Social Worlds in 100 Objects, Themes and Ideas

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B

  • Banknote - The banknote: a symbol of trust?
  • Baseball cap - The baseball cap: a symbol of pathological consumption?
  • Bottle of water - The bottle of water: what does it mean to commodify a natural resource?
  • Breasts - Breasts: a new commodity?

C

  • Cage - The cage: protecting animals from liberation?
  • Census form - The census form
  • Clock - The clock: a true measurement of time?
  • Cotton Bobbin - The cotton bobbin: symbolic of a lost heritage?
  • Curriculum vitae - The curriculum vitae


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F

  • Fish - The fish: motivating children to learn
  • Football - The 'simple' game 

G

  • Glass of wine - The glass of wine: what makes wine 'authentic'?

H

  • Hoodie - The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?
  • House - The house: a classic object of human resilience to environmental disasters?

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L

  • Legal drugs - Legal drugs: all the pros and non of the cons?
  • Loaf of bread - The loaf of bread: a symbol of business inequality?

M

  • Mirror - The mirror: do others see us in the way in which we see ourselves?
  • Mobile phone - The mobile phone: a tool for sousveillance?
  • Muslim veil - The Muslim veil: a symbol of terror?

N

  • Newspaper - The newspaper: The rise and fall of a cultural form
  • Nuclear bomb - The nuclear bomb: the destroyer of planets?

O

  • Open door - The open door: the transition of an access student

P

  • Passport - The passport: is it the only way to say who we truly are?
  • Payslip - The payslip: the effects of minimum wage
  • Photograph - The photograph
  • Postcard - The postcard: wish you were here

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R

  • Rocking horse - The rocking horse: the classic object of childhood
  • Rosetta stone - The Rosetto stone: the first political manifesto?

S

  • Shopping basket - The shopping basket: the blend of physical and virtual
  • Short skirt - The short skirt: a symbol of victim blaming culture?
  • Stamp - The stamp: a classic object in the development of education?
  • Suit - The suit: a symbol of masculinity?
  • Sweatband - The sweatband: the moral arbiter of our time?

T

  • Television - The television: an electronic babysitter for the incarcerated? 
  • Till - The till: helpful technology or tool of management control?
  • Tin of soup - A tin of soup: a symbol of household food insecurity?

U

  • Underwear - Underwear: A tool for fashioning female identity?

V

  • Video game - The video game: a legitimate art form?
  • Voting slip - The voting slip: democracy in action?

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