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Discuss: Housing for the working class
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Housing for the working class

...class. Fill in our short survey and share your thoughts and memories...[Terraced houses in Preston, Lancs] For the working class housing has always been a problem: bad landlords racking up the rent, cramped space, dirt and disrepair. Today, it’s harder than ever to get social housing, while for those working class people who have been able to ‘buy’, mortgages...
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Discuss: Representations of the working class
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Representations of the working class

...class in the media: stereotypes or accurate potrayals? Fill in our short survey and share your thoughts and memories...[Trotter's van from Only Fools and Horses] Until well into the twentieth century working class people were either invisible in fiction and drama or else shown as stereotypes: the unworthy and sometimes the worthy poor. But slowly from the 1950s more...
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Discuss: Working class leisure
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Working class leisure

...class people. Yet working class leisure activities had thrived over the years, from music hall to football to karaoke. Doing what you can with what you’ve got has often been the watchword. And we shouldn’t forget the gendering of leisure – women’s and girls sports for example, separated off from those of men. We'd like you to share your thoughts with us and with...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...Class and asks how the image of the bulldog breed turned into a narrative of feral children...Owen Jones has taken on a big job documenting the way most of the citizens of these islands are commonly portrayed. It’s a task long overdue given the changes that have turned "the salt of the earth" into the target of routine abuse by The Sun and Daily Mail, the patronised...
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Social housing and working class heritage
History & The Arts

Social housing and working class heritage

...class residents of one such estate fighting for its survival. By doing so, they may be challenging some of our fundamental assumptions and preconceptions about heritage. The album also contains academic perspectives from Rodney Harrison, Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University; and Alan Powers, Professor in Architecture and Cultural History at the University...
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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...classed as medical disorders and those who feel that there is a role for psychiatric diagnosis, but fear that too many human conditions are coming to be seen as illnesses rather than as problems in life. The first edition of the DSM, published in 1952, listed just over 100 mental disorders. By the fourth edition that list had almost tripled and the fifth edition...
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Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class
Society, Politics & Law

Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class

...class and intersectionality important to social research? This series of videos explores...In this series of videos, Umut Erel from The Open University discusses the topic of intersectionality and how it relates to social research with Tracey Reynolds, Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich, and Ann Phoenix, Professor of Psycho-Social Studies at...
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Discuss: Does work define your class position?
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Does work define your class position?

...class? Fill in our short survey and share your thoughts and memories...[John Woods of Tower Colliery] It is said that work defines the working class. In fact, according to Karl Marx’s classic analysis it is only through work that we can understand society, with its division between the working class and the capitalist class. The former works; the latter exploits...
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