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LIFE IN MIDDLE AGE - Part 2 - Changing Identities
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17th June 2003 rights: For Educational Use Only
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In her continuing look at health and wellbeing over the seven ages of man, Connie St Louis turns her attentions to the adult years of 40 - 60.
As we approach middle age changes in health, family circumstances can make us think about
... » Show rest where we are in our lives. Decisions about health and lifestyle now can affect our health and wellbeing well into old age.
The second programme looks at the mental impact of ageing and our changing identity. How do we see ourselves as we approach our middle years? If children are leaving the family home, does this leave an empty nest or provide opportunity and time for a renewed relationship with our partner. Our changing fertility leads to hormonal changes – what do these do to the body and how do we feel about our changing fertility? Does the menopause affect men and women differently?
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LIFE IN MIDDLE AGE - Part 3 - Menopause
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24th June 2003 rights: For Educational Use Only
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In the third programme, Connie St Louis (as a forty-something) discovers the evolutionary reasons for the menopause, the science behind mood swings and how to avoid osteoporosis.
You and Yours - Naughty or Ill
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6th April 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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ADHD is a routine diagnosis for some children - but is it always the right one?
Tens of thousands of these children are given powerful drugs to calm them down. Leo Mckinstry, writer for The Spectator is one of the many who suspect
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Joining the discussion are Priscilla Alderson, Professor of Childhood Studies at the Institute of Education, Dr David Coghill, senior lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry and Andrea Bilbow, the founder and director of ADDISS, the National Attention Deficit Disorder Information and Support Service.
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Woman's Hour - Homophobic Bullying
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14th March 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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It is estimated that there are 60,000 lesbians and gay teenagers subjected to homophobic bullying at any one time. Gay rights charity, Stonewall, has launched a campaign called Education for All which highlights the problems of this
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Jenni hears from a lesbian who endured bullying at school for many years. She also finds out what is being done to eradicate this neglected aspect of bullying and why despite government guidelines, schools still don't seem to know how to deal with this problem.
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Woman's Hour - Domiciliary Care Workers
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23rd November 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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In the frontline of looking after the frail and elderly in their homes
It is increasingly a service contracted out by Social Services.
So how are domiciliary care-workers regulated and trained and what happens when things go wrong?
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We hear the story of one 83-year-old woman left in the bath by a careworker who later died after scalding herself.
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Woman's Hour - Violence against women
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1st March 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Violence against women in many forms is an enduring problem in this country. The number of reported rapes is at an all time high of eleven thousand seven hundred of which only one in twenty leads to a criminal conviction.
But a
... » Show rest new report claims that the real figure is much higher ÔøΩ at least forty seven thousand. The study carried out by the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University claims that at least a quarter of the female population has suffered rape or reported rape.
This week Women's National Commission and Amnesty International launch a report that calls upon the government to adopt an integrated, strategic approach to ending all forms of violence against women.
So is a new approach needed? Martha talks to the Home Office minister, Baroness Patricia Scotland and Professor Liz Kelly from London Metropolitan University, one of the authors of the report commissioned by Amnesty International and WomenÔøΩs Aid.
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THINKING ALLOWED - ELECTRONIC TAGGING
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1st September 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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This summer the Home Secretary, David Blunkett , announced the expansion of tagging schemes for offenders which will lead to an increase in the number that are tagged and the introduction of satellite tagging.
Laurie Taylor debates
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THINKING ALLOWED - MANAGEMENT OF RISK IN EVERYDAY LIFE
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23rd March 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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
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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)
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THINKING ALLOWED - EVIDENCE BASED RESEARCH
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15th December 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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The government has been strongly committed to evidence-based policy and practice. It wants to use evidence of what works to inform and drive ambitious and innovative social programmes. But how is evidence-based research used? Is policy
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Laurie Taylor looks at these issues with Anna Coote, director, Health Policy at the King's Fund and co-author of a report Finding Out What Works and Dr Geoff Mulgan, former director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and currently director of the Institute of Community Studies.
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THINKING ALLOWED - THE FAMILY + INEQUALITY
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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
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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
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THINKING ALLOWED - MULTICULTURALISM AND SECULARISM + MILLTOWN BOYS REVISITED
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3rd November 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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
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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
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THINKING ALLOWED - PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT
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6th October 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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,
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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
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THINKING ALLOWED - MEN TALK
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16th June 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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If the stereotypes are to be believed, men either don’t talk very much, or talk compulsively and competitively about sport, cars and their latest drinking exploits.
To find out if these stereotypes accurate, Laurie
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What do men talk about? Do they talk differently when they are with other men? With Euro 2004 currently monopolising conversations down the pub, Laurie also asks if there is more to men’s conversation than drinking and football.
Additional information
Professor Jennifer Coates
Professor of English Language & Linguistics at the University of Surrey, Roehampton
Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN 0631182535
Language and Gender: A Reader
Jennifer Coates (Editor)
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN 0631195955
Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN 0631220461
Michael Holden
Journalist and Broadcaster
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THINKING ALLOWED - SHYNESS
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26th May 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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
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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
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THINKING ALLOWED - SEXUAL TENSION
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24th March 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Although modern societies seem to be becoming more liberal about sex it appears that at the same time many anxieties remain. Laurie Taylor discusses with Professor Sue Scott why the very subject of sex makes some people feel tense.
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Sue Scott
Professor of Sociology at the University of Durham
Risky Children and Risky Childhoods: Theorising Childhood and Sexuality
S. Scott and S. Jackson
in Theorising Risk and Culture Cambridge
D. Lupton
Cambridge University Press 1999
Sexuality, Anxiety and the challenge to sociology
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THINKING ALLOWED - TRANSVESTITES
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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
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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.
