political sociology
What do we really know about China's political system and civil society? We discuss with two experts.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE SHOW PAGE Political campaigns are critical to American governance and democracy, but we often do not consider how campaigns and the people who run them influence elections and policy. In this episode of The Annex Sociology Podcast, we sit down with Daniel Laurison (Swarthmore College) to discuss […]
We discuss the Bosnian War with Adis Maksic (expert on genocide and survivor of the war) and Aliza Luft (UCLA).
Joe interviews Timothy Gill from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington on Venezuela’s evolving political and economic crisis, from Chavez until present. Timothy recently wrote “The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Left-Wing Populism in Socialist Venezuela” in the Journal of World Systems Theory.
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 […]
This week, The Annex sits down with Aliza Luft of UCLA. Aliza authored the 2015 Sociological Theory article, “Toward a Dynamic THeory of Action at the Micro Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda” We discuss our conceptions of violence perpetration and the social factors that drive the choice to commit […]