Synopsis
Laurie Taylor discusses the largest ever survey of UK levels of deprivation. Plus new research on people who choose unemployment rather than undesirable jobs.
- Programme: Thinking Allowed
- Episode: Poverty In Britain; Unemployment As A Choice
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Broadcast year: 2015
- Sociology | How are youth subcultures formed? Why do they develop? | Theoretical views of the role of youth culture and subcultures: functionalism, Marxism/neo-Marxism, feminism, postmodernism. Subcultures.
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