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Miranda Sawyer

The week in audio: Archive on 4; Black and Gay Back in the Day; My Life; Bible John; Jane Garvey and Fi Glover

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Lynsey Hanley, presenter of ‘excellently crafted’ Archive on 4: The Art of Habit.
Lynsey Hanley, presenter of the ‘excellently crafted’ Archive on 4: The Art of Habit. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer

Archive on 4: The Art of Habit (BBC Radio 4) | iPlayer
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Jane Garvey and Fi Glover Times Radio

A lovely Archive on 4 tonight, The Art of Habit, considered the greatest “ology”: sociology. Anyone who’s interested in people and how we live, or in interviews with non-famous people, is naturally interested in sociology, and the journalist Lynsey Hanley took us through how the discipline developed in the UK, its greatest moments, and how, in the 1980s, it was overtaken by a different university subject: economics. This last, combined with Margaret Thatcher’s disavowal of society, moved the focus to the individual, rather than groups, and sociology fell out of fashion. “If there’s no such thing as society, there’s no such thing as sociology,” said one expert.

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