Baristas; 'People' History
The rise & fall of the working class: Laurie Taylor talks to Selina Todd, social historian at St Hilda's College, Oxford, about her sweeping study of ordinary British people between 1910-2010. Rooting...
7 Touko 201428min
Ethnography Award: The Winner
The winner of Thinking Allowed's first Ethnography award, in association with the British Sociological Association.Laurie Taylor and a team of esteemed academics - Professor Beverley Skeggs, Professor...
30 Huhti 201428min
The Ethnography Award 'Short List'
The Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in association with the British Sociological Association, presents a special programme devoted to the academic research which has been short liste...
23 Huhti 201428min
British working class gardens - Why England fails (at football)
Gardens of the British Working Class - the historian, Margaret Willes, considers the remarkable feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they planted and loved was not th...
16 Huhti 201428min
The End of Capitalism; Reforming Capitalism
Capitalism - renewal or decline? Laurie Taylor explores the future of our market driven economy. He's joined by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Cent...
9 Huhti 201428min
Kissing; The British Hitman
Kissing - a cultural history. How do we make sense of the kiss and why did it become a vital sign of romance and courtship? Laurie Taylor talks to Marcel Danesi, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology a...
2 Huhti 201428min
Poverty and 'Shame'; Small-Scale Technology in India
Poverty and 'Shame' - shame was once described as the 'irreducible core' of poverty by Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen. Laurie Taylor looks at new cross cultural research which examines the psycho-social ...
26 Maalis 201428min
Race in Police Disciplinaries; Protestant Fishermen in Scotland
Race in police 'misconduct' proceedings - Laurie Taylor considers new research exploring the perception that ethnic minority police officers are disproportionally subjected to such investigations. Gra...
19 Maalis 201428min
