Social Sciences

‘Social groups form around attractive women while shirkers stick close to others’

‘Decades of educational expansion and reform have had little effect on social mobility’ Dr John Goldthorpe gives inaugural British Academy Sociology Lecture

History sheds light on George Osborne’s current dilemmas over the next budget

Workers ranked as being in the middle put in least effort afterwards.

Researchers measure how ranking affects later performance

Pension cuts 'linked' with death rates among those aged 85 and over

Pension cuts have 'significant link' with death rates among older pensioners

More people are falling down the social ladder.

Decades of educational expansion 'had little effect on social mobility'

Migrant women speak out about working life in the UK over the last 60 years

Crop of wheat

Study lays out effects of climate change on food production and health

Young migrants from Central and Eastern Europe ‘the hardest working in the UK’

congestion

Home counties blamed for car pollution in the southeast

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