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Are You Where You Live? Software, Space and Social Class – Brighton Festival Fringe event

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Published 9 May 2011
Event 25 May 2011

Professor Roger Burrows
Department of Sociology, University of York

Definitions of social class are increasingly changing from those based on occupation and employment to those based on geographic location.

This lecture examines how both social scientists and commercial researchers are using software tools focused on factors such as post code to identify and understand contemporary communities of similar individuals.

Are we truly to be identified by where we live?

Wednesday 25 May 2011 at 6pm
Room 218, Checkland Building,
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH

This event is this year's annual social science public lecture, and is part of the Brighton Festival Fringe.

 

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