We discuss Old Town Road, a viral hit that rose to the top of the country music chart, and was subsequently delisted. Cristobal Young is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the […]
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Joe and Gabriel interview 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 this completely dispensable, all-banter episode, we discuss the possibility of long-term societal changes stemming from recent sexual harassment allegations (3:00), the dynamics governing the fates of identity-based social movements (15:10), weird GSS questions (32:00), bad research incentives (37:10), Gabriel gives his take on Sam Quinones’ Dreamland (39:20), and fear of […]