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THINKING ALLOWED - THE GANG AS STREET ORGANISATION
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18th February 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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
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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
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THINKING ALLOWED - PRISONS + SEX CULTURE
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3rd March 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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PRISONS
Laurie Taylor visits England’s oldest prison, the Tower of London, to talk to ex-prison governor and criminologist, Professor David Wilson, about a new project whose aim is to bring fans of prison drama
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Wilson believes that popular cultural constructions of prison such as Porridge and the Shawshank Redemption may inadvertently lead to public complacency over the real state of contemporary penal institutions.
SEX CULTURE
Laurie Taylor also talks to two leading feminist theorists, Rosalind Gill and Professor Angela McRobbie, about growing concerns over our increasingly frank sex culture. Is what Angela McRobbie has called Porn Chic, a victory or rather a reverse in terms of progressing towards sexual equality?
Additional information:
David Wilson
Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Policy and Research at University of Central England
Prison Film Project
The first major national initiative devoted to examining the portrayal of prison in film and television drama
Images of Incarceration: Representations of Prisons in Film and Television Drama
David Wilson, Sean O’Sullivan
Waterside Press
ISBN 1904380085
The Prison Governor: Theory and Practice
David Wilson, Shane Bryan
Prison Service Journal
ISBN 0952841312
What Every in Britain Should Know About Crime and Punishment (Blackwell)
Editors David Wilson, John Ashton
Blackstone Press
ISBN 1841742694
Prison(Er) Education: Stories of Change and Transformation
Editors David Wilson, Anne Reuss
Waterside Press
ISBN 1872870902
Innocence Betrayed: Paedophilia, the Media and Society
David Wilson, Jon Silverman
Polity Press ISBN 0745628893
Prisoners of the Tower: 1100-1941
New exhibition at the Tower of London explores the stories of past prisoners
Date: 28 April to 25 September 04
Ticket line: 0870 756 7070
Angela McRobbie
Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London
The Rise and Rise of Porn Chic
Times Higher Education Supplement 02/01/004
Rosalind Gill
Lecturer in Gender Studies and Gender Theory LSE
From Sexual Objectification to sexual subjectifiction: The re-sexualisation of women’s bodies in the media
Feminist Media Studies
Routledge Spring 2003
MUSIC:
My Gidget
(Greenfield-Keller)
Performer: Johnny Tillotson
LP title: Johnny Tillotson sings Our World
Side two, track 1
Record label: MGMC 8005
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THINKING ALLOWED - HOW UNWANTED ACTS BECOME CRIMES
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11th February 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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
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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
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THINKING ALLOWED - CRIMINAL POLICY TRANSFER
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28th January 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Today criminals increasingly operate across national boundaries and so apparently do ideas of criminal justice. Laurie Taylor considers the claim that crime control policies here and in the United States are converging.
He talks
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Additional information:
Professor Tim Newburn
Professor of Criminology and Social Policy and Director of the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the London School of Economics
Criminal Justice and Political Cultures: National and international dimensions of crime control
Edited by Tim Newburn and Richard Sparks
Willan publishing
ISBN 1 84392 054 9
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THINKING ALLOWED - JUVENILE OFFENDING and LONG-TERM CRIMINALS
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14th January 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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
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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
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You and Yours - Anti-social behaviour
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14th April 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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The curse of modern times?
The ASBO is 5 years old this month. Is it an acceptable way to control unacceptable behaviour? Can anything to done to nip bad behaviour in the bud? We discuss it.
Woman's Hour - Internet paedophiles
duration: 9 minutes, 54 seconds broadcast:
10th March 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Is stranger danger on the net more of a concern than the mysterious man lurking at the school gates?
The Guardian’s Dea Birkett claims that we should stop scaring children with tales of paedophiles prowling the
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Latest statistics from the Home Office show that the number of internet paedophiles arrested has quadrupled in two years but how many children have actually been ‘saved’ from abuse?
Dea and Jim Gamble from the National Crime Squad join Jenni on the programme to discuss whether the threat posed to our children is real or exaggerated.
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Woman's Hour - NSPCC youth centres
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2nd March 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Building a network for young people
When a young person has problems, often the last thing they want to do is to confide in a social worker. Many regard such people as frightening figures of authority with a quite terrifying degree
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In an effort to provide a more relaxed setting where young people can meet and build up a real relationship with social workers, the NSPCC now runs at a network of Children's Centres around the country.
Caroline Swinburne went to Warrington to visit the Peace Centre which was set up in 2000 after the IRA bomb in Warrington.
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Woman's Hour - Loneliness
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21st February 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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
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Jenni is joined by Helen Wilkinson, a social commentator and founder of Genderquake and Professor Christina Victor, a gerontologist at Reading University.
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Woman's Hour - Relate in prisons
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9th February 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Helping families on the outside
When a man or woman is in prison the family left behind also suffers.
Partners often have to struggle with little money whilst there are difficulties explaining to a child why a parent has gone
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At the end of a long separation it can be hard to pull the family together on release. The charity, Action for Families, is co-ordinating 'family relationship workshops' in prisons.
At Ashwell Prison near Leicester wives and partners come together with male prisoners to spend a day thinking through some of the problems they may face. Caroline Swinburne joined Theresa Oldman of Relate.
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Woman's Hour - Richard Pelzer
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8th February 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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On living with an abusive mother
In 2001, Dave Pelzer wrote about the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother during his childhood, and how she encouraged his brothers to treat him as 'the family slave'. One
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Jenni talks to Richard Pelzer about his role as his mother's main collaborator and how, when Dave was taken away, he fell from favour and found himself on the receiving end of the abuse.
A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse
Richard B. Pelzer
Little Brown
ISBN 0316727326
My Story: 'A Child Called It', 'The Lost Boy', 'A Man Named Dave'
Dave Pelzer
Orion ISBN: 0752853716
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Woman's Hour - Lesbianism
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7th February 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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How has being a lesbian changed?
Clare Summerskill's new play, Gateway to Heaven is based entirely on the memories of older lesbians and gay men.
Their stories are an eye-opener on a time when lesbians and gay men were significantly
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Woman's Hour - Ageism
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10th January 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Should it be treated like sexism and racism?
