Thinking Allowed Podcast
New research on how society works
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Social capital; gentrification
Wed 8 Aug 2012
White middle-class settlers in edgy areas, plus how to get ahead in the media.
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Jobs for the Boys
Wed 1 Aug 2012
'Jobs for the Boys?' Discrimination and nepotism in the media industry, with Laurie Taylor
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Sport under communism - Regeneration Games
Wed 25 Jul 2012
Laurie Taylor discusses the security impact of the Olympics. Also, sport under communism.
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Immortality; Evil
Wed 11 Jul 2012
Laurie Taylor explores the ways in which human beings have resisted the idea of mortality.
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Urban Protest
Wed 4 Jul 2012
Urban Protest: Laurie Taylor talks to David Harvey about trouble on the streets.
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Evil; the morality of cycling
Wed 27 Jun 2012
Laurie Taylor asks if a sociology of evil is possible. Also, the morality of cycling.
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Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums
Wed 20 Jun 2012
A study of the slums of Mumbai. Also, the rights and wrongs of taxation.
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Working class alienation - Nottingham council estate
Wed 6 Jun 2012
Laurie Taylor talks to speakers at the 2012 British Sociological Association conference.
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AIDS conspiracy theories; comics
Wed 30 May 2012
A cultural history of British comics plus AIDS conspiracy theories.
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Wine tasting; US philanthropy
Wed 23 May 2012
US philanthropic foundations, and the changing language of wine tasting.
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Why Love Hurts
Wed 16 May 2012
Laurie Taylor investigates the pain of love from a sociological perspective.
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Hebden Bridge; neighbours
Wed 9 May 2012
Laurie Taylor explores the fortunes of Hebden Bridge. Also, a social history of neighbours
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Nationhood; recognising transgender
Wed 2 May 2012
Transgender body modifications and latent nationalism, subjects of two prize-winning books
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Raoul Moat - the media story; Indian sex workers
Wed 25 Apr 2012
Raoul Moat - the media story, and prostitutes in Calcutta.
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The High-life and the Row-life
Wed 18 Apr 2012
Laurie Taylor discusses an ethnography of crack users and a study of a Cambridge crew.
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Steeltown - Life after Burberry
Wed 4 Apr 2012
Steeltown meltdown and Burberry closure - life after industry death in two Welsh towns.
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Culinary Culture and Globalisation - Dignity
Wed 28 Mar 2012
With Laurie Taylor. Including Michelin-starred restaurants and the meaning of dignity.
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Home at RIBA
Wed 21 Mar 2012
What does the idea of home mean to us in Britain today? A special edition on private life.
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Private military security; whisky tourism
Wed 14 Mar 2012
Professionals and cowboys? UK and US military security workers. Also, 'whisky tourism'.
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Boxing styles UK vs US - Why nations fail
Wed 7 Mar 2012
Why Nations Fail. Plus boxing, UK and US style.
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Ambient religion - Poverty and social work
Wed 29 Feb 2012
Ambient faith and social work, and poverty between the wars. Presented by Laurie Taylor.
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Citizens without Frontiers - Monogamy in men
Wed 15 Feb 2012
New research on men and monogamy. Plus, citizens without frontiers.
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Obesity - Cruel Optimism
Wed 8 Feb 2012
Obesity Clinics and the 'cruel optimism' that still promises the good life.
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The Politics of Alcohol - Cooperation
Wed 1 Feb 2012
The British and booze, and how we can all learn to cooperate much better.
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Conspiracy theories - International suffering
Wed 25 Jan 2012
Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers.
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Stag tourism - Men and childbirth
Wed 18 Jan 2012
Stag Tours and men's experience of childbirth. Laurie encounters the modern male.
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