The Annex Sociology Podcast
The Annex Sociology Podcast is a podcast that features and speaks to academic sociologists. Our episodes feature discussions with leading academic sociologists from across the world on the more niche topics that draw interest within our occupation, like current research, disciplinary politics, teaching, advisement, grantmaking, writing and publishing, or higher education administration.
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Recent Podcast Episodes
Classical Sociology (Lizardo & Abrutyn)
February 1, 2023
Seth Aburtyn (UBC) and Omar Lizardo (UCLA) discuss classical sociology and their Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory.
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How Americans Misunderstand China's Political System (Chua & Lei)
January 28, 2023
What do we really know about China's political system and civil society? We discuss with two experts.
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Racism and Racial Humor (Raul Perez)
December 15, 2022
We discuss racism, racial humor, and Raul Perez's new book, The Souls of Black Jokes. Guests Raul Perez, Ann Morning, and Victor Ray
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Making Governments Respect Human Rights (Hajjar, Roberts & Viterbo)
November 30, 2022
We discuss the struggle to guarantee human rights with three sociologists who specialize in human rights.
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The Economic Style of Thinking (Popp-Berman)
November 22, 2022
Economic thinking has influenced thought on public policy. What is it, and how did it become so influential?
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Annex Live on YouTube
This fall, The Annex Sociology Podcast will experiment with live stream roundtables on YouTube. We will talk about disciplinary news, new research, recent currents in sociology, and real world applications of our scholarship. Catch us on YouTube Live on selected Tuesdays, starting November 15. Click here for a post describing the series. This is a collaboration with Contexts.
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- The (In)Flexibility of Racial Discrimination: Labor Market Context and the Racial Wage Gap in the United States, 2000 to 2021
- Mating Call, Dog Whistle, Trigger: Asymmetric Alignments, Race, and the Use of Reactionary Religious Rhetoric in American Politics
- Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?
- From mass mobilization to neoliberal war-making: Labor strikes and military-industrial transformation in the United States
- Social Dynamics and the Lost Tradition of a Third Front Enterprise in Post‐Maoist China: The Anding Computer Factory and the Everyday Lives of Employees
- Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day
- Social class and approaches to shaping educational expectations
- Reimagining health services provision for neglected groups: The “personalization from below” phenomenon
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- Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia with Benjamin Hegarty
- New Rome — Paul Stephenson
- The Origins of You — Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richie Poulton
- Memory Speaks — Julie Sedivy
- Maladies of Empire — Jim Downs
- Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918
- Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction
- #MeToo and Modernism
- African American History: A Very Short Introduction
- Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema
Latest from the Sociology Blogs
- American Sociological Association section memberships, 2002-2022
- TSP’s Roundup February 3, 2023
- Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, "Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
- Geneviève Zubrzycki, "Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival" (Princeton UP, 2022)
- Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
- A Chat with Dr. Elizabeth Hirsch
- A Chat with Dr. Elizabeth Hirsch
- What is precarious work, and what happened to precarious workers during the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
- Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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- Has #SocTwitter Died? Should I Be Sad? November 29, 2022
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- Annex Live Premiere with Episode on Sociology of Science November 1, 2022
- Proposal: Annex on YouTube Live September 19, 2022
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