Changing Values and Identities: Understanding Change in Comparative and Longitudinal Perspectives
Monday 15th January 2007
The Studio, Dover Street Building, Manchester
For more details, please contact Kingsley Prudam
Programme
9.30am Tea and coffee
10.00am Welcome and introduction
Fiona Devine and Mike Savage, (Sociology/CRESC, Manchester)
10.15am Politics and parties: neglected aspects of postmaterial value change
Mark Western and Bill Tranter (Social Research Centre, Queensland, Australia)
Discussant : Jane Green (Politics/CCSR, Manchester)
11.30am Coffee
11.45am Are traditional identities in decline? Class, party, religious and national identities, 1964-2005
Anthony Heath (Sociology, Oxford)
Discussant: Nick Crossley (Sociology, Manchester)
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Has there been culture shifts in Britain?: A critical encounter with Ronald Inglehart Shinobu Majima and Mike Savage (CRESC/Sociology, Manchester)
Discussant: Andrew Russell (Politics, Manchester)
3.15pm Tea
3.30pm Attitudes and values in longitudinal perspective: Issues from the National Child Development Study (NCDS)
Jane Elliott (Institute for Education, London)
Discussant: Kingsley Purdam, (CCSR, Manchester)
4.30pm Close