This week, The Annex meets Japonica Brown-Saracino from Boston University. Japonica discusses research from her new book, How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. We also discuss housing funding and gentrification, and enrollment problems in the university industry. Japonica Brown-Saracino is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston […]
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This week on The Annex, we talk with Kieran Healy from Duke University. Kieran is author of the much-acclaimed 2017 theory paper “Fuck Nuance” in Sociological Theory, and of the award-winning Last Best Gift (Chicago). We also talk about a new study on the human capital versus signaling debate about higher education’s value, reactions […]
A study shows that a Columbian business school’s placement outcomes soured after it cut core curricular requirements.
Gabriel discusses the UCLA campus Republicans' internal debates about whether or not to invite Milo Yiannopoulos to speak.
We discuss the case of Lawrence Rosen, who sparked controversy by using N-word in a class on hate speech. Photo Credit. By Internet Archive Book Images – https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14785007033/Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/physiologyhygien00heiz/physiologyhygien00heiz#page/n131/mode/1up, No restrictions, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43372572
This week, The Annex sits down with Aliza Luft of UCLA. Aliza authored the 2015 Sociological Theory article, “Toward a Dynamic THeory of Action at the Micro Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda” We discuss our conceptions of violence perpetration and the social factors that drive the choice to commit […]
