Drugs for Life; Subcultural Identity
Drugs for life - Laurie Taylor talks to the US anthropologist, Joseph Dumit, about his research into the burgeoning consumption of medicine in the US. Dumit did ethnographic research with drug company...
6 Mar 201328min
Fashion, Class and Mums; Red Racisms
'Red Racisms' - Laurie Taylor talks to the Professor of Racism and Ethnicity Studies, Ian Law, about his study of racism in Communist and Post Communist countries. He hears about the battle to challen...
27 Feb 201328min
'Ned' Pride in Scotland; Weapon Dogs
Weapon dogs - Laurie Taylor discusses the phenomenon of status dogs with Simon Harding, the author of 'Unleashed..' Also, the growth of 'Ned' pride in Scotland. 'Ned', or non educated delinquent, is t...
20 Feb 201328min
Stan Cohen (1942 - 2013)
Stan Cohen - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme which pays tribute to the work and legacy of one of the most significant sociologists of our times. Eminent social scientists, Stuart Hall, Cono...
13 Feb 201328min
Rock climbing in conflict; women in Russian prisons
Russian women prisoners - in the light of Pussy Riot's imprisonment, timely research on Russia's distinctive penal geography. The sociologist, Judith Pallot, talks to Laurie Taylor about a study based...
30 Jan 201327min
Class and Commuting; Engaging with Climate Change
Climate change - what lies beneath its widespread denial? Laurie Taylor talks to Sally Weintrobe, the editor of the first book of its kind which explores, from a multi disciplinary perspective, what t...
23 Jan 201328min
Birth of Neo-Liberalism; Music, Race and Difference
Neo liberalism - its genesis and development. Laurie Taylor talks to Daniel Stedman Jones, the author of a new book which traces the origins of neo liberal economics. Also, the enduring and complex re...
16 Jan 201327min
Contagion; changing masculinity in retail
Contagion - how commerce spreads disease. Laurie Taylor talks to Mark Harrison, Professor of the History of Medicine, about the close intertwining between trade and germs from the 14th century to toda...
9 Jan 201328min