The over 50s currently create a quarter of the UK’s economic wealth. Up to a million older people who are not currently in paid work could be, adding a potential £30
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Jenni asks why, with such a good economic case for making sure people over 50 are in employment, prejudice against this age group is such a growing problem.
She finds out if it’s harder to find employment if you’re a woman over 50 than a man and asks what we can do to stop this trend. Should we be treating ageism like sexism and racism?
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Woman's Hour - Women & cocaine
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16th December 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Why is addiction on the increase?
The number of women taking drugs has always lagged behind the number of men, but research shows that the ratio of girls to boys aged just 11 who've admitted using drugs is roughly the same.
So
... » Show rest it seems girls are catching up. It's also claimed that the number of children placed on the child protection register because their parents have a drugs problem now exceeds those children listed because their parents drink.
Jenni is joined by Mary Hepburn, Consultant Obstetrician at Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital and Neil McKeganey, Director of Centre for Drug Misuse Research at Glasgow University.
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Woman's Hour - Domestic violence
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24th November 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Still a gender issue?
The most recent British Crime Survey shows that one in four women and one in six men have suffered domestic violence at some point in their lives.
As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Week, Woman's
... » Show rest Hour looks at the statistics and asks how helpful it is to think about domestic violence as either a male or female problem.
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Woman's Hour - Social workers
duration: 12 minutes, 36 seconds broadcast:
15th November 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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A new documentary that hopes to challenge the stereotype
A new six part documentary follows a year in the life of social workers from a children’s services unit in Bristol.
Annie Hudson is Head of Children's
... » Show rest Services with Bristol City Council and Clare Phipps is a social worker with the Looked After Children team. Jenni asks them how we can change public perceptions of what seems to be one of the most vilified professions in the country?
Someone to watch over me
BBC1, 10.35pm, from 16 November
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Woman's Hour - Sadness
duration: 9 minutes, 38 seconds broadcast:
8th November 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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How good are we at dealing with it?
We all have sadness in our lives but how well do we cope with it?
Jenni talks to author and broadcaster, Michael Rosen, about his new picture book in which he describes his sadness about the
... » Show rest death of his son. Author and counsellor, Suzy Hayman, joins them to discuss how sadness affects our lives and how we deal with it.
Michael Rosen's Sad Book with illustrations by Quentin Blake is published by Walker Books ISBN 0744598982
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Woman's Hour - Young runaways
duration: 13 minutes, 3 seconds broadcast:
4th November 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Every year more than 100,000 children under 16 living in the UK run away from home
Of these a quarter are under the age of 11 – some as young as six years old.
We hear from a woman who’s twelve
... » Show rest year old daughter persistently ran away and
was frequently returned to the family home by the police.
Jill Colbert from the Safe in the City project in Salford - who works with young runaways - and John Wheeler from Childline will be joining Jenni to discuss the difficulties that parents of runaways can face in accessing help.
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Woman's Hour - Single parents
duration: 14 minutes, 10 seconds broadcast:
25th October 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Should they have to seek work to get benefits?
As the Government launches further pilot projects to encourage lone parents to return to work Woman's Hour asks whether incentives or sanctions are more effective in getting parents
... » Show rest back into the labour market.
David Willets, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary and Kate Stanley, Head of Social Policy at the Institute for Public Policy Research discuss whether lone parents with secondary school aged children should have to seek work in order to claim benefits.
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Woman's Hour - Female binge-drinking
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7th October 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Hospital consultants in the North of England have noticed increasing numbers of young women are seeking treatment after being injured in drunken brawls
They claim fighting between women is resulting in horrific injuries such as broken
... » Show rest cheek bones, fractured hands, or facial wounds inflicted by being hit with glasses or bottles. Is this another consequence of binge-drinking or are women becoming more violent?
Professor Anne Campbell an expert in female aggression from the Psychology Department, at the University of Durham and Don MacKechnie, the Chairman of the British Medical Association’s accident and emergency department and a consultant at Rochdale Royal Infirmary will be joining Jenni on the programme.
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Woman's Hour - Men and crying
duration: 12 minutes, 2 seconds broadcast:
29th September 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Is it all right for men to cry?
Recent research found that British men are now more willing to admit to crying.
Author, Mark Mason and psychiatrist, Jonathan Pimm talk to Jenni about why it's increasingly acceptable for men
... » Show rest to well up - and what they cry about.
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Woman's Hour - Paedophiles
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23rd September 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Can a community recover when a known abuser returns to live there?
A mother whose daughter was sexually abused by a local man is concerned how his return to their community will affect her family's lives.
After his release
... » Show rest from prison, the man who abused her daughter when she was a child, will go back to his marital home. But the mother says her daughter will move away to ensure she doesn't have to face her abuser again.
Can a small community help in the rehabilitation of a sex offender and what benefits does it gain?
Jenni talks to child psychotherapist Anne Bannister to discuss how a community can heal itself when a known paedophile lives within it.
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Woman's Hour - Disabled Children and Childcare
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A recent letter to The Financial Times followed a report on the widening wealth gap under the Labour Government
More than half of families with disabled children live on the margins of poverty; Just 16 percent of mothers with disabled
... » Show rest children work, compared with 61 percent of other mothers; and childminders and nurseries geared to providing facilities for disabled children are scarce.
With the Government setting targets to tackle child poverty, Woman's Hour asks whether families with disabled children are getting a rough deal.
Christine Lenehan, Director, The Council for Disabled children and Baroness Ashton join Jenni to discuss.
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Woman's Hour - Wrongful Imprisonment
duration: 14 minutes, 12 seconds broadcast:
2nd August 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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What support is available for people released on appeal?
Last December Angela Canning was cleared for murdering her two babies. This has led to the wholesale review of cases of parents and carers convicted of killing their babies
... » Show rest over the last ten years. The Attorney General has already suggested that it might be appropriate for 24 cases to be considered for appeal.
