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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 - SINGLE WOMEN
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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
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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.
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THINKING ALLOWED - THE FAMILY + INEQUALITY
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24th November 2004 rights: For Educational Use Only
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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.
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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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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BBC BREAKFAST NEWS
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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
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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.
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Heart of the matter - Sanctions
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David JESSEL pres prog in which striking teenage Dublin shopworkers, Mary MANNING & Karen GEARON, confront top businessmen on ? of sanctions v S.A.
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