Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
02 July 2008 repeat 06 July
TRUST Laurie Taylor talks to the 2002 Reith Lecturer Onora O’Neill and to Marek Kohn, author of a new book called Trust; Self Interest and the Common Good. Is trust evaporating in contemporary society? Does more monitoring of people and politicians increase trust or encourages paranoia?
Additional information:
Marek Kohn Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Life Science, University of Sussex, and Honorary Faculty Fellow, School of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton
Trust: Self interest and the Common Good Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN-10: 0199217912 ISBN-13: 978-0199217915
Due to a technical problem we were not able to conduct the interview on violence in pubs with Belinda Winder Head of the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University
Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory by Randall Collins Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN-10: 0691133131 ISBN-13: 978-0691133133
Thinking Allowed: Imagination and the City In Association with the Open University Hosted by Laurie Taylor with Will Self
How does the way we imagine the city match up to the realities of urban life? How is our experience of the city, affected by the ideas, fears and fantasies we have about it? When crime statistics say one thing and fear says another, what kind of social reality does the fantasy create?
Join the debate and have your say as social science meets art, and Will Self, novelist and ‘psychogeographer' faces urban sociologists and city ethnographers to discuss the role of the imagination in the reality of city life.
Recording on: 24 July 2008 at 2pm Venue: BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA Tickets available by calling: 0370 901 1227 or from this website Tickets for BBC Shows
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