But what help is available for people who have been released from wrongful imprisonment and why is it often less than if the accused had been found guilty?
Jenni talks to Amarjit Kaur from the Citizens Advice Bureau who are piloting a project to support these innocent people.
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Woman's Hour - Mentoring
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26th July 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Can mentoring children break a cycle of crime?
There's been a lot of talk recently about how to deal with young people who fall foul of the law. But what if young people who are likely to do so could be identified before they
... » Show rest actually offend?
The Community Service Volunteers has set up a scheme which has already proved successful. The Mentors and Peers (MAP) project matches young people with volunteer mentors who meet regularly for a period of six months.
One such young person is 11 year old Bobby who is anxious to avoid the fate of elder brothers who have served prison sentences. Judi Herman visits Bobby and his mentor, Anna, at a World War Two Activity Day.
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Woman's Hour - Young people behaving badly
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21st July 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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How should we deal with them?
On Monday the Government announced its new five year plan to tackle crime. Since then there's been much talk of sweeping the streets clean of yobs and cracking down on young offenders. But what
... » Show rest is the most effective way of dealing with bad behaviour by young people?
Martha discusses the issues with Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison Reform Trust, Nadia Martin, a policy analyst from Civitas and Sarah Meyers, who grew up in an area with anti-social behaviour orders and now works with young people.
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Woman's Hour - The Skipton washing line
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15th July 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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How a group of Yorkshire women were determined to save a tradition
For generations the women of Skipton have pegged out their washing on lines strung across the back alley that separates Thornton Street from Clitheroe Street.
But
... » Show rest when a man complained that this practice prevented him parking his car behind his house, it looked as though this tradition might come to an end.
Margaret Hicks has lived in the street all her life and was determined to galvanise a group of women into fighting back. She tells Shelia why she felt this was a tradition worth preserving.
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Woman's Hour - The Yorkshire Ripper
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15th July 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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How his crimes affected the 25 children left motherless
Almost 30 years ago, a young woman went missing in the early hours of the morning. When they found her body, only yards away from the house where her four young children had
... » Show rest been sleeping, the police were yet to realise they had a serial killer in their midst.
Wilma McCann was the first victim of Peter Sutcliffe who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper. Her son, Richard, explains how the loss of his mother and the media's obsession with the Ripper killings affected his life.
Richard McCann, Just a Boy: The True Story of a Stolen Childhood, Ebury Press
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LIFE AS A TEENAGER - Part 1
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New research says that teenagers' brains are different and this is thought to account for the rages that they get into. Then there's surging hormones, changing bodies, experiments in social and sexual relationships. And what
... » Show rest are all those unsuitable clothes and experiments with makeup and body piercing about? Let alone drugs‚Ķ and most parents hope teenagers do let them alone, which makes drugs all the more enticing to young people. This is also the time of huge exam pressures. From GCSEs, through A levels to degree, then hopefully the first job, it feels like there'll never be a summer without high anxiety. Physiology, psychology and pharmacology: can medical science help to make this rite of passage any easier?
The first programme looks at the hormonal changes that are the hallmark of the teenage years. Reports have suggested that children are reaching puberty earlier - Connie finds out if this is true. She meets an agony aunt who tells her what concerns bring teenagers to her, and she talks to teenagers themselves about what it's like for them going through great hormonal changes.
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LIFE AS A TEENAGER - Part 2
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Adolescence is a turbulent time. Teenagers' behaviour can seem bizarre to adults, with their need to sleep till the afternoon, their obsessions about music or sport, and of course their mood swings. One minute your teenager is
... » Show rest being sensible and you're having an ordinary conversation; the next moment he or she is storming out of the room and saying how unfair their life is. Research is now suggesting that some of this erratic behaviour can be put down to the reorganisation that goes on in the brain at this age.
This is the time of life when psychiatric conditions can emerge. The first signs of schizophrenia are often apparent during the teenage years, as are eating disorders. More and more girls are, it seems, harming themselves, and some teenagers go on to commit suicide. It's a time when we're particularly conscious of our appearance and easily lose self esteem and become depressed.
In the second programme, Connie asks what teenage behaviour is normal and what should make parents and teachers worry. She discovers what's being done to help teenagers with mental health problems - from virtual reality therapy for those with anorexia, to groups which try to reduce the chances of girls cutting themselves. And she looks at the role of teenage magazines in the well-being of their target market.
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LIFE AS A TEENAGER - Part 3
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In the third programme exploring teenage life, Connie St Louis looks at how adolescents relate to those around them. Many children hit puberty just as their parents are starting to ponder their own mid-life crises. It is a recipe for
... » Show rest sulking and attrition on both sides. Can family conflicts really be avoided in such an explosive atmosphere? Or does a culture of healthy argument benefit all those involved? What should you do when your pliant co-operative child turns into a monosyllabic teenage grump?
And as teenagers begin to discover their sexuality, Connie explores how teenage romance can lead to teenage motherhood. She visits a teenage mothering help centre in Cornwall to ask the young parents how they are coping and find out why they opted for motherhood. Teen mums are often portrayed as feckless and scheming. They are accused of ruining their lives and sponging off the state. How accurate are these stereotypes? And are we doing enough to support young mums?
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LIFE AS A TEENAGER - Part 4
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In the final programme of the series, Connie St Louis looks at the later stages of adolescence. This is a time when teenagers are searching hard for their own identity - and yet they spend time trying hard to fit in with their group
... » Show rest of friends. There is evidence that teenagers who aren't part of a group can have problems in later life. But group membership can come at a price. The pressure to conform can put pressure of young people to dress alike, listen to the same music and even do things like drink or take drugs. Yet recent studies have shown that tolerance of different behaviours within the group is wider than many parents think, so blaming the group for your teenager's problems is not a good way of dealing with adolescent difficulties.
