Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) interviews Dr. Melissa Osborne (@mosbornesoc.bsky.social), Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Washington University on their 2024 book Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility, which was published by the University of Chicago Press. The book follows 150 low income and first-generation college students as they […]
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The role of academics as a group and higher education as a sector in responding to the coming Trump administration.
A discussion about the sociology of science, efforts to quantify scientific productivity, and America's largest soc departments.
We discuss whether working class students are served well by a higher ed curriculum that eschews vocational training.
How much should the discipline value public scholarship? What to make of public scholarship on new media?
Stanford University's Provost recently threatened to cut Stanford University Press, describing the Press as a "second rate press."
