Wednesday 16:00-16:30
Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
24 May 2006
BRITISH CHINESE PUPILS
The British Chinese are the highest achieving group of pupils in the UK, but very little is known about what factors lead to such high achievement. How important a stimulus is competition and how do they cope with this?
Dr Louise Archer, Reader in Education Policy Studies at Kings College, London talks about her research which explores the role of social class in relation to their identities, educational experiences and their success.
SUDDEN DEATHS
In the US, both medical examiners and homicide detectives work closely with death every day. What pressure are they under to bend the rules? What assumptions do they make about the dead they deal with? And what challenges are faced by sociologists who want to study them?
Laurie Taylor is joined by Stefan Timmermans Professor of Sociology and author of Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths and Dr Louise Westmarland who is currently undertaking a project comparing the way homicides are recorded and reported in the UK and the US.
Additional information:
Dr Louise Archer, Reader in Education Policy Studies at Kings College, London
Challenging Classes? Exploring the Role of Social Class within the Identities and Achievement of British Chinese Pupils by Archer, L. & Francis B. (2006)
published in Sociology 40, (1), pp.29-49
