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Thinking Allowed: Success and Luck - Cosmopolitanism and Private Education

07/12/2016

Success and Luck - Cosmopolitanism and Private Education

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Success and Luck - Cosmopolitanism and Private Education

Success and luck. Also private school attitudes towards cosmopolitanism.

Sociological discussion programme, presented by Laurie Taylor. Success and luck and the myth of meritocracy. Also, do privately educated young women have a cosmopolitan world view?

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. Laurie Taylor talks to Robert H. Frank, Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, about the role luck has to play in life's successes, or failures. Frank argues that chance is much more significant than people give it credit for. Lynsey Hanley, writer and Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, joins the discussion. Also, Claire Maxwell, Reader of Sociology of Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, talks about her co-authored paper looking at the attitudes of privately-educated young women towards the idea of cosmopolitanism. Did they feel like global citizens, or were their aspirations confined to the local and the national?

Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

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