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Thinking Allowed: Racial inequality now, Women and political language

14/03/2018

Racial inequality now, Women and political language

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Racial inequality now. Also, women and political language.

Sociological discussion programme. Racial inequality now. Laurie Taylor asks if it is diminishing. Also, women and political language.

Racial inequality now - what explains its persistence? Nasar Meer, Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship at the University of Edinburgh asks why racial and ethnic disparities continue to be fundamental to our society. Also, women and political language. Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Oxford University, discusses her study of the speech styles of the leaders of the main political parties in the 2015 General Election. (The latter was a pre-recorded interview which was transmitted in an earlier Thinking Allowed. The billed interview with Miri Song, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, had to be abandoned due to problems with the line from America).
Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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