And there are exams. Teenage girls, in particular, feel the pressure to succeed and can take any slip very hard indeed. Boys, on the other hand, are more likely to fail, and their problems are often compounded by the disdain of high achieving girls. Sexual stereotypes appear to have been reversed, girls compete, boys retreat - but both feel insecure.
And then there's sex. Much of learning to be yourself can be learning how to cope with your burgeoning sexuality - and that can be the scariest thing of all.
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LIFE AS AN ADULT - Part 1 - Healthy Bodies
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In her continuing look at health and wellbeing over the seven ages of man, Connie St Louis turns her attentions to the adult years of 20 - 40.
These are often the most healthy and active years of our lives, but decisions taken about
... » Show rest health as a young adult can affect your wellbeing for decades.
The first programme looks at how the fully formed body functions. As biological machines, our bodies are little short of miraculous, but they are also highly vulnerable to aches, pains and disease. Most puzzling are those that strike in the prime of life - Multiple sclerosis, testicular cancer, and ME. What triggers these distressing conditions in apparently healthy bodies? And can new advances in genetics lead to a breakthrough in our treatment and management of these distressing conditions?
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LIFE AS AN ADULT - Part 2 - Time for a Baby?
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In her continuing look at health and wellbeing over the seven ages of man, Connie St Louis turns her attentions to the adult years of 20 - 40.
These are often the most healthy and active years of our lives, but decisions taken about
... » Show rest health as a young adult can affect your wellbeing for decades.
The second programme looks at sex and relationships. This is often the most promiscuous period in people's lives, but also the most likely time to have children. Connie also looks at the astonishing success of fertility treatments. Less than a generation ago, there was little hope for childless couples beyond adoption. Now there are a range of possibilities that have delivered parenthood for thousands. But have we really thought through the social consequences of this revolution in reproduction?
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LIFE AS AN ADULT - Part 3 - Adult Minds
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In her continuing look at health and wellbeing over the seven ages of man, Connie St Louis turns her attentions to the adult years of 20 - 40.
These are often the most healthy and active years of our lives, but decisions taken about
... » Show rest health as a young adult can affect your wellbeing for decades.
Programme three looks at mental health in early adulthood. Unlike most other disease, mental illness tends to afflict young adults more than any other group. Schizophrenia is common, as is depression. Suicide peaks in young men at around 30. Connie tries to uncover the factors that are fuelling this alarming statistic. Plus the pressures of parenthood. How having a baby can literally drive you crazy.
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LIFE AS AN ADULT - Part 4 - Living Life to the Full
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In her continuing look at health and wellbeing over the seven ages of man, Connie St Louis turns her attentions to the adult years of 20 - 40.
These are often the most healthy and active years of our lives, but decisions taken about
... » Show rest health as a young adult can affect your wellbeing for decades.
Programme four looks at lifestyle and keeping active. Young adults are often paradoxical in their behaviour. They are society's keenest sports fanatics, but also consumers of vast quantities of junk food and are more likely to smoke and drink to excess. Women, for instance, are now binge drinking more than ever before. How will the lives we lead in our 20s and 30s affect our health in later years?
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LIFE IN MIDDLE AGE - Part 1 - Changing Bodies
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10th June 2003 rights: For Educational Use Only
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In her continuing look at health and wellbeing over the seven ages of man, Connie St Louis turns her attentions to the adult years of 40 - 60.
As we approach middle age changes in health, family circumstances can make us think about
... » Show rest where we are in our lives. Decisions about health and lifestyle now can affect our health and wellbeing well into old age.
The first programme looks at our changing bodies – are we falling apart? Hair may start greying, our joints creaking, or eyesight failing. What causes these changes and can we do anything to prevent them or at least reduce their impact? Connie meets a trichologist who explains what’s happening to hair as its follicles reach middle age and she meets back expert, Dr Steve Longworth to find out what is the best way to keep a healthy posture. And are we at more risk of disease at this time of life? In this programme Connie takes her husband for an all over health check to see if lifestyle changes would reduce his risk of developing conditions like diabetes or hypertension. But does screening for disease in well people actually do any good? In this programme Connie finds out which bits of us are more prone to the effects of ageing and what are the best measures to keep them healthy.
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LIFE IN MIDDLE AGE - Part 4 - Men's Health
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1st July 2003 rights: For Educational Use Only
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What happens to men's hormones with age and is there such a thing as a male menopause? Connie will also be looking at some of diseases which affect men in middle age including cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer.
LIFE IN OLD AGE - Programme 1
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9th March 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Connie St Louis returns with Life in Old Age - Radio 4’s series examining the seven stages of human development. She looks at issues which affect us as we reach our sixties and seventies. She also asks what can be
... » Show rest done to reduce or alleviate the effects of ageing and how we can learn to live with these bodily changes.
In the first of this new series Connie St Louis investigates memory loss. We all forget where we’ve put the car keys, from to time to time, and it gets worse as we get older, but when does normal forgetfulness become a medical problem?
She visits a memory clinic to learn how specialists are helping patients deal with dementia, and finds out that doing the crossword can be of benefit in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
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LIFE IN OLD AGE - Programme 2
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Connie St Louis returns with Life in Old Age - Radio 4’s series examining the seven stages of human development. She looks at issues which affect us as we reach our sixties and seventies. She also asks what can be
... » Show rest done to reduce or alleviate the effects of ageing and how we can learn to live with these bodily changes.
In the second programme of the series Connie St Louis discovers what we can do about the chronic conditions that can make our lives a misery. She finds out that we don’t have to put up with the pains of osteo-arthritis and the inability to hear.
She also talks to a psychologist who runs clinics where people are taught to accept that they need much less sleep after the age of 60.
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LIFE IN OLD AGE - Programme 3
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Connie St Louis returns with Life in Old Age - Radio 4’s series examining the seven stages of human development. She looks at issues which affect us as we reach our sixties and seventies. She also asks what can be
... » Show rest done to reduce or alleviate the effects of ageing and how we can learn to live with these bodily changes.
Is retirement an exciting opportunity to do all those activities denied by long hard years of work, or a time of fear, isolation, lack of status and no sense of direction?
