This week, we talk to Donnell Butler, a Pahara-Aspen education fellow and the Senior Associate Dean for Planning and Analysis of Student Outcomes at Franklin & Marshall College about the executive track as a career choice, free speech on campus, and an outside look at the discipline (46:10) We also discuss the […]
Podcast: Annex Sociology Podcast
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We discuss a provision of the proposed Trump tax bill that treats tuition waivers as income, and asks what the impact of those changes would be for graduate students.
The University of Wisconsin, Superior closes its sociology department. We ask whether this is a canary in a coalmine, or an idiosyncratic event.
Donnell Butler a Senior Dean at Franklin & Marshall, discusses the executive track as a career path for sociology academics, and how perspectives on higher ed differ between faculty and administrators. We also discuss recent conflict on campus free speech.
We interview John Eason from Texas A&M, and author of Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation (University of Chicago Press) . We also discuss representation at ESS plenary sessions (0:50) and class inequality (19:25).
Charges that the 2018 Eastern Sociological Society’s scheduled plenary speakers reflect elitism in sociology.
We interview John Eason about his work on the rural prison industry and the communities that house them, and his book on the topic, Big House on the Prairie.
This week, we talk to David Peterson from Northwestern University (31:22). David is a sociologist of knowledge and science, and his research compares the scientific practices of natural and social scientists. He authored a 2015 American Sociological Review article, “All that is Solid: Bench-Building at the Frontiers of Two Experimental Sciences” Also, […]
We discuss the case of Amy Cuddy, a researcher who rose to fame on research whose failure to replicate prompted backlash.
