BOUNCERS and THE NIGHT-TIME ECONOMY
Laurie Taylor takes a walk on the wild side as he talks to Criminology Professors, Ìýand Geoff Pearson, about the UK’s burgeoning night-time economy.
With a major change in licensing laws currently going through Parliament, liberalisation has already led to a creeping expansion of all-night pubs and clubs in town centres.Ìý
While this new economic sector offers much needed employment, it also increases levels of disorder and violence on the street.
In this world bouncers are the kings of the sidewalks but unlike the police, these privatised peace-keepers are commercially motivated and their behaviour is relatively unregulated – so how well can the two forces work together?
CULTURE and CLASS
The idea of a classless society remains just that, an idea.Ìý
Laurie Taylor hears about the contrasting receptions of working class hen parties and the antics of the middle-class heroines of Sex and the City when he talks to Sociology Professor, , about cultural resources. Who can capitalise on them and who cannot?
Additional Information
Dick Hobbs
Professor of Sociology and Criminologist
Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)
Oxford University Press
ISBN 0199252246
Geoff Pearson
Professor of Criminology at Goldsmiths College, University of London
Beverley Skeggs
Head of Department of Sociology
Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable (Theory, Culture and Society)
Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN 0761955127
Matter out of place: visibility and sexualities in leisure spaces
1999, Leisure Studies: The Journal of the Leisure Studies Association, 18, 3.
The appearance of class: challenges in gay space
in Cultural studies and the working class: Subject to Change
Edited by Sally R.Munt
Continuum International Publishing Group - Academic and Professional
ISBN 0304705497
The Â鶹Éç is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
|
