Dwelling at school limbo – podcast | Class points

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

The journalist and creator Danny Lavelle has lengthy been fascinated by the idea of sophistication due to the way in which his life has unfolded. Transferring between foster care, college, sleeping tough and changing into an Orwell prize-winning author has led him to query how a lot the notion of sophistication may 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 concept 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 essential than their class.

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

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