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...classes have a detectable impact on weight among children, perhaps because these substitute alternative forms of physical activity. But enabling children to do physical exercise is a good thing in itself, irrespective of the effect it might have on weight. Infrastructure Geraint Johnes, professor of economics, Lancaster University The Chancellor’s announcements on...

...class identity. In that context, Welsh was a hindrance rather than a help to calls for the workers of the world to unite. So while the language now occupies an official status equal to that of English and is a compulsory subject in schools, today only 19 per cent of those living in Wales speak it, according to the 2011 census. That is certainly far more than speak Gaelic...

...classed as ‘work’. What is your role? If you work in an organisation, what is your role within that? If you don’t, what is your role in your family, your community or society? What are the roles of different types of organisation within the voluntary sector? The concept of role is key to understanding organisations. Many of the topics covered in this course are...

...classes and age groups, and brought them into the criminal justice system. It was argued that states and others thus not only portrayed them as the main cause of crime, but deployed resources to their criminalisation. Thus these state and media processes were seen to criminalise certain groups and not others, while attention was argued to be deflected from the...