Dr Glenn Firebaugh (Penn State University) presents the reasons behind life expectancy in a comparative perspective.

A new method for determining why length of life is more unequal in some societies than in others

Podcasts from The Department of Sociology. Sociology in Oxford is concerned with real-world issues with policy relevance, such as social inequality, organised crime, the social basis of political conflict and mobilization, and changes in family relationships and gender roles. Our research is empirical, analytical, and comparative in nature, reaching far beyond British society, to encompass systematic cross-national comparison as well as the detailed study of Asian, European, Latin American and North American societies.

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A new method for determining why length of life is more unequal in some societies than in others

A new method for determining why length of life is more unequal in some societies than in others

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