This week, we speak with Boston University‘s Ashley Mears, the current chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Consumers and Consumption. She is also author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (University of California Press). We talk about her upcoming book on bottle service at clubs […]
Podcast: Annex Sociology Podcast
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An interview with Boston University's Ashley Mears about her research on the young women who work for VIP bottle services.
We discuss two cases in which online outrage spurred changes in academia: the cases of George Cicariello-Maher and the Third World Quarterly retraction.
This week, we speak to Stephen Vaisey from Duke University about sociology’s engagement of other disciplines. Stephen’s research spans the boundaries of culture, morality, and the decision sciences. He is the author of “Motivation and Justification: A Dual Process Model” (2009, AJS). Also: Harvey Weinstein and yet another discussion about […]
Gabriel Rossman describes how the case of Harvey Weinstein follows what we know about the development of scandals
We discuss China's Uyghurs, the casting of Uyghurs as whites in Chinese culture, and the Uyghurs' heritage.
Stephen Vaisey discusses his experience with interdisciplinary research in research that bridges sociology and decision sciences.
This week, we talk to Cristina Mora from UC Berkeley about politics and the Hispanic community in America and abroad. Cristina’s book is Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats and Media Constructed a New American (2014, University of Chicago Press). The gang also has a heated argument about objectivity and activism, and […]
We discuss ASA Presidential candidate Mary Romero's platform statement, in which she calls for us to do away with "false notions of objectivity".
