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Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works and discusses current ideas on how we live today. Primary Format : Talk Language : Unknown Also Listed as: State/Province : ENG Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Thinking Allowed Podcasts Methings.com listings of Thinking Allowed Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Thinking Allowed TA: White Collar Crime 1: The Culture of the Crime Do we turn a blind eye to white collar crime? In the first of a special series Laurie explores what lies behind the extremely low clear up rate for fraud, and discovers the cultural factors that underly corporate crime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TA: Organ Donation & Flip flops The flip flop is the highest selling piece of footwear in the world, worn by rich and poor. Laurie Taylor is joined by sociology professor, Caroline Knowles, who has traced its journey from the plastics factories of China to the cities of Ethiopia. They discuss why this seemingly insignificant sandal can tell us the bigger picture of Chinese industrialisation, mass migration and economic divisions across the world. New research on the cultural influences on people who choose not to dona ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TA: Suburbia & Forgetting Laurie Taylor discusses the enduring appeal of Suburbia. 3 out of 4 British people live there, yet the term 'suburban' can be a short hand for small mindedness and lack of individuality. According to the writer Paul Barker, planners and architects deride suburbia, but many are drawn to its safety, space and freedom. Also Lynsey Hanley, author of Estates: An Intimate History, will be comparing suburban existence to life on a housing estate. Also why modernity and forgetfulness go hand in ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TA: Grave Goods & Politics of Alcohol From jewellery, photos, hats, glasses, and even food, drink and tobacco what do the objects we choose to leave in the coffins of loved ones tell us about the ritual of death and mourning? Laurie Taylor discusses modern day grave goods with Sheila Harper and Duncan Sayer from the Centre for Death and Society in Bath. why do we leave equipment that might be needed in an afterlife like glasses or walking sticks? Also – alcohol as a lens to understand social change. The links between ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TA: American prisons and classification Laurie Taylor talks to Loic Wacquant, one of America's leading sociologists about why he believes America's social state is withering at the expense of its expanding prison system and why the UK could also be heading in the same direction. Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law at the London School of Economics joins to discuss whether the UK at risk of becoming overly dependent on prisons while eroding its welfare system? Also are your books filed alphabetically; colour coded, or strictly ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website