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Thinking Allowed Episodes

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    Post-Truth

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

  2. Drifters

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

  3. Smart Cities

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

  4. Beauty - Ugliness

    Beauty and ugliness.

  5. Suburbia Revisited

    Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works.

  6. Selfies - disconnection from ICTs

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

  7. Gangs and spirituality

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

  8. China today

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

  9. Light and Dark

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

  10. Size Discrimination

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

  11. Business Schools

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

  12. Law and Order

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

  13. Marx and Marxism

    Marx and Marxism revisited.

  14. The Internet and Democracy

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

  15. Universal Basic Income

    Universal Basic Income - could it work?

  16. Menswear Revolution

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

  17. Winner of 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award

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

  18. Ethnography Award Shortlist 2018

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

  19. Mixed-race families

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

  20. Dating at university, Online dating

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

  21. Sacrifice

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

  22. Racial inequality now, Women and political language

    Racial inequality now. Also, women and political language.

  23. Women and democracy - the language of power

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

  24. The White Working Class.

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

  25. Artisanal food - Natural foods

    Artisanal and natural foods.

  26. A Valentine Day's special

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

  27. Populism

    Are populist politics on the rise?

  28. Stigma

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

  29. Countercultural seekers, Slum tourism

    Countercultural seekers on the road to Kathmandu and slum tourism in Mumbai.

  30. Police culture

    Police culture and socialisation - how has it changed?

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