Rengin Firat (UC Riverside) discusses how human neurology shapes the social phenomena that sociologists study.
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Rachel Skaggs (Ohio State University) describes her research on making it in country music songwriting.
An interview with Michelle Silver (University of Toronto), author of Retirement and Its Discontents (Columbia).
An interview with Arthur Sakamoto from Texas A&M about explanations of Asian-Americans' high educational achievement, and attributing this achievement to Asian culture.
We interview Cristobal Young about his work on whether the wealthy relocate in response to tax changes.
We discuss the College Cheating Scandal, in which several celebrities and wealthy people were caught using bribery and cheating to get their children into prestigious schools.
A discussion about the concepts of "mesearch" and "autoethnography", and their legitimacy as a criticism of research.