This week, The Annex sits down with Rebecca Raby (Brock University). Rebecca and her colleague Shauna Pomerantz recently published Smart Girls: Success, School, and the Myth of Post-Feminism (2017, University of California Press). We interview Rebecca about her research on youth, gender, education, and inequality. In addition, we discuss how qualitative researchers should deal with small-N […]
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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 talk about Eliza Brown and Mary Patrick’s forthcoming piece in the American Sociological Review on egg freezing.
This week, The Annex brings you three prerecorded segments. First, the gang talk about Eliza Brown and Mary Patrick’s forthcoming piece in the American Sociological Review on egg freezing. Then, Joe interviews Nicole Bedera, a graduate student at Michigan who recently posted a viral tweet reviewing recent research on teen sexual assault. Finally, Joe interviews […]
Sociocast Presents a new installment in our International Perspectives on Sociology series: Ireland. The show is hosted by Sean O’Riain fand Paul Ryan from the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and Frances McGinnity from The Economic and Social Research Institute. They discuss Irish sociology and the major issues it faces: […]
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel and Becky Yang Hsu (Georgetown University) discuss the humorous differences in perspectives that emerge when contemplating a woman’s distressed letter on Reddit about how her husband ruined her wine party: Trytonotexplode 3202 2018-02-27 15:52:09 So I realize this may sound silly and I’m sorry in advance if […]
This week, it’s an Annex banter episode, with discussions about the State of the Union address, the politicization of the term chain migration in the scholarship community, the expanding meaning of “gentrification,” a CUNY investigation into scholars getting promotion and tenure through vanity publishing, and Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto psychology professor […]
This week, we talk with Yasemin Besen-Cassino from Montclair State University about gender and early work experiences. Yasemin is the author of a new book: The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap from Temple University Press. We also discuss partisanship and the study of […]
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 […]
An interview with Boston University's Ashley Mears about her research on the young women who work for VIP bottle services.
