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Thinking Allowed Episodes

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    The NHS

    The NHS and the 'sick note'.

  2. Protests

    Protests: from Occupy to MeToo and Iran.

  3. Gender and Alcohol

    Gender and alcohol - the craft drink scene and what constitutes a 'proper night out'?

  4. Futilitarianism - Extreme Pessimists

    Laurie Taylor talks to Neil Vallelly about current feelings of futility and uselessness.

  5. Rules and Order

    Are we are more orderly society than in the past?

  6. Gentrification revisited

    Exploring the myth and reality six decades after the term gentrification was coined.

  7. The Sea

    The Sea - the privatisation of our oceans and the threat of plastic pollution.

  8. Survival of the city

    Survival of the city: how do cities manage to thrive and re-invent in the face of threats?

  9. Package holidays and 'authentic' travel

    Package holidays and 鈥榓uthentic鈥� travel: Laurie Taylor on the origins of budget tourism.

  10. Shopping

    The history of the high street. Also, dreams of consumption.

  11. Ballroom dancing

    Ballroom dancing: its social history and sexual politics.

  12. Wealth - Plutocratic London

    Plutocratic London and dynastic wealth.

  13. Covid and change

    Covid: how has it changed our economy and home lives?

  14. Workplace Misbehaviour

    Workplace misbehaviour: how has it changed over the years?

  15. Psychiatry: a social history

    Psychiatry: Laurie Taylor explores the history of modern psychiatric practice.

  16. Prison Protest

    Prison protest: from riots to hunger strikes.

  17. Footwear

    Footwear: the 'magic' and the material reality.

  18. Strongmen

    Strongmen: what accounts for the global rise of authoritarian leaders?

  19. The Underclass

    The Underclass: its rise and fall.

  20. SKILL

    Laurie Taylor explores the social construction of the notion of skilled work.

  21. Extremism

    Extremism: going undercover with the far right, Islamists and anti feminists.

  22. Why Sociology Matters

    Why Sociology matters: an exploration of the meaning and purpose of Public Sociology.

  23. Strangers

    Strangers & Xenophobia: an exploration of a historically rooted phenomenon.

  24. Food, Identity & Nation

    Food, identity and nation - why food matters.

  25. The Value of Things

    The value of things: why do we hang on to objects?

  26. Covid

    Covid: Crisis or opportunity?

  27. Freedom

    Freedom: how it came to be equated with limited government and white people.

  28. Love and Romance

    Love and romance in changing times.

  29. Afghanistan

    Afghanistan: Afghan migrants in Britain. Also, the return of the Taliban.

  30. Office Life

    Office life: the evolution and meaning of the filing cabinet. Also, objects at work.

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