Jasmine Holmes

I am currently a lecturer at the city of Wolverhampton college where I teach sociology and Criminology as well as being a learning innovator specialising in new and innovative teaching techniques. As a disabled person I have been struggling with being able to stay up to date with sociological work as well as my 9-5 job, I intend to use this platform to ensure I do not neglect nurturing my sociological interests. My interest lies in the problems created by modernity with reference to alienation and more recently I specialise in socio-sexology. As I am a learning innovator, I currently have time invested in education and researching teaching pedagogies and this may be a thread throughout my writing.

Do we truly live in a “paranoid parenting” era? An Exploration into Furedi’s (2002, 2008) claim that parenting culture is marked by a sense of paranoia around risk and child safety.

Abstract: A discussion into how parenting is fixated in a new era of Paranoia and why this may be the case. I will not only use Furedi’s work into paranoid parenting, but it will also explore other key scholars in this area such as Anneke Meyer 2007, Helene Guldberg 2009 and Jones Phil 2009. By … Read more