper on the official website of ONS.
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Introduction: Celinca is an A1 student of SCIE. She spent five vacations which lasted for two and a half years completing a research project on China’s targeted industrial poverty alleviation. In May 2020, the Seoul International Conference invited Celinca to participate in the “Business, Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities” academic seminar. As the only high
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During the time of coronavirus, students of SCIE are all staying at home for the purpose of quarantine. However, members of the Politics ECA have successfully reunited through internet technology, and have gone through a wonderful discussion about the Super Tuesday event during the ongoing presidential election in the United States. Our ECA activity was
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Food is a basic necessity to all humans. Long ago when there was no pans, ovens or germicides, looking for something edible in nature was a challenge. Our ancestors managed to survive with experience, then they came up with various ideas to turn raw meat of herbs into food, such as putting them over fire.
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It has been two months since the outbreak of the COVID-19 and the outbreak has reshaped the world to a great extent. On the previous PSHE session on Zoom, Tom and Vivian organized a discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on the entire world as well as ourpersonal lives. In the first part of the
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My essay is on the recent development of China’s mental health care system and how it can help address this question. Though, I actually parried the question raised by the prompt, and I did not in the end emphasise too much that more care should be devoted to the socially vulnerable. Rather, I intended to underscore the complexity and ambiguity in any employment of these two notions — “socially vulnerable” and “responsibility” — in the concrete working of society. Through my study I discovered that the train of legislative efforts made in the 1980s to 2000s to legally recognise, to enhance public knowledge of, and to erect new asylums for, “the mentally ill,” in fact coincided spatiotemporally with government efforts in putting new agendas of foreign policies and city development to work. Thus, the recent development of China’s mental health care, from scratch to full maturity, is not solely the consequence of “humanitarian effort,” but also of some other ulterior motives. In my conclusion, I hinted that any answer to this question would entail empirical investigation into the concrete working of social institutions, and depending on the nature of this “socially vulnerable” group, claims of “responsibility” may be leveraged as veils for other purposes.
Before starting my research I did not by then have a well-formed hypothesis, but I did have Michel Foucault’s intriguing study on madness in mind. Due to the rather peculiar nature of the object of my study, I was not able to apply the sociological theories (Marxism, Functionalism, e.g.) I learnt in class to my own research. I must thank my sociology teacher for his encouragement and provision of many textbook resources and classical studies done in the field of mental health care. In addition to that, he prepared a statement of the school for my application to conduct short interviews at a local mental health hospital — this application, however, though quite expectedly, sank into oblivion — without his help this project would be very difficult.
I made a documentary “The Definition” about the situation of elderly in Shenzhen to enter this competition. As I have some previous knowledge in filmmaking, learning from TBU studio, I though it would be meaningful if I combined my filmmaking skills with sociology knowledge. In the meanwhile, after learning the very first chapter of sociology, The Family, I found out that the situation of elderly in the UK is different from that of elderly in Shenzhen. For instance, elderly have the responsibility taking care of their grandchildren and dance in the park for entertainment is distinctive in China. Therefore, I decided to make a documentary to record the interesting culture.
I learnt a lot during the preparation for the competition. I learned a lot about how to carry out an individual primary research when I was filming “The Definition”, which helps a lot in my current sociology study. Also, I understood sociology theories better. For instance, postmodernism used to be only a vague theoretical perspective for me, yet it amazed me knowing that elderly people participate actively in public activities can be considered as view of postmodernism.
Most importantly, I realized filmmaking can make some impacts on people, portraying problems of society. Experience of BSA opened my eyes and led me rethink about my future major in college. I want use my skills and knowledge to help more people, so I will probably try a major with humanity and filmmaking combined instead of pursuing the dream of being an artist alone.
Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, “The Definition” eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it’s not so perfect. I’ll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video：https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
