Richard Hoggart; The Anti-Social Family
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Richard Hoggart: Laurie Taylor talks to Professor of Cultural Studies, Fred Inglis, about his biography of this leading cultural commentator and academic. Hoggart's 1957 book 'The Uses of Literacy' documented the lives and hardships of the life of the poor in pre-World War Britain as well as providing an account of the transition from working class to 'mass' culture in the post War period. Inglis considers some of Hoggart's key ideas including his emphasis on working class community and family life as a source of support and sanctuary. Also, the sociology of the family, then and now. Hoggart's views about the family form part of an ongoing sociological debate to which the late Mary McIntosh made a major contribution. Professor of Sociology, Carol Smart, pays tribute to her classic 1982 book 'The Anti Social Family' which offered a socialist and feminist critique of the traditional nuclear family, arguing that it was as often a site of inequality and conflict as of refuge, particularly for women. Deborah Chambers, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, joins the debate.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 1:12.0 | You know, back in the 50s, that's one of Britain's most popular radio program and its catchphrases were common currency. |
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| 1:23.1 | Mabel something like that what's on the table |
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| 1:28.8 | house have a go was regarded as subversive it was a sort of germ that could fatally infect our |
| 1:34.8 | respectability. It was in my mother's all-person epithet, the pubs, darts, |
| 1:39.0 | greyhounds, fish and ships, Blackpool in the Daily Mirror, it was common. Well only when I was at college in the Daily Mirror, it was common. |
| 1:43.0 | Well, only when I was at college in the early 60s and first read Richard Hoggett's uses of literacy |
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