WHO GETS ON IN MODERN BRITAIN: breaking the class ceiling

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In this episode

Sociologist Sam Friedman has spent years exploring how class shapes our society. He argues Britain faces a powerful ‘class ceiling’ that affects who can access certain jobs and then progress in them. We chat to Sam about why that is and what we can do about it. Then Isabel Farchy from the Creative Mentor Network tells us how her charity is working to widen access to careers in the creative industries.

Guests

Sam Friedman (@SamFriedmanSoc), professor of sociology at LSE and co-author of The Class Ceiling

Isabel Farchy (@IsabelFarchy), founder and CEO of Creative Mentor Network

More info

The Class Ceiling

• Sam Friedman & Daniel Laurison: Why it pays to be privileged (Feb 2019)

• Sam Friedman & Daniel Laurison: 10 ways to break the class ceiling (Jan 2019)

• Guardian: Class of senior civil servants has barely changed since 1967 (May 2021)

• Social Mobility Commission: Progression in the civil service report (May 2021)

Deflecting privilege

• Friedman etc: Deflecting Privilege: class identity & the intergenerational self (2021)

• Sam Friedman/Guardian: Why do so many professional, middle-class Brits insist they're working class? (Jan 2021)

Creative Mentor Network

• Creative Mentor Network website

• Isabel Farchy: For creative diversity, we must go back to the beginning (Oct 2019)