Connie St Louis examines this land mark event confronted by most people in their 60's and finds that it is surrounded by myths that no longer hold true in the 21st Century.
She talks to scientists and retired people about the importance of social networks, loving or loathing grandchildren, finding new love and whether leaving work can be bad for our health.
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LIFE IN OLD AGE - Programme 4
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Connie St Louis returns with Life in Old Age - Radio 4’s series examining the seven stages of human development. She looks at issues which affect us as we reach our sixties and seventies. She also asks what can be
... » Show rest done to reduce or alleviate the effects of ageing and how we can learn to live with these bodily changes.
Hip replacements and heart procedures, such as angioplasty and bypass surgery, are keeping the over 60s active.
Cataract operations are giving back clarity of vision and better dentistry is ensuring that more older people have their own teeth.
In the last of the series Connie St Louis reports on how medicine can fix some of the physical problems of old age.
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LIFE AFTER 80 - Programme 1
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Connie St Louis returns with Life After 80 - Radio 4’s series examining health and wellbeing at different stages of life. In the last part of the series she looks at issues which affect us as we reach our eighties
... » Show rest and beyond.
In the first of this new series, Connie St Louis examines the pre-occupations of a new generation who are experiencing the so called fourth age. Many of them did not expect to live into their 80's and 90's, and old age has come as an unexpected surprise.
Health is of course at the top of the agenda for many living in their 80's, and what may be a minor illness in a younger person can have much more serious consequences in the very elderly. But as Connie St Louis discovers, older people can and do recover from acute illnesses.
No longer is the medical profession writing off this age group as untreatable. Disease, disability and ill health are not the inevitable consequences of old age.
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LIFE AFTER 80 - Programme 2
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Connie St Louis returns with Life After 80 - Radio 4’s series examining health and wellbeing at different stages of life. In the last part of the series she looks at issues which affect us as we reach our eighties
... » Show rest and beyond.
You don’t have to run marathons in your 80's to stay fit, but some people do.
In the second programme of the series Connie St Louis meets the octogenarian athletes, as well as discovering how modern technology is helping people stay in their homes longer.
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LIFE AFTER 80 - Programme 3
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Connie St Louis returns with Life After 80 - Radio 4’s series examining health and wellbeing at different stages of life. In the last part of the series she looks at issues which affect us as we reach our eighties
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In the third programme of the series Connie St Louis discovers how major diseases which are common in the elderly such as heart failure and cancer are being addressed.
How is it possible to improve quality of life at the end of life?
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LIFE AFTER 80 - Programme 4
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Connie St Louis returns with Life After 80 - Radio 4’s series examining health and wellbeing at different stages of life. In the last part of the series she looks at issues which affect us as we reach our eighties
... » Show rest and beyond.
In the final programme in the series Connie St Louis discusses the subject of death, both with elderly people facing death and medical professionals concerned with the care of the dying.
Why is death the great unspoken taboo? And can more be done to help people have a 'good death'?
The programme looks into entering a hospice, the preparation of a will, euthanasia and support for those left behind.
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HARSH REALITIES: How do health professionals deal with life and death decisions? - Programme 1
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14th April 2003 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Medicine is not an exact science. Every day healthcare professionals are expected to make life and death decisions with only their expertise and experience to guide them. There is no comprehensive rule book to tell them how to act.
... » Show rest Harsh Realities looks at how doctors, nurses, social services, and advisers take vital decisions about our lives.
Niall Dickson, the BBC’s social affairs editor, chairs three discussions that attempt to get to the heart of these issues. In each programme Niall will be joined by professionals who have direct experience of the subject under discussion.
The first programme in the series tackles child abuse. When a medical professional suspects that a child has been assaulted, what course of action should they take? Protection of the child is vital of course, but the notorious over zealousness of practitioners on Orkney and Teesside have made many doctors hesitant. Removing a child from his or her home is a dramatic step. If there is even a hint of doubt about the case, should the professionals act – or play it safe?
Other programmes in the series will look at the stark choices facing parents and professionals when a baby is born severely disabled and the legal minefield of assisted suicide. Is it ever morally acceptable for a doctor to help kill a patient?
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HARSH REALITIES: How do health professionals deal with life and death decisions? - Programme 2
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21st April 2003 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Medicine is not an exact science. Every day healthcare professionals are expected to make life and death decisions with only their expertise and experience to guide them. There is no comprehensive rule book to tell them how to act.
... » Show rest Harsh Realities looks at how doctors, nurses, social services, and advisers take vital decisions about our lives.
Niall Dickson, the BBC’s social affairs editor, chairs three discussions that attempt to get to the heart of these issues. In each programme Niall will be joined by professionals who have direct experience of the subject under discussion.
The first programme in the series tackles child abuse. When a medical professional suspects that a child has been assaulted, what course of action should they take? Protection of the child is vital of course, but the notorious over zealousness of practitioners on Orkney and Teesside have made many doctors hesitant. Removing a child from his or her home is a dramatic step. If there is even a hint of doubt about the case, should the professionals act – or play it safe?
Other programmes in the series will look at the stark choices facing parents and professionals when a baby is born severely disabled and the legal minefield of assisted suicide. Is it ever morally acceptable for a doctor to help kill a patient?
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HARSH REALITIES: How do health professionals deal with life and death decisions? - Programme 3
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28th April 2003 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Medicine is not an exact science. Every day healthcare professionals are expected to make life and death decisions with only their expertise and experience to guide them. There is no comprehensive rule book to tell them how to act.
... » Show rest Harsh Realities looks at how doctors, nurses, social services, and advisers take vital decisions about our lives.
Niall Dickson, the BBC’s social affairs editor, chairs three discussions that attempt to get to the heart of these issues. In each programme Niall will be joined by professionals who have direct experience of the subject under discussion.
