This episode features a roundtable discussion about Canadian sociology. It features Rima Wilkes (University of British Columbia), Howard Ramos (Dalhousie University), Liam Swiss (Memorial University), and Dale Ballucci (Western). Topics include Trumpism’s potential in Canada, cultural differences with the United States, how Canadian sociology differs from American sociology, issues in […]
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This week, we talk with Yasemin Besen-Cassino from Montclair State University about gender and early work experiences. Yasemin is the author of a new book: The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap from Temple University Press. We also discuss partisanship and the study of […]
In this episode, we speak with David Brady from the University of California, Riverside’s School of Public Policy , and author of Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty (Oxford University Press). He discusses the comparative study of policy and poverty, and the value of an international perspective in the study of […]
We discuss economists and their influence in higher education, political upheaval, and Dream Hoarders.
Also, we discuss Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle, charges of data falsification in France, and the case of Brooke Harrington and academic freedom in Denmark.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Robert Francis (Johns Hopkins) about his work studying working class, white male Trump supporters. Robert wrote “Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius.
We discuss a provision of the proposed Trump tax bill that treats tuition waivers as income, and asks what the impact of those changes would be for graduate students.
We discuss two cases in which online outrage spurred changes in academia: the cases of George Cicariello-Maher and the Third World Quarterly retraction.
