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The ERA Video Streaming Platform | Sociology

Youth Cultures

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Changing youth cultures

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Episode 2 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

Episode 2 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

BBC Two | 2022 | 59'42''

Amol Rajan looks at solutions to Britain's class inequality problem. How can employers and policy makers ensure a level playing fi...

Episode 1 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

Episode 1 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

BBC Two | 2022 | 58'37''

How can working class students break through the barriers to landing Britain's elite jobs? Amol Rajan investigates the tips and tr...

Views on LGBTQ in Black and Asian Communities | Reggie Yates' Extreme

Views on LGBTQ in Black and Asian Communities | Reggie Yates' Extreme

BBC One | 2015 | 26'12''

Exploration of views about homosexuality in black and Asian communities, the role of religion in determ...

The TikTok Effect

The TikTok Effect

BBC Three | 2023 | 52'54''

What connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, antisocial behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence they are all exampl...

The Rise of the Hoodies | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

The Rise of the Hoodies | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

BBC Two | 2010 | 4'47''

During the 2000s anti-social behaviour rose, hoodies became popular amongst young people and were banned...

The Baby Gap | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

The Baby Gap | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

BBC Two | 2010 | 2'11''

A brief summary of the trend of women having children later but then experiencing challenges of not being able to h...

Growing Young | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

Growing Young | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

BBC Two | 2010 | 59'06''

A look back over the last decade. During the Noughties, an ageing Britain became obsessed with recapturing its you...

How to Break into the Elite

How to Break into the Elite

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'07''

Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...

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Sub cultures

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4: Glasgow - Dying Young | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

4: Glasgow - Dying Young | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

BBC Scotland | 2019 | 28'58''

In Scotland's largest city, one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it is called the Glasgow effect....

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 27'59''

Graeme explores the Wyndford Scheme in Maryhill and travels to Glencoe to meet a man who, like himself, managed to turn his life around and leave ga...

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 27'59''

Graeme focuses on what happens when gang life begins to go wrong. Sharing deeply personal stories, Graeme engages with police and reformed gang memb...

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 28'00''

Ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong tries to understand why young people are seduced by the perceived glamour and excitement of gang.

3: Corruption and Conviction | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

3: Corruption and Conviction | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

BBC One | 2018 | 58'59''

Documentary series examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The public inquiry leads to a change in...

2: The System | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

2: The System | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

BBC One | 2018 | 59'01''

Documentary series examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Doreen and Neville Lawrence launch a private murder pr...

1: The Loss of Joy | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

1: The Loss of Joy | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

BBC One | 2018 | 58'27''

Documentary series examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The first episode focuses on the run-up to Stephe...

Reggie Yates: Teen Gangs

Reggie Yates: Teen Gangs

BBC Three | 2012 | 56'59''

TV presenter and Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates explores the culture of fear, anger and violence which drives the dangerous world of teenage gangs.

S1E1: Heroin Town | Louis Theroux: Dark States

S1E1: Heroin Town | Louis Theroux: Dark States

BBC Two | 2017 | 59'10''

Louis Theroux embeds himself in a West Virginian community devastated by heroin abuse. He spends time with addicts and follows...

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth | Louis Theroux

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth | Louis Theroux

BBC Two | 2009 | 56'47''

Documentary in which Louis Theroux visits Fresno in California's Central Valley to see how crystal meth addiction affects t...

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 3 | Street Gangs

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 3 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 21'10''

Community outreach programmes trying to support young people from gang life and crime. Challenges of life after prison.

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 2 | Street Gangs

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 2 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 26'16''

An exploration of further reasons young people join gangs, attachment, sense of belonging, relative deprivation, social medi...

Drill On Trial

Drill On Trial

BBC Three | 2023 | 57'14''

Radio 1Xtra DJ Tiffany Calver explores the response to UK drill - a popular but controversial genre of rap - by the authorities, who blame it for a rise in vi...

Radicalisation of Young Men Online | Inside The Secret World Of Incels

Radicalisation of Young Men Online | Inside The Secret World Of Incels

BBC One | 2019 | 8'35''

An exploration asking does violence online lead to violence offline?<br><br><strong>(Contains sensitiv...

School Exclusion at Primary | Don't Exclude Me

School Exclusion at Primary | Don't Exclude Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 11'12''

This short clip shows the pressures on schools to manage challenging behaviour.

The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts

The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts

BBC Four | 2016 | 58'58''

Don Letts explores how the skinhead subculture has become associated with street fighting and racism, but had its origins in a moment ...

Episode 1 | Prejudice And Pride: The People's History Of LGBTQ Britain

Episode 1 | Prejudice And Pride: The People's History Of LGBTQ Britain

BBC Four | 2017 | 59'26''

Ordinary people share the objects that have helped define their lives since homosexuality was decrimin...

Hip Hop's Association with Violence | imagine...

Hip Hop's Association with Violence | imagine...

BBC One | 2003 | 17'31''

An exploration of the emergence of hip hop in America, its association with violence and how it influenced the music scene w...

