Today, we meet with Jessi Streib of Duke University. Jessi wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages with Oxford University Press. More recently, she published “The Unbalanced Theoretical Toolkit: Problems and Partial Solutions to Studying Culture and Reproduction but not Culture and Mobility” in the American Journal of Cultural […]
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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: […]
We discuss a new personnel strategy at Southern Illinois University, in which administrators are searching for volunteer faculty.
This week, The Annex sits down with Vincent Roscigno of Ohio State University. Vincent is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, former editor of the American Sociological Review, and current head of an ASA task force on scholars from working class and first-generation families. He wrote The Face of Discrimination (University […]
In this ALL-BANTER episode, we discuss China’s social rating system, managing our schools’ and discipline’s service obligations, and reactions to the reboot of Roseanne.
Right Tales is a podcast conservative sociological take on policy, culture, and society. In this episode, Gabriel Rossman and Josh McCabe discuss campus free speech, whether Canadian policy is as liberal as Americans often presume, and questions about whether sociologists have a strong liberal bias. Episode recorded 3/5/2018
This week, The Annex sits down with Amy Binder of the University of California, San Diego. Amy is the author of Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives with Princeton University Press. We discuss campus conservatism, politics, and professors. We also discuss economic development and Betsy DeVos.
In this week’s episode of The Annex, we talk to Becky Yang Hsu of Georgetown University. Becky recently published a new book, Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties with Cambridge University Press. We also discuss microlending in rural China, Black Panther, spouses frustrating efforts to conspicuously display cultural capital, and sociology departments’ […]
This week, The Annex meets Japonica Brown-Saracino from Boston University. Japonica discusses research from her new book, How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. We also discuss housing funding and gentrification, and enrollment problems in the university industry. Japonica Brown-Saracino is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston […]
This week on The Annex, we talk with Kieran Healy from Duke University. Kieran is author of the much-acclaimed 2017 theory paper “Fuck Nuance” in Sociological Theory, and of the award-winning Last Best Gift (Chicago). We also talk about a new study on the human capital versus signaling debate about higher education’s value, reactions […]
