We discuss economists and their influence in higher education, political upheaval, and Dream Hoarders.
Podcast: Annex Sociology Podcast
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Also, we discuss Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle, charges of data falsification in France, and the case of Brooke Harrington and academic freedom in Denmark.
We discuss the case of Nicolas Guéguen, a professor recently charged with data fabrication, and the topic of data frabrication more generally. With Robert Francis (Johns Hopkins), Joseph Cohen (CUNY Queens College), Leslie Hinkson (Georgetown), and Gabriel Rossman
Brooke Harrington, a business and politics professor at Denmark’s Copenhagen Business School who studies international tax havens, was charged with a crime by Dutch authorities for violating her work permit by delivering public lectures.
This week, we talk to Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland, College Park. Philip currently directs the ASA Section on the Family, Contexts, and SocArXiv. He is also set to publish a new book, Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else that Makes Families Great and Terrible, from the University […]
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Robert Francis (Johns Hopkins) about his work studying working class, white male Trump supporters. Robert wrote “Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius.
We interview Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland, College park about his work on open science in sociology, and his new book, Enduring Bonds.
In this completely dispensable, all-banter episode, we discuss the possibility of long-term societal changes stemming from recent sexual harassment allegations (3:00), the dynamics governing the fates of identity-based social movements (15:10), weird GSS questions (32:00), bad research incentives (37:10), Gabriel gives his take on Sam Quinones’ Dreamland (39:20), and fear of […]
We discuss our initial reactions to sexual harassment and rape allegations that eventually developed into the #metoo movement.
