Programme title/sub-title: MANAGEMENT OF RISK IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Description: Almost every decision a person makes involves some weighing up of the odds of success or failure and risk has become a popular area of sociological debate. Laurie Taylor talks to some delegates at the British Sociology Association's conference in York to find out what aspects of risk they've been discussing. Dr Iain Wilkinson, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent is concerned about people's experience and response to their knowledge of risk, crisis and disaster. His current research can be referred to as a sociology of suffering; it explores how individuals and societies cope under the effort to make the lived reality of human suffering productive for thought and action and the ways in which the problem of suffering amounts to a force of cultural innovation and social change. The orthodox view that marriage acts as a protection against risk has significantly changed since the post-war era. Both men and women now expect the woman in a marriage to do some paid work. This challenges the traditional model of marriage where the man is the sole breadwinner and some economists believe that it also makes women more likely to exit form marriage and make people more likely to behave in an individualistic and selfish way. In her book The End of Marriage: Individualism and Intimate Relations Professor Jane Lewis, from the London School of Economics, questioned the idea that individualism is necessarily selfish and destructive. Her current research suggests that financial independence is what allows women to take the risk of entering a relationship. Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Jane Lewis about her study which found that there was no perception that either cohabitation or marriage was an inherently riskier enterprise than the other. The media are most interested in grabbing a mundane idea and substantiating it with scientific authority. Scientific evidence lends authority to an idea even though disagreements within the scientific community on the validity of the evidence are never highlighted by the media. David Denney is professor of Social and Public Policy at Royal Holloway, University of London and the author of a forthcoming book called Risk and Society. Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Denney to discuss how perception of risk erodes the public's trust in professionals such as doctors and what it means to live in a risk society. Additional information: Dr Iain Wilkinson Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent and Convenor of British Sociological Association Risk & Society Study Group Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life Publisher: London: Routledge (2006 forthcoming) Suffering: A Sociological Introduction Publisher: Polity Press ISBN: 0745631975 Anxiety in a Risk Society Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Lt ISBN: 0415226805 Paper: The Problem of Social Suffering: The Challenge to Social Science Health Sociology Review Vol. 13(2): 1-15 Book Chapters: Entries on 'Ulrich Beck', 'Risk' and 'Reflexivity' in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H. P. Muller (eds) Routledge (2005 forthcoming) The Psychology of Risk in Beyond the Risk Society: Critical Reflections on Risk and Human Security G. Mythen, and S. Walklate Open University press/Mcgraw Hill (2005 forthcoming) Professor Jane Lewis Professor of Social Policy, Social Policy Department, London School of Economics and Political Science The End of Marriage?: Individualism and Intimate Relations Publisher: Edward Elgar ISBN: 1843761734 Professor David Denney Professor of Social and Public Policy at Royal Holloway, University of London Risk and Society Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd ISBN: 076194740X (August 2005)

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: SINGLE WOMEN

Description: Jan MacVarish's latest paper, Understanding the 'Popularity' of Living Alone, contains the results of her 10 years' study of single women. The research looked at the representation and identity of single women: are they independent, responsible and strong social pioneers who are at the vanguard of gender change? Or do they really live up to the Bridget Jones stereotype of having unchanged bed sheets, an empty fridge and a morbid pre-occupation with dying alone, undiscovered and devoured by pet Alsatians? Laurie Taylor speaks to Jan MacVarish, researcher at the School of Sociology, University of Kent, about what she suggests is a powerful cultural prejudice that is willing the single woman into happiness alone and the disjunction between that and the way they are actually living their lives.