Three Girls and Three Babies | The Trouble With Girls

Three Girls and Three Babies | The Trouble With Girls

BBC Two | 2009 | 59'28''

Documentary following friends Becki, Stacey and Vanessa, three 16-year-old girls from Rochdale. Three pregnancies chang...

Sexuality And Stereotypes | Mobeen Azhar

Sexuality And Stereotypes | Mobeen Azhar

BBC Asian Network | 2019 | 2'09'59''

How true is my sexuality to the stereotype?

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The formation of youth cultures

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Aylesbury Prison: Episode 2 | The Choir

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 2 | The Choir

BBC Two | 2020 | 59'05''

With just three weeks to go, Gareth has only seven performers and a handful of half-baked songs. Gareth is still hoping to get a perf...

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 1 | The Choir

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 1 | The Choir

BBC Two | 2020 | 58'51''

Gareth Malone faces a challenge which will test him like no other - to form a choir in one of the toughest prisons for young offender...

Russia: 3: Teen Model Factory | Reggie Yates' Extreme

Russia: 3: Teen Model Factory | Reggie Yates' Extreme

BBC Three | 2015 | 56'49''

Reggie Yates visits Siberia to meet the young girls who are going to extreme lengths to attract the international scout...

Episode 8 | Back in Time for School

Episode 8 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'58''

Our class return for one final adventure. Reflecting on the past 100 years, they venture beyond, into a future filled with virtual classr...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'01''

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Episode 7 | Back in Time for School

Episode 7 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'04''

The pupils and teachers arrive in their final time-travelling decade, the 1990s, ready to embrace girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur, M...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'44''

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'58''

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'36''

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'40''

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'41''

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

Moral Panics | Moral Maze

Moral Panics | Moral Maze

BBC Radio 4 | 2019 | 42'20''

Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Anne McElvoy, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and Tim Stanley.

5: I'm On The Pavement Thinking About The Government | Almost Grown

5: I'm On The Pavement Thinking About The Government | Almost Grown

BBC Two | 1990 | 39'22''

This episode looks at the teenager as a force for political change, including black consciousness, femini...

3: People Try To Put Us Down | Almost Grown

3: People Try To Put Us Down | Almost Grown

BBC Two | 1990 | 39'23''

Looking at youth cultures of the 50's and 60's - teddy boys, beatniks, mods, rockers, hippies, Hells Angels, skinheads - their id...

4: Doowutchyalike | Almost Grown

4: Doowutchyalike | Almost Grown

BBC Two | 1990 | 39'17''

With Bowie Freaks, Punks and New Romantic's, styles became more weird and changed frequently. This program looks at how cults form styles an...

The Future | Back in Time for the Weekend

The Future | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'46''

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. In the final episode, they discover what the future might h...

The 90s | Back in Time for the Weekend

The 90s | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'58''

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family enter the 90s, where new technology arrives at a di...

The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'58''

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominated ou...

The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'54''

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. Rob and Steph share more time together, playing darts with Eri...

The 60s | Back in Time for the Weekend

The 60s | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'44''

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 60s, there's more fun to be had - a trip t...

Moral Panics – The Agony And The Ecstasy | The Learning Zone

Moral Panics – The Agony And The Ecstasy | The Learning Zone

Media | BBC Two | 2000 | 29'14''

This programme shows examples of how the media has responded to youth sub-cultures in the past and how, de...

Britain’s Teenage Drug Runners

Britain’s Teenage Drug Runners

Age and social inequality | BBC Three | 2017 | 46'37''

With astonishing access, BBC Three explores how gang members are using teenage drug runners to sell large amounts of crack and heroin mi...

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Crime and Deviance | BBC One | 2025 | 58'51''

Idris Elba confronts the reality of knife crime, speaking to those most affected - from the streets to the system - in a quest to uncover ...

Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones

Beliefs in Society | BBC Two | 1986 | 23'19''

A play for children about a boy who moves from Glasgow with his mother to London and the problems he has in settling down to a new life and his difficultie...

The Role of the Media | Children Of Drugs

The Role of the Media | Children Of Drugs

Changing Awareness of Crime | BBC One Wales | 2000 | 37'06''

The story of Leah Betts, an 18 year old who died from taking an ecstasy tablet on her 18th birthday in 1995. Explores the role of t...

Gang Culture in London and the USA | Mischief

Gang Culture in London and the USA | Mischief

Sociology | BBC Three | 2008 | 13'00''

An exploration of the reasons why young people may join gangs in London and in the USA and how some individuals are trying to s...

Hoodies and Antisocial Behaviour | Mischief

Hoodies and Antisocial Behaviour | Mischief

Sociology | BBC Three | 2008 | 7'10''

An exploration of how the hoodie has become associated with gangs and antisocial behaviour. How they have added to the fear of cr...

I Am Andrew Tate

I Am Andrew Tate

Crime and Deviance | Channel 4 | 2024 | 1'08'15''

The explosive story of one of the world's most infamous and controversial internet stars' rise, arrest and fall.

