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  • Bake Off 2018 certainly packs a strong middle class punch…

    Bake Off 2018 certainly packs a strong middle class punch…

    While there’s a lovely ethnic and gender diversity shine on this year’s Great British Bake Off pie, the social class balance is just way off! I’ve done a rough analysis of this year’s 2018 Bake Off contestants by social class background and compared these to the percentages of people working in different social class occupations…

  • Sociology on TV August – September 2016

    There’s a couple of really useful documentaries relevant to the crime and deviance module which have been on recently, which you might want to grab for college estream if you teach Sociology – As I see it you can get a good three-five years out of a good documentary. Life Inside Wandsworth Prison demonstrates how…

  • Mary Berry’s Cultural Capital and Gregg Wallace’s Love of Sociology

    Mary Berry’s recent comments against deep fat fryers and Jaffa cake dunking could be interpreted (using Bourdieu) as an example of the unconscious process through which the middle classes assert and maintain their superiority by defining working class practices as ‘bad taste’ and ‘unhealthy’. Gregg Wallace picked up on this with his comments about Berry’s attack…