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Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
27 September 2006
PERSISTENT CHANGE Laurie Taylor talks to Michael Savage, Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) and Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard about the obsession with change displayed by politicians, management consultants and even social scientists themselves. Does this obsession obscure the importance of continuity?
WORKING CLASS EDUCATION
Dr Gillian Evans Lecturer at Manchester University and Associate Lecturer at Brunel in Anthropology of Childhood talks about her thesis, Fur Coat: No Knickers. Her study of money and manners in a modern manor, examines the educational failure in working class neighbourhoods like Bermondsey, Southeast London and the discrepancies between what is expected of children at school and what is required of them at home and on the street.
Additional information:
Professor Michael Savage, Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)
Social change and the middle classes
Edited by Tim Butler and Mike Savage
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd - ISBN: 1857282728
Forthcoming book: Social change and class cultures in contemporary Britain
to be published by Open University Press, 2007
Culture and Continuity: Causal Structures in Socio-Cultural Persistence
Published in Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice
by Roger Friedland (Editor), John Mohr (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521795451
Dr Gillian Evans, Lecturer at Manchester University and Associate Lecturer at Brunel in Anthropology of Childhood
Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 1403992169
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