We discuss recent charges of researcher misconduct against for failing to clear his Sokal Squared hoax with his school's institutional review board.
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Joe and Clayton Childress (University of Toronto) discuss the trials of writing, and ways of dealing with it.
Joe and Leslie interview Jooyoung Lee (University of Toronto) about his upcoming book about violence, Ricochet. We talk about his field work in Philadelphia, his role in Canada’s handgun debate, and the craft of fieldwork.
Joe, Gabriel and Rebecca Raby (Brock University) discuss a recent viral Twitter thread that discusses how qualitative researchers should deal with questions about their studies’ small N’s.
Joe talks to Philip Cohen (University of Maryland, College Park) about commercial publishers’ efforts at vertical integration, and concerns about maximizing the openness of science.
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel and Fabio Rojas (Indiana University) discuss his and Rashawn Ray’s (University of Maryland, College Park) plans for their editorship of Contexts. Fabio Rojas is the current editor of Contexts Magazine, and is the author of From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became […]
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel and Fabio Rojas (Indiana University) discuss elitism in sociology. Fabio Rojas is the current editor of Contexts Magazine, and is the author of From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. His new book is Theory for the Working Sociologist
Gabriel and Joe discuss the “Sokal Squared” hoax, in which ridiculous articles were submitted and often accepted in humanities journals. The hoax generated considerable debate on bias in academia and the quality of peer-reviewed publications. A video produced by the authors of the papers, in which one author notifies his […]
Melissa Wilde from University of Pennsylvania discusses her soon-to-be-released book on how early struggles over birth control reflected race fears, and helped shaped modern American politics.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel ask Conrad Hackett from the Pew Research Center about careers in the private research industry.