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: THE FAMILY + INEQUALITY

Description: THE FAMILY In 1960 research was published on social change and kinship patterns in Swansea which showed how extended family networks operate. Forty years on, a group of social scientists decided to replicate the 1960 survey and track the changes that have taken place in that time. Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Nickie Charles, one of the co- authors of the new survey to talk about the surprising ways in which family networks persist despite the instability of twenty first century life. INEQUALITY Does it matter that the rich are getting richer at a faster rate than anyone else? What effect does the growing disparity between rich and poor have on society at large? Laurie Taylor explores the reasons for growth in inequality and poverty in the United Kingdom with Professor John Hills, author of Inequality and the State and Professor Ruth Lister author of Poverty. Additional information: ProfessorNickie Charles Professor of Sociology at the University of Swansea Social Change and the Family Chris Harris, Nickie Charles and Charlotte Davies Research (R000238454) funded by ESRC , part of the project: Social change, family formation and kin relationships Nicola (Nickie) Charles Professor John Hills Professor of Social Policy at LSE and Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion Inequality and the State Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN 0199276641 A Hundred Years of Poverty and Policy John Hills (Editor), Howard Glennerster (Editor), David Piachaud (Editor) Publisher: York Publishing Services - Joseph Rowntree Foundation ISBN 1859352219 A More Equal Society?: New Labour, Poverty, Inequality and Exclusion John Hills (Editor), Kitty Stewart (Editor) Publisher: The Policy Press ISBN 1861345771 Professor Ruth Lister Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University, Poverty Publisher: Blackwell Publishing ISBN 0745625649 The Exclusive Society: Citizenship and the Poor Publisher: CPAG ISBN 0946744262 Working Together Against Poverty: Involving Poor People in Action Against Poverty Ruth Lister, Peter Beresford Publisher: Open Services Project ISBN 0951755404

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: MULTICULTURALISM AND SECULARISM + MILLTOWN BOYS REVISITED

Description: MULTICULTURALISM AND SECULARISM How appropriate is a western notion of secularism in dealing with the complexities of a multi- faith society? Laurie Taylor is joined by Rajeev Bhargava, Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi and Anshuman Mondal, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Leicester to debate whether Western Secularism has outlived its purpose and if anything can be learnt from the Indian model of secularism? . MILLTOWN BOYS REVISITED Laurie Taylor speaks to Dr Howard Williamson about his new study The Milltown Boys Revisited. The book is a sequel to Five Years, a groundbreaking study in the 1970s of a group of boys on one of Europe's largest council estates. At its close, the boys he interviewed were left with few prospects and bleak futures. In The Milltown Boys Revisited Williamson returns to find out what has become of them. Additional information: Mini conference: Secularism and Faith - Thursday 4th November 2004 Part of the Eye to Eye global conference on cultural relations, organised by the British Council and Counterpoint, at the Business Design Centre in London Further information can be found at Counterpoint-online Professor Rajeev Bhargava Professor of Political Theory and Indian Political Thought at the University of Delhi Secularism and its critics Rajeev Bhargava (Editor) Publisher: OUP India ISBN 0195650271 Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy Rajeev Bhargava (Editor), Amiya Kumar Bagchi (Editor), R. Sudarshan (Editor) Publisher: OUP India ISBN 0195648242 Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy Francine R. Frankel (Editor), Zoya Hasan (Editor), Rajeev Bhargava (Editor) Publisher: OUP India ISBN 0195658329 Individualism in Social Science: Forms and Limits of a Methodology Rajeev Bhargava Publisher: Clarendon Press ISBN 0198242794 Dr Anshuman Mondal Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Leicester Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon ISBN 0415314151 Entertext: interdisciplinary ejournal of cultural and historical studies Dr Howard Williamson School of Social Sciences, University of Cardiff Cardiff University School of Social Sciences The Milltown Boys Revisited Publisher: Berg Publishers ISBN 184520025X Five Years Howard Williamson, Pip Williamson Publisher: Youth Work Press ISBN 0861550463

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT

Description: Following last weeks interview with Sociologist James Stockinger, Professor Peter Nolan talks to Laurie Taylor on the uniqueness of the British the public sector ethos and finds out why its employees, despite being the most motivated, are the most demoralised sector of the workforce. Additonal information: Professor Peter Nolan Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Director ESRC Future of Work Programme ESCR research programme on the future of work: Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major, Op68 CD: The Carline Classical Series - Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony 5/6 Track 5: Allegro Ma Non Troppo Record label: Carlin Class 003 Soundtrack of 1965 TV series Mogul

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: SHYNESS

Description: Susie Scott, Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, spent three years collecting personal stories and accounts of people who see themselves as shy, exploring the social context in which this feeling arises, how it affects our interaction with others, and the way that cultural norms and values shape our perceptions of 'shy' behaviour. Laurie Taylor talks to Susie Scott about her research, which suggests that we should stop stigmatising the shy, and think of it as a social phenomenon rather than a personality trait. Additional information Susie Scott Research Associate School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: TRANSVESTITES

Description: Laurie Taylor turns his mind to sartorial matters: could it be that you are what you wear? Dr Charlotte Suthrell author of Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture joins Laurie Taylor to discuss her cross-cultural study of UK and the Hijra transvestites in India. Why do some men want to dress as women and why is British society so reluctant to accept this? Additional information: Dr Charlotte Suthrell Scholar Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture Berg Publishers ISBN 1859737250 Beaumont Society The Beaumont Society is a transgendered support group in the UK with a support network for the transgender, transvestite, transsexual and cross dressing community.

