John Curtice receives funding from UKRI-ESRC. Tim Bale has previously received funding for research on the Conservative Party and party members from the Leverhulme Trust and from the Economic and ...

A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's'Great British Class Survey'. Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. In this new book, Social ...

This article examines trends in assortative mating in Britain over the last 60 years. Assortative mating is the tendency for like to form a conjugal partnership with like. Our focus is on the ...

“BUILDING SOCIAL capital will not be easy, but it is the key to making democracy work,” wrote Robert Putnam, an American political scientist, in 1993. He found that places where people trust and ...

What is it about signet rings, the interviewee mused. “Clearly part of some family connection secret code that I’m excluded from.” For the anonymous interviewee of a scathing report into social class ...

It is an ideology that continues to grip millions, not least because of its piercing critique of capitalism. And Communism's founders, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, used the social conditions they ...

“I didn’t leave Labour. Labour left us,” is a common sentiment in working-class communities across Britain. Member of Parliament Jon Trickett discusses what might be done to win back workers. I have a ...

Imke Henkel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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