Residing in school limbo – podcast | Class points

How a lot does the best way you converse outline your social class? What about your dad and mom’ jobs or your supply of revenue, education and housing?

The journalist and writer Danny Lavelle has lengthy been fascinated by the idea of sophistication due to the best way his life has unfolded. Transferring between foster care, college, sleeping tough and turning into an Orwell prize-winning author has led him to query how a lot the notion of sophistication will help us perceive life in Twenty first-century Britain.

Lavelle tells Helen Pidd about his experiences, whereas unpacking concepts round social signifiers, demographics and relationships to labour. They talk about how the thought of ‘working-class pursuits’ sits with the notion of individualism, and discover whether or not an individual’s high quality of life or way of life is extra vital than their class.

Lavelle, the writer of Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Disaster, talks about life on the streets and the influence of UK authorities cuts in a earlier episode of At the moment in Focus.

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