The first programme in the series tackles child abuse. When a medical professional suspects that a child has been assaulted, what course of action should they take? Protection of the child is vital of course, but the notorious over zealousness of practitioners on Orkney and Teesside have made many doctors hesitant. Removing a child from his or her home is a dramatic step. If there is even a hint of doubt about the case, should the professionals act – or play it safe?
Other programmes in the series will look at the stark choices facing parents and professionals when a baby is born severely disabled and the legal minefield of assisted suicide. Is it ever morally acceptable for a doctor to help kill a patient?
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LIVING WITH PAIN - Part 1 - The Agony and the Ecstasy
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17th September 2002 rights: For Educational Use Only
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Pain - we all know what it feels like, whether it's the short sharp shock of a graze to the knee, or the nagging throb of an arthritic joint. It's an unwelcome sensation, but it's part of being human. Those few born unable
... » Show rest to feel pain - the condition is known as congenital analgesia - die young from injuries they never felt, their bodies scarred from head to toe.
Geoff Watts looks at the range of experience of human pain and how scientists understand it. He meets the people for whom pain is part of their lives - from the elite sportsmen and women who work through it as they strive to achieve the best performance, to individuals who have chronic medical conditions that give them constant agony.
Geoff talks to the researchers who are studying what goes on in the nerves, muscles and joints to create the sensations of pain. And he explores the artistic and musical routes that we have chosen to help us come to terms with painful times.
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LIVING WITH PAIN - Part 3 - The Nature of Pain
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Pain - we all know what it feels like, whether it's the short sharp shock of a graze to the knee, or the nagging throb of an arthritic joint. It's an unwelcome sensation, but it's part of being human. Those few born
... » Show rest unable to feel pain - the condition is known as congenital analgesia - die young from injuries they never felt, their bodies scarred from head to toe.
From back pain to cancer, much of the process of coping with pain is a mental one. Geoff Watts discovers how pain management clinics are using a huge variety of different techniques, including medication, art therapy and acupuncture, to help chronic sufferers live as normally as possible.
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FREUDIAN SLIPS - Part 1- Sexual Aberrations
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In Freudian Slips Lisa Appignanesi revisits five of Freud’s major works for their centenary.
Written in 1905, Freud's groundbreaking 'Three essays on the theory of sexuality' is one of the pillars
... » Show rest on which modern psychoanalysis rests. In the first of these essays, 'Sexual Aberrations' Freud unravels the complex diversity of human desire. Lisa talks to author, Kathy Lette to find out why fetishism isn't too far from shopping and she meets writer and psychoanalyst, Adam Phillips to find out why Freud thought the sexual instinct is such an irresistible force.
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FREUDIAN SLIPS - Part 2 - Infantile Sexuality
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In Freudian Slips Lisa Appignanesi revisits five of Freud’s major works for their centenary.
The second of Freud's 'Three essays on the theory of sexuality' is his ground breaking and shocking exploration
... » Show rest of the relationship between children and their parents. In 'Infantile Sexuality' Freud outlines why our experiences and frustrations in childhood form the basis for our adult neuroses. Lisa Appignanesi talks to psychoanalysts and writers to find out how Oedipus lives on today.
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FREUDIAN SLIPS - Part 3 - Transformations of Puberty
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16th March 2005 rights: For Educational Use Only
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In Freudian Slips Lisa Appignanesi revisits five of Freud’s major works for their centenary.
In the last of Freud's essays on sexuality he explains why the troubled adolescent has to relive childhood in a
... » Show rest bid to leave home. Lisa talks to psychoanalysts working today to find out how the struggles of adolescence have changed over the course of hundred years. She also talks to writer, Sue Townsend to find out what inspired her to write about teenager Adrian Mole and what Freud might have made of him, now, aged 38 and 3/4.
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FREUDIAN SLIPS - Part 4 - Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
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In Freudian Slips Lisa Appignanesi revisits five of Freud’s major works for their centenary.
'Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria' is Freud's first great case history. Dora was brought
... » Show rest to Freud for analysis by her father because of hysterical symptoms and threatened suicide. Dora rejected Freud's interpretations and fled before her treatment was over. Why did she leave and what did Freud learn from his apparent failure? Lisa talks to psychoanalyst and writer, Susie Orbach to find out why 'Dora' would lead to the invention of one of psychoanalysis's most important tools.
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FREUDIAN SLIPS - Part 5 - Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious
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In Freudian Slips Lisa Appignanesi revisits five of Freud’s major works for their centenary.
The Joke Book. In 'Wit and its relation to the Unconscious' Freud explained why the joke, like the dream provides
... » Show rest a unique window into the unconscious. Lisa talks to comic Arnold Brown and therapist turned comedian Inder Manocha, to find out what drives the urge to make others laugh. She also talks to psychoanalysts David Bell to find out why we laugh, why we give ourselves away by our jokes and asks if there is a place for humour on the therapist's couch.
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MIND CHANGERS: Landmark experiments in psychology - Part 1 - Solomon Asch - Conformity
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Every day we try to fit in. We may like to think we're individual but most of the time we don't actually want to stand out too much. It's this idea of conformity that the American social psychologist Solomon Asch studied
... » Show rest in the 1950s, using nothing more complex than straight black lines drawn on pieces of card - it's one of the classic experiments in psychology.
Asch believed people wouldn't go along with the crowd; he set up his experiment to prove that people would stand up against group pressure. Unknown to his subjects, the rest of the group were stooges or plants, who'd been instructed to say A was longer than B, even though it patently wasn't. Contrary to his expectations, Asch discovered that a third of people went along with the group, even when it contradicted the evidence of their own eyes.
Claudia Hammond investigates the reasons for this and asks whether we're more or less likely to conform today.
