Joe and Clayton Childress (University of Toronto) discuss a recent poll suggesting that most Americans view political correctness negatively.
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Joe, Gabriel and Rebecca Raby (Brock University) discuss a recent article by Elizabeth Bruenig in the Washginton Post about an emergent “triggering” style of US politics, in which people seek to upset those with whom they disagree.
This week, The Annex sits down with 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 addition, we discuss how qualitative researchers should deal with small-N […]
An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of Puerto Rico fatalities resulting from Hurricane Maria. Santos’ and similar analyses led to important questions about the adequacy of government responses to the hurricane. We also discuss the Tree […]
An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of Puerto Rico fatalities resulting from Hurricane Maria. Santos’ and similar analyses led to important questions about the adequacy of government responses to the hurricane.
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development) discuss Trump’s reaction to the Tree of Life shooting massacre in Pittsburgh.
This week, The Annex sits down with Melissa Wilde from the University of Pennsylvania. Melissa is a comparative-historical sociologists who wrote Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change with Princeton University Press. We discuss her upcoming book, which explores an early chapter of America’s evolving culture wars by discusses the relationship between race […]
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
In this segment, we discuss reactions the reboot of the sitcom, Roseanne, and the negative reactions to her portrayal as a Trump supporter.
We discuss the Cambridge Analytics scandal, in which a company stole Facebook user data to advance the Republican 2016 campaign.
