Making Social Worlds - for iPod/iPhone

Making Social Worlds - for iPod/iPhone

50 episodes

How does society create and control our social world? How do passports and passbooks function as agents of government control? And what are the purposes of citizenship tests and ceremonies? This album provides insight into how large communities are organised to regulate their social behaviour. People who lived under Apartheid in South Africa describe how their passbook governed their social world, from alcohol consumption to medical health. Philosophers, politicians and academics offer differing perspectives on requirements for citizenship and the importance of citizenship ceremonies in the UK and Australia. In the two audio tracks, course team members Liz McFall and Sophie Watson put the ideas covered in the album into their academic context. This material is taken from The Open University course DD308 Making social worlds.

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Making social worlds

Published: Feb. 11, 2010, 2:28 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds

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Transcript -- Making social worlds

Published: Feb. 11, 2010, 2:28 a.m.
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South African passbooks

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds

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Transcript -- South African passbooks

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Classifying races

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 34 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Held hostage to a passbook

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Humiliation of the red stamp

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds

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Finding work

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Fear of forgetting

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Green IDs and liquor quotas

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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The waiting game

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds

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British citizenship ceremony

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds

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Transcript -- The waiting game

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Transcript -- British citizenship ceremony

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Why ceremony?

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 51 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Inclusion ceremonies

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 46 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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What is Britishness?

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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The importance of language

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Changes in policy

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 5 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Migrant labour

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Freedom of speech

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Australian citizenship ceremony

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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The past politics of Australian citizenship

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Four groups migrate to Australia

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 52 seconds

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Transcript -- Four groups migrate to Australia

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Language limitations

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Keep multiculturalism

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds

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Transcript -- Keep multiculturalism

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
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Embracing Australian culture

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds

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Transcript -- Embracing Australian culture

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:51 a.m.
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An academic perspective on passports

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:51 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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Published: June 2, 2008, 12:51 a.m.
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An academic perspective on citizenship

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:51 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

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Transcript -- An academic perspective on citizenship

Published: June 2, 2008, 12:50 a.m.
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