Thinking Allowed

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• Ethnography – What is it and why do we need it?

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• Perfect Body, Perfect Mind

  Heather Widdows on why society has come to value beauty above all else.

  Duration: 0:25

• Are you afraid of the dark?

  How has the way we react to darkness & light changed over the past 200 years?

  Duration: 4:04

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• The British Sociological Association special award for Thinking Allowed

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