Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Elizabeth Popp Berman (SUNY Albany) discuss Richard Reeves’ “Dream Hoarders”, and conceptions of inequality that portray the top fifth or so as part of elites.
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We discuss economists and their influence in higher education, political upheaval, and Dream Hoarders.
We interview John Eason about his work on the rural prison industry and the communities that house them, and his book on the topic, Big House on the Prairie.
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 […]
This week, we speak to Georgetown sociologist Corey Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans (2016, University of California Press). Also, Twitter’s experiment with 280 character Tweets, China’s crackdown on Uighurs, post-Christianity in Europe, and Chris Hayes’ A Colony and a Nation.
