Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
29 August 2007 repeat 02 September
THE GENERATION GAP
Laurie Taylor presents a special series of three programmes to examine the social gaps which most concern researchers in today’s divided Britain: the residential gap, the generation gap and the class gap.
Laurie is joined by two policy makers throughout the series, the Conservative MP David Willetts and the Labour MP Frank Field; in this second part they discuss the generation gap together with two distinguished social scientists Professor Frank Furedi and Professor Rachel Thomson.
The generation gap might not be so readily quantifiable but there is a sense of new and possibly growing divisions between children and parents. Laurie debates what evidence would serve as proof of that intuition?
This week’s guests:
Conservative MP David Willetts Member of Parliament for Havant; Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Labour MP Frank Field One-time Minister of Welfare Reform in Tony Blair’s government and author of several books and pamphlets on social policy
Frank Furedi Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent
Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child Publisher: A Cappella Books,U.S. ISBN-10: 1556524641 ISBN-13: 978-1556524646
Rachel Thomson Professor of Social Research, in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University and Director of a longitudinal study of eleven to seventeen year olds called Youth Transitions and Social Change.
Inventing Adulthoods:A Biographical Approach to Youth Transitions by Sheila J. Henderson, Janet Holland, Sheena McGrellis, Sue Sharpe, Rachel Thomson Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd ISBN-10: 1412930693 ISBN-13: 978-1412930697