Those taking part:-
Roy Eidelson - Executive Director of the Solomon Asch Center
Mark Glanville
The Goldberg Variations by Mark Glanville, Flamingo 2003 ISBN 0-00-711841-4
(Paperback to be published 5 Jan 04, 0-00-711842-2)
Henry Gleitman - Professor of Psychology at University of Pennsylvania
Clark McAuley - Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College
Dean Peabody - Professor of Psychology (retired), Swarthmore College
Paul Rozin - Professor of Psychology at University of Pennsylvania
Peter Smith - Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology, University of Sussex
R.A. Bond & P.B. Smith (1996). Culture and conformity: A meta-analysis of
the Asch (1951,1956) line judgment task. Psychological Bulletin, 119,
111-137.
Dr Clifford Stott - Department of Psychology, Liverpool University
Stott, C.J. & Reicher, S.D. (1998). How conflict escalates: The inter-group dynamics of collective football crowd 'violence'. Sociology, 32, 353-377.
Stott, C.J. & Reicher, S.D. (1998). Crowd action as inter-group process: Introducing the police perspective. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 509-529.
Stott, C.J. & Drury, J. (2000). Crowds, context and identity: dynamic categorization processes in the 'poll tax riot'. Human Relations. 53(2), 247-273.
Stott, C.J., Hutchison, P. & Drury, J. (2001) 'Hooligans' abroad? Inter-group dynamics, social identity and participation in collective 'disorder' at the 1998 World Cup Finals. British Journal of Social Psychology. 40, 359-384
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MIND CHANGERS: Landmark experiments in psychology - Part 2 - Jean Piaget: The Three Mountains
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We have to thank the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget for 'learning by play' applied to the classroom - a personal discovery which he believed to be far more effective than sitting in rows learning by rote. His
... » Show rest idea was that children don't just store facts, they process them. As they interact with things around them every day they build a model of the world in their minds, so in the classroom they need the chance to experiment.
There's no disputing the importance of Piaget's educational legacy, but critics have questioned the methodology of much of his experimental work and have concluded that some of his experiments were basically flawed. One such is the Three Mountains - from this experiment Piaget concluded that, because young children could not imagine what someone on the other side of the mountain model from the side they were standing could see, they were incapable of empathy.
Subsequent experiments allowing children to imagine different social, rather than spatial, situations have had very different results. Claudia Hammond asks how far we should rely on Piaget's findings today.
Those taking part:-
Margaret Donaldson
Children's Minds by Margaret Donaldson. Fontana Press 1978 ISBN 0-00-686122-9
Sue Eagle, Head Teacher of Tuckswood Community First School
John Flavell - Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stanford University
The Developmental Psychology of Jean Piaget by John H Flavell. D Van Nostrand Company Ltd, 1963
Cognitive Development by John H Flavell. Pearson Education Inc., 1977 ISBN 0-13-791575
Martin Hughes, Professor of Education at University of Bristol
Annette Karmiloff-Smith - Professor of Neurocognitive Development at Institute of Child Health
Karin Murris, Educational Consultant
John Oates - Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Open University
Peter Sutherland - Lecturer at Institute of Education, University of Stirling
Cognitive Development Today by Peter Sutherland. Paul Chapman Publishing, 1992 ISBN 1-85396-133 7
Jacques Voneche - Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology at The University of Geneva.
Director of Jean Piaget Archives
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MIND CHANGERS: Landmark experiments in psychology - Part 3 - Sir Frederic Bartlett: The War of the Ghosts
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When the British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett was working at Cambridge University during the First World War, memory had only just started to be considered a psychological rather than a philosophical subject. A German psychologist
... » Show rest called Herman Ebbinghaus dominated the field. He had spent days at a time learning lists of nonsense words, testing himself to see precisely how many he could remember. But a game of Chinese Whispers gave Bartlett an idea which he developed into a radically different approach to the study of memory. He discovered that when he asked people to repeat an unfamiliar story they had read, they changed it to fit their existing knowledge, and it was this revised story which then became incorporated into their memory. Bartlett's findings led him to propose 'schema' - the cultural and historical contextualisation of memory, which has important implications for eyewitness testimony and false memory syndrome, and even for artificial intelligence!
To test your own memory of the native American story which Bartlett used – The War of the Ghosts - read it here
Claudia Hammond investigates the impact of Bartlett's findings.
Those taking part:-
Alan Baddeley - Consulting Professor of Psychology at University of York
YOUR MEMORY: A User's Guide, Prion Books, ISBN 1-85375-213-4
(New illustrated and revised edition to be published in May 2004 by Carlton Books, ISBN 1-84442-780)
Bill Brewer - Professor of Psychology at University of Illinois
Richard Gregory - Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at University of Bristol
Elizabeth F. Loftus - Distinguished Professor of Psychology at University of California Irvine
Professor Norman Mackworth (retired)
James Ost - Lecturer in Psychology at University of Portsmouth
Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology by F. C. Bartlett, Introduction by Walter Kintsch
September 1995, Paperback (Hardback) ISBN: 0521483565
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The Pariah Profession - Programme 3 - Brave Herts - Hertfordshire
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Who would want to be a social worker in 21st century Britain?
There is a crisis in recruiting and retaining staff to do this difficult and sometimes dangerous job, yet society demands that it should be done.
Every tragedy such
... » Show rest as the murder of Victoria Climbie or the stabbing of Jonathan Zito points our collective finger at social workers and their systems. Each time we expect them to prevent it ever happening again but is this expectation unrealistic?
In a series of three documentaries for Radio 4 Jenny Cuffe reports from the frontline of social work, witnessing some of the dramatic and intractable human problems social workers are called on to deal with, as well as the moments of success and black comedy.
Programme 3: Brave Herts - Hertfordshire (06/11/2003)
The hospital rings the school to say to that a boy has been beaten up by his father. A 13 year old thrown out of class for fighting , wants to talk about her mum - who is under stress. These are just some of the problems dealt with by one of Hertfordshire's "Children Schools and Families workers" - a new breed created in a county which has done away with social services. In the light of the Government's recent call for reform and combined education and social services we see how Chris Hall, a CSF worker, is helping vulnerable pupils in a large comprehensive school. Is this be the blueprint for the future?
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