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Mobility to Higher Education
Laurie Taylor is at the University of Bedfordshire to discuss class and social mobility.
Bourgeois Power and Marriage
Was marrying within the family key to success of the ruling classes in Victorian England?
Prison Clothing - Lewes Arms Boycott
Laurie Taylor explores the history of prison clothing, and the power of the boycott.
Solo Living - Response to Wall Street
Why are more people living on their own and what are the consequences for society?
Anthropology of Wall Street - Rural Idyll
Laurie Taylor talks to the anthroplogist who spent a year studying Wall Street.
E-Elections - Jazz
Will UK party politics be transformed by new media and digital technology?
White Collar Crime: Punishment of Crime
3/3 Laurie Taylor explores the punishment of white collar crime.
White Collar Crime: Regulation of Crime
2/3 Why has corporate crime had such a low priority?
White Collar Crime: Culture of Crime
1/3 Laurie Taylor explores white collar crime. What exactly is it, who commits it and why?
Organ Donation - Flip Flops
The social and cultural influences on bereaved families' decisions to donate organs.
