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Covid
Covid: Crisis or opportunity?
The Value of Things
The value of things: why do we hang on to objects?
Food, Identity & Nation
Food, identity and nation - why food matters.
Strangers
Strangers & Xenophobia: an exploration of a historically rooted phenomenon.
Why Sociology Matters
Why Sociology matters: an exploration of the meaning and purpose of Public Sociology.
Extremism
Extremism: going undercover with the far right, Islamists and anti feminists.
SKILL
Laurie Taylor explores the social construction of the notion of skilled work.
The Underclass
The Underclass: its rise and fall.
Strongmen
Strongmen: what accounts for the global rise of authoritarian leaders?
Footwear
Footwear: the 'magic' and the material reality.
Prison Protest
Prison protest: from riots to hunger strikes.
Psychiatry: a social history
Psychiatry: Laurie Taylor explores the history of modern psychiatric practice.
Workplace Misbehaviour
Workplace misbehaviour: how has it changed over the years?
Covid and change
Covid: how has it changed our economy and home lives?
Wealth - Plutocratic London
Plutocratic London and dynastic wealth.
Ballroom dancing
Ballroom dancing: its social history and sexual politics.
Shopping
The history of the high street. Also, dreams of consumption.
Package holidays and 'authentic' travel
Package holidays and 鈥榓uthentic鈥� travel: Laurie Taylor on the origins of budget tourism.
Survival of the city
Survival of the city: how do cities manage to thrive and re-invent in the face of threats?
The Sea
The Sea - the privatisation of our oceans and the threat of plastic pollution.
Gentrification revisited
Exploring the myth and reality six decades after the term gentrification was coined.
Rules and Order
Are we are more orderly society than in the past?
Futilitarianism - Extreme Pessimists
Laurie Taylor talks to Neil Vallelly about current feelings of futility and uselessness.
Gender and Alcohol
Gender and alcohol - the craft drink scene and what constitutes a 'proper night out'?
Protests
Protests: from Occupy to MeToo and Iran.
The NHS
The NHS and the 'sick note'.
The Internet - how it shapes the past and the future
The Internet - how it shapes our understanding of the past and the future.
The football pools - mass investment
Betting and investment - what are the connections and the differences?
Self-improvement
Self-improvement: are 'wellness' and 'confidence' cultures enhancing our lives?
Dirty Work
Dirty work - the invisible labour we choose not to see.
Parenting
Parenting - a cultural history.
