Ms Paula Surridge
BSc (Warwick)
Office: 3E5, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 7007
Email: p.surridge@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests
My research covers three over-lapping areas: social stratification, social and political attitudes and sociological methodology. In the area of social and political values, I have been particularly interested in social attitudes and political behaviour in Scotland, and was co-director of the 1997 Scottish Election Survey and co-founder of the now annual Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys.
Current Research
My work on social stratification is currently focussed in two areas. Firstly, it considers the relationship between social class and education, with particular reference to the work of Bourdieu and the use of notions of capital to redefine social class. In addition, I am currently developing work on class identity, particularly the changing (or unchanging) nature of class identity in the post-war period.
Current Teaching
On research leave.
Recent Publications
- Park, A and Surridge, P (2003) 'Charting Change in British Values in Park', A., Curtice, J., Thomson, K., Jarvis, L. and Bromley, C. (eds) British Social Attitudes: the 20th Report - Continuity and change over two decades, London: Sage.
- Surridge, P (2003) 'A Classless Society? Social Attitudes and Social Class' in Devolution: Scottish Answers to Scottish Questions? Bromley, C., Curtice, J., Hinds, K. and Park, A (eds) Edinburgh:EUP
- Surridge, P (2002) 'The sociological pied-piper: moving forward without RATs' International journal of social research methodology: theory & practice, Vol.5, No.1, pp.41-50
- Surridge, P. (2001) 'Society and Democracy: the New Scotland' in Curtice, J., McCrone, D., Park, A., and Paterson, L. New Scotland, New Society? Edinburgh: EUP
- Brown, A., Curtice, J., Hinds, K., McCrone, D., Park, A., Paterson, L and Surridge, P (2001) New Scotland, New Politics Edinburgh: EUP