Synopsis
Documentary about child poverty. In Glasgow, Mansfield and London, children show the courage and determination to rise above their circumstances and break out of the poverty trap.
- Programme: Born Survivors
- Series: 1
- Episode: Growing Up Skint
- Channel: BBC Three
- Broadcast year: 2007
- Sociology | How can patterns and trends in social inequality and difference be explained? | Sociological explanations of social inequalities: functionalism, Marxism, feminism, Weberian
Licence: ERA Licence required
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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