Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
25 February 2009 repeat 01 March
IMPACT OF RECESSION ON HEALTH INEQUALITIES Laurie Taylor is joined by Mel Bartley, Professor of Medical Sociology at University College London Medical School, and Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics at Warwick University to discuss the personal and psychological consequences of unemployment in the light of the current global recession.
YOUTH CULTURE Dr David Fowler, author of a new book entitled Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c1920-c.1970, talks about the meaning of ‘youth culture’. He contends that authentic youth movements have a philosophy and way of life; they do not simply celebrate consumerism and popular music.
Additional information:
Professor Mel Bartley Professor of Medical Sociology, International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London Medical School
Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods Publisher: Polity Press ISBN-10: 0745627803 ISBN-13: 978-0745627809
ESRC event Recession Health and Happiness Thursday, 26th February from 6.00 to 8.00pm Sixty One, Whitehall, Westminster, London SW1A 2ET free event, open to the public.
Dr David M. Fowler Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Clare Hall, Cambridge Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c1920-c.1970 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-10: 0333599225 ISBN-13: 978-0333599228
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