Internet outrage at a mixed review of Lana Del Rey's new album. What do we learn about celebrity today?
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Rachel Skaggs (Ohio State University) describes her research on making it in country music songwriting.
The Annex Sociology Podcast examines an article in the New York Times Upshot’ discussing a high intensity parenting style. Discussants Kristina Scharp is an Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of Washington. Her forthcoming articles include “Making Meaning of the Parent-Child Relationship: A Dialogic Analysis of Parent-Initiated Estrangement Narratives” in […]
We discuss Old Town Road, a viral hit that rose to the top of the country music chart, and was subsequently delisted. Cristobal Young is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the […]
We discuss "cancel culture", demands that cultural products are removed from public distribution and circulation when their creators are enmeshed in moral transgressions.
This week, The Annex sits down with Daniel Laurison of Swarthmore. Along with his co-author Sam Friedman, wrote The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to be Privileged (Policy Press). We also discuss the Oscars, mesearch and autoethnography, and scholars' obligation to teach the public about science's limits.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss the concept of toxic masculinity, and a recent New York Times essay on the topic.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) on the study of culture and social class. Jessi Streib wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages (Oxford University Press), a book on the challenges that college-educated couples face when one partner comes from a working class family. More […]
Today, we meet with Jessi Streib of Duke University. Jessi wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages with Oxford University Press. More recently, she published “The Unbalanced Theoretical Toolkit: Problems and Partial Solutions to Studying Culture and Reproduction but not Culture and Mobility” in the American Journal of Cultural […]
This week, The Annex sits down with Clayton Childress from the University of Toronto. Clayton wrote Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel with Princeton University Press. We discuss the process of a fiction book’s conception, development, distribution, and reception, and the degree to which the fiction publishing industry […]