Stabbed: Britain’s Knife Crime Crisis

Stabbed: Britain’s Knife Crime Crisis

Crime and Deviance | BBC One | 2019 | 57'33''

Twenty-five years after the murder of his friend Stephen Lawrence, Duwayne Brooks explores the current wave of knife crime and th...

Episode 1 | Don’t Exclude Me

Episode 1 | Don’t Exclude Me

Age and social inequality | BBC Two | 2021 | 59'25''

With school exclusions at their highest in a decade, behavioural expert Marie Gentles visits Milton Hall Primary School in Southend to hel...

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

Acquiring Culture | BBC Three | 2019 | 49'31''

A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...

Drill Music | Inside Out London

Drill Music | Inside Out London

Sociology | BBC One | 2018 | 10'08''

Sean Fletcher finds out how drill music - criticised for inciting youth violence - is helping kids at risk.

Insane Fight Club

Insane Fight Club

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 2014 | 59'15''

Documentary charting the rise of the brutal, riotous and chaotic fight club that is taking over the streets of Glasgow.

Generation Grime

Generation Grime

Acquiring Culture | BBC Radio 4 | 2017 | 27'36''

Once an underground London sound, Grime has had a huge impact on youth culture. This programme follows Welsh act Astroid Boys on their recent tour.

Criminal Records? | File on 4

Criminal Records? | File on 4

Crime and Deviance | BBC Radio 4 | 2018 | 37'13''

Is social media fuelling a spate of violent deaths in Britain? Police and victims' families claim 'drill' music - and social media - are contri...

A Day In The Life Of A Tweenager | Little Women

A Day In The Life Of A Tweenager | Little Women

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2001 | 49'13''

Documentary about a new generation of pre-teen girls ,aged between 7-11 years old but who possess the confidence ,sense of st...

Silent Roars | Listen To Britain 2017

Silent Roars | Listen To Britain 2017

Acquiring Culture | BBC Four | 2017 | 10'05''

Four of the internet's biggest female stars reveal how their followers are shaping them.

Subcultures | Thinking Allowed

Subcultures | Thinking Allowed

Acquiring Culture | BBC Radio 4 | 2010 | 28'04''

How much do the pop infatuations of teen girls have in common with the cult of death metal? Laurie Taylor finds out from young delegates to a ...

Nationhood; Recognising Transgender | Thinking Allowed

Nationhood; Recognising Transgender | Thinking Allowed

Beliefs in Society | BBC Radio 4 | 2012 | 27'59''

Laurie Taylor meets the winners of sociology's first book prize. He discusses body modifications chosen by transgender...

Hoodies Can Be Goodies | Mischief

Hoodies Can Be Goodies | Mischief

Age and stratification | BBC Three | 2008 | 56'32''

Garron Mitchell sets out to try and rehabilitate the image of the hoodie, but can he convince middle England that hoodies can be goodies?

Episode 2 | Prejudice And Pride: The People’s History Of LGBTQ Britain

Episode 2 | Prejudice And Pride: The People’s History Of LGBTQ Britain

Acquiring Culture | BBC Four | 2017 | 59'06''

Ordinary people share the objects that have helped define their lives since homosexuality was de...

Face In The Crowd: Paul Betts | Real Lives

Face In The Crowd: Paul Betts | Real Lives

Acquiring Culture | BBC Three | 1998 | 28'31''

Documentary which meets Paul Betts, whose daughter Leah Betts died after taking ecstasy. Paul discusses his determination to help ...

A Polemic Crime | The Trouble With Black Men

A Polemic Crime | The Trouble With Black Men

Ethnicity and stratification | BBC Three | 2004 | 58'02''

David Matthews investigates issues facing British black men. During the 1970s and 80s black youth culture embraced rebellion aga...

Internet Influencers And Generation Gaps | Start The Week

Internet Influencers And Generation Gaps | Start The Week

Acquiring Culture | BBC Radio 4 | 2021 | 42'13''

Olivia Yallop, Sarah Ogilvie and Bobby Duffy discuss generational divides and the power of the internet influencers...

Born With It | Deeply Human

Born With It | Deeply Human

Media | BBC World Service | 2022 | 23'00''

Why are we so judgemental about how others beautify themselves?

City Boy Fight Club

City Boy Fight Club

Acquiring Culture | BBC Three | 2017 | 21'58''

The subculture of white collar boxing has exploded in Britain recently. This film follows Josh and Challon as they square up to each other for the second...

Leah Betts: The Girl Next Door | Children Of Drugs

Leah Betts: The Girl Next Door | Children Of Drugs

Family and Households | BBC One | 2000 | 48'35''

First of a three part series offering an insight into the world of drug use among young people. This prog examines the cas...

Butch

Butch

Acquiring Culture | BBC Radio 4 | 2020 | 27'47''

What does it mean to call yourself a 'butch' lesbian - and is the term falling away? Poet Joelle Taylor celebrates ‘being butch' and explores its rich meaning for her ...

The Hip Hop Generation | Imagine…

The Hip Hop Generation | Imagine…

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 2003 | 51'16''

Hip-hop has become a global youth culture. But why does the voice of young black America resonate equally with British teenagers from...

The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

Age and stratification | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'59''

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen TV an...

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