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: THE GANG AS STREET ORGANISATION

Description: What happens when a violent gang tries to refashion itself as a political movement and the authorities don't want to know? Regardless of motive, actions have meanings and consequences that neither side may have foreseen. David Brotherton, Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is co-author of The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang, an account of his experience of the notorious New York branch of an American super gang and its decision to go straight. But was its newly politicised stance the result of genuine conversion or, as the New York authorities claimed, just a ruse to disguise on-going criminal activities? David Brotherton gives Laurie Taylor the benefit of his street level view of events Additional information: David Brotherton Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the City University of New York. The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios Columbia University Press ISBN 0231114192 Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives Louis Kontos, David C.Brotherton, Luis Barrios Columbia University Press ISBN 0231121415

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: HOW UNWANTED ACTS BECOME CRIMES

Description: The relationship between levels of crime and fear of crime continues to exercise academics and policy makers alike. Do soaring prison populations accurately reflect the former or the latter? Nils Christie, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, argues that crime is a product of cultural, social and mental processes. In his latest book A Suitable Amount of Crime, he examines how the current socio-economic climate makes it easy, and in the interests of many, to broaden the definition of what constitutes criminal behaviour. Additional information Nils Christie Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo A Suitable Amount of Crime Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Lt ISBN 0415336112 (Published 14 Feb 04) Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style? Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Lt ISBN 0415234875 Limits to Pain Robertson ISBN 0855204761

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: JUVENILE OFFENDING and LONG-TERM CRIMINALS

Description: A new study brings up to date the stories of fifty men first encountered as boys in an American reform school in the 1950s. Laurie Taylor meets Professor John Laub to find out what the boys subsequent biographies have to tell us about a widely accepted linkage between juvenile offending and long-term criminal careers. Additional information: Professor John H. Laub Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives Delinquent Boys to Age 70 John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson Harvard University Press ISBN 0674011910 Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub Harvard University Press ISBN 0674176057 Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck Harvard University Press ISBN 0674930304 Delinquents and Non delinquents in Perspective Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck Oxford University Press ISBN 019626491X

Duration: 29 minutes,

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Programme title/sub-title: Loneliness

Description: Are we becoming more lonely? A recent report by the Economic and Social Research Council said that more Britons live alone than ever before - and loneliness seems to be the one thing all of us dread. But does living alone necessarily mean we're lonely? Jenni is joined by Helen Wilkinson, a social commentator and founder of Genderquake and Professor Christina Victor, a gerontologist at Reading University.

Duration: 9 minutes, 4 seconds

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Programme title/sub-title: None

Description: Main prog inc items on Stephen LAWRENCE; C.A.P; Snow; Tennis; Kosovo; Nigeria Oscars; Racism in Police. Presented by John NICOLSON & Sophie RAWORTH. Prog includes S.E. News,Sports News, Weather and Papers Review. Business news inc items on William Hill; Stockwatch; Air France; G7; Euro; Language Skills & Californian Wine. Presented by Anna JONES. Main prog inc items on Stephen LAWRENCE; C.A.P; Snow; Tennis; Kosovo; Nigeria Oscars; Racism in Police. Presented by John NICOLSON & Sophie RAWORTH. Business news inc items on William Hill; Stockwatch; Air France; G7; Euro; Language Skills & Californian Wine. Presented by Anna JONES. Main prog inc items on Stephen LAWRENCE; C.A.P; Snow; Tennis; Kosovo; Nigeria Oscars; Racism in Police. Presented by John NICOLSON & Sophie RAWORTH.

Duration: 57 minutes, 53 seconds

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Programme title/sub-title: Sanctions

Description: David JESSEL pres prog in which striking teenage Dublin shopworkers, Mary MANNING & Karen GEARON, confront top businessmen on ? of sanctions v S.A.

Duration: 34 minutes, 17 seconds

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