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    Creativity

    Wed 26 Sep 2018

    Creativity re-examined. Has it become a meaningless buzz word for our times?

  • Post-Truth

    Wed 19 Sep 2018

    Post-truth - what is it and how did we get to this point?

  • Drifters

    Wed 12 Sep 2018

    Laurie Taylor explores the life and times of the American train hopping hobo.

  • Smart Cities

    Wed 25 Jul 2018

    Laurie Taylor presents a special edition recorded at the Open University in Milton Keynes.

  • Beauty - Ugliness

    Wed 18 Jul 2018

    Beauty and ugliness.

  • Suburbia Revisited

    Wed 11 Jul 2018

    Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works.

  • Selfies - disconnection from ICTs

    Wed 4 Jul 2018

    'Selfies' - narcissism or self-expression? Also, choosing to disconnect from ICTs.

  • Gangs and spirituality

    Wed 27 Jun 2018

    Gangs and spirituality - can religious belief lead members away from crime?

  • China today

    Wed 20 Jun 2018

    China - how was it lifted out of poverty and what does the future hold?

  • Light and Dark

    Wed 13 Jun 2018

    How the meanings of light and dark have changed over time in the context of urban life.

  • Size Discrimination

    Wed 6 Jun 2018

    Laurie Taylor considers what it means to be very tall, very big or very short.

  • Business Schools

    Wed 30 May 2018

    Should business schools be shut down? Laurie Taylor examines the arguments.

  • Law and Order

    Wed 23 May 2018

    Law and Order: the drama series revisited 40 years later.

  • Marx and Marxism

    Wed 16 May 2018

    Marx and Marxism revisited.

  • The Internet and Democracy

    Wed 9 May 2018

    Laurie Taylor analyses the social and political consequences of our digitised world.

  • Universal Basic Income

    Wed 2 May 2018

    Universal Basic Income - could it work?

  • Menswear Revolution

    Wed 25 Apr 2018

    Menswear revolution - the changes in men's clothes over time.

  • Winner of 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award

    Wed 18 Apr 2018

    The winner of the 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award.

  • Ethnography Award Shortlist 2018

    Wed 11 Apr 2018

    The shortlist for the 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award 2018.

  • Mixed-race families

    Wed 4 Apr 2018

    When is mixed-race heritage passed down to the next generation and when is it not?

  • Dating at university, Online dating

    Wed 28 Mar 2018

    Hook-up culture: dating at university. Also, how online dating has changed our world.

  • Sacrifice

    Wed 21 Mar 2018

    Sacrifice - from Christ's crucifixion to Salafi jihadist suicide bombers.

  • Racial inequality now, Women and political language

    Wed 14 Mar 2018

    Racial inequality now. Also, women and political language.

  • Women and democracy - the language of power

    Wed 7 Mar 2018

    Is democracy failing women? Also, how 'normality' is established in language.

  • The White Working Class.

    Wed 28 Feb 2018

    The white working class - is there a 'left-behind'?

  • Artisanal food - Natural foods

    Wed 21 Feb 2018

    Artisanal and natural foods.

  • A Valentine Day's special

    Wed 14 Feb 2018

    A Valentine Day's Special programme exploring infidelity and the history of rings.

  • Populism

    Wed 7 Feb 2018

    Are populist politics on the rise?

  • Stigma

    Wed 31 Jan 2018

    Stigma - an old sociological concept revisited and recast for the 21st century.

  • Countercultural seekers/ slum tourism.

    Wed 24 Jan 2018

    Counter cultural seekers and meaning of the hippy trail. Also, slum tourism in Mumbai.

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