final entry

Age? 19

Sex? Male

What is your degree subject (both if joint)? Sociology

Does ‘Being Bad’ relate well to the other modules you are taking? Not particularly but it's to have variety

If so, how? And if not, why not? Well this semester my sociology modules have been more focused on such things as research methods so theres been quite a difference

Have you found ‘Being Bad’ too demanding, too easy, or at an appropriate level? I have the module appropriate although it took a while for me to work out using the blogs

Do you think the list of topics covered on the module was appropriate? Yes

Are there any topics not included in the module that you would like to see included? I think gambling may have made a good subject also

Do you think that the format for classes has worked well? Apart from people talking in lecture and things i think the format has been fine

What did you think of the module team? They've been very helpful

Do you think it would have been better to have had more:
Small group discussions? Not really
Discussion and debate among the class as a whole? I feel as though there was a lot of this which is fine with me
Information and talk from lecturers? I think again there was an adequate amount of this too

The approach taken in the module is interdisciplinary (drawing on perspectives from English Literature, Film Studies, Creative Writing, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Media Studies and Politics): do you think this a useful way of approaching the topics covered in the module? yes because it gives a vaster array of understanding to the subjects involved

Do you think that interdisciplinary modules are a good idea? yes i think they provide variety to a semesters modules

Do you think you have benefited from the interdisciplinary approach taken in the module? yes i do

Would you like to see more modules that cover this kind of subject matter? yes i would

Are you planning to take the follow-up module PH2004 ‘It Shouldn’t Be Allowed’ at level 2? i havent quite decided what to do for my second year modules yet.

Would you recommend ‘Being Bad’ to a friend? yes

Do you think that the blogs (web logs) were a good idea? i would prefer essay writing but its interesting to try different ways of study

What did you think of the other assessments (e.g. would it be better to have one longer assessment rather than two shorter ones?)? i found the other assessments good as well especially the creative writing

What have you learned from the module? that many people have very different opinions on what being bad is

What parts of the module have you found most useful and why? i found the smoking part the most interesting, i now watch for people smoking in films

What parts do you think were a waste of time and why? I didn't enjoy the bandits lecture i found it quite dry

Are there any other comments you wish to make regarding ‘Being Bad’? thankyou for reading

Comment on Smoking entry

http://speckwood.blogspot.com/

I think smoking in the youth today in my opinion is very much to do with peer pressure i myself smoke and although now i have many friends who dont smoke at the time when i started people all around me were smoking especially friends and to fit in i took up the habit. It's something i regret yet im not sure whether i actually want to give up because of course i carry on smoking. But i think if it wasn;'t for the peer pressure i experienced i wouldn't be smoking but of course im sure there are other factors involved in my decision, like things such as media.

comment on alcohol entry

http://beingbadwolverhampton.blogspot.com/

I agree with the blogger very much in this case in that alcohol as a drug seems to be very much accepted in his society. In recent news it has just been decided that cannabis will become once again a class b drug although commitees have given advice to the home secretary to keep it class C. She has decided to raise it to class B because the drug in recent times is a lot more stronger than it used to be, yet it is still possible to go into off licenses and bars and buy absinthe which has a rediculously high alcohol percentage, and off course alcohol is a drug that a lot more people die of each year compared to cannabis. I am personally not a fan of either drug but when you look at both i find it hard to see how cannibis is seen to be deemed as the more dangerous

comment on lying with integrity blog

http://beingbad19.blogspot.com/

I think lying is still a subject with very blurry borders of what is right and what is wrong. I personally try to be as honest as i can be, just like (i hope) most people do but just like the blogger said i'm still not really sure whether it is ok to till the odd white lie. Although i occasionally say the odd white lie i dont think i say them to make someone feel better about themselves. For example if someone asks me "Do i look good in these clothes?" I won't say yes to make them feel better about themselves, instead most of the time I actually actually say yes to make me feel better because this person will not be hassle when we are socialising. So maybe when we tell white lies we aren't actually telling them for altruistic means, but just to help ourselves, or maybe i'm just a bad person.

Scarification

Scarification is seen usually as quite an extreme form of body modification. This is when scars are made into the skin by cutting and branding. The cutting and branding can be used to make particular designs. Sometimes scarification can be very similar to tattooing as one method of scarification involves putting ink into a fresh cut so when the cut heals the ink stays permanent on the body. Scarification has also been used much like tattooing in particular tribes around the world for such things as rites of passage out of adolescence, but in the case of branding scarification has been used for marking slaves and even criminals.Above are examples of scarification used to make designs on the body.