Just a quick note about the lack of context in your average news story containing social science, and the most basic at that. Today’s Observer has a story about the credit crunch and driving lessons: apparently the tightening of mum’s purse means 17-year-olds aren’t getting driving lessons for their birthdays.
Figures from the Driver and Vehicle [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 31, 2008
Driving lessons
August 6, 2008
Class: Trevor Phillips breaks rank
A couple of weeks ago was some news I thought I’d never hear: someone in the higher echelons of our government / state said that ‘class’ was more important for inequality / life chances and so on, than other inequalities such as race and gender. Trevor Phillips broke rank with the Blairite rhetoric that we [...]
