David Brady discusses the comparative study of policy and poverty, and the value of an international perspective in the study of poverty
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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 discuss the case of Amy Cuddy, a researcher who rose to fame on research whose failure to replicate prompted backlash.
We discuss two cases in which online outrage spurred changes in academia: the cases of George Cicariello-Maher and the Third World Quarterly retraction.
We discuss ASA Presidential candidate Mary Romero's platform statement, in which she calls for us to do away with "false notions of objectivity".