Understanding Social Change - Audio

Shift in kinds of people working and work they do. Does ‘flexible’ employment mean more insecure employment? Consequences of opening up the market to global competition.

Transcript -- Work - who does what?

Mar 11th, 2009

Transcript -- Shift in kinds of people working and work they do. Does ‘flexible’ employment mean more insecure employment? Consequences of opening up the market to global competition.

Promoting welfare - the government's role

Mar 11th, 2009 8m 4s

Intention of the Labour government to counter social exclusion by promoting employment through enabling state. Considering family as area of continuity but forms of family are more varied. Has the welfare system caught up with this change in f

Transcript -- Promoting welfare - the government's role

Mar 11th, 2009

Transcript -- Intention of the Labour government to counter social exclusion by promoting employment through enabling state. Considering family as area of continuity but forms of family are more varied. Has the welfare system caught up with th

Divided Society

Mar 11th, 2009 6m 56s

Divides between rich and poor, spatial and rural/urban divides.

Transcript -- Divided Society

Mar 11th, 2009

Transcript -- Divides between rich and poor, spatial and rural/urban divides.

New Labour, new society?

Mar 11th, 2009 5m 40s

Under New Labour, things have improved but only for some sections of society. Rising inequalities and uncertainties about issues such as pensions.

Transcript -- New Labour, new society?

Mar 11th, 2009

Transcript -- Under New Labour, things have improved but only for some sections of society. Rising inequalities and uncertainties about issues such as pensions.

Globalisation - what is it?

Mar 11th, 2009 7m 2s

Changing Definitions of Globalisation, the impact of culture, economics and politics. Globablisation undermining the nation state.

Transcript -- Globalisation - what is it?

Mar 11th, 2009

Transcript -- Changing Definitions of Globalisation, the impact of culture, economics and politics. Globablisation undermining the nation state.

Globalist views

Mar 11th, 2009 5m 5s

Positive and negative globalist views and consequences of free economic market through deregulation of control.

Transcript -- Globalist views

Mar 11th, 2009

Transcript -- Positive and negative globalist views and consequences of free economic market through deregulation of control.

Internationalist views

Mar 11th, 2009 5m 27s

The importance of nation states instead of an inseparable global market. Transformationalist perspective combines aspects of internationalist and globalist approaches.

Internationalist views

Mar 11th, 2009 5m 27s

The importance of nation states instead of an inseparable global market. Transformationalist perspective combines aspects of internationalist and globalist approaches.