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This week, The Annex sits down with Daniel Laurison of Swarthmore. Along with his co-author Sam Friedman, wrote The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to be Privileged (Policy Press). We also discuss the Oscars, mesearch and autoethnography, and scholars' obligation to teach the public about science's limits.
Joe, Leslie, and Corey Fields (Georgetown University) discuss R. Kelly and reports that journal submissions are way up. Also, an interview with Jay Livingston of Montclair State about reports of a loneliness epidemic
Joe and Clayton Childress (University of Toronto) discuss a recent poll suggesting that most Americans view political correctness negatively.
In this ALL-BANTER episode, we discuss China’s social rating system, managing our schools’ and discipline’s service obligations, and reactions to the reboot of Roseanne.
In this segment, we discuss reactions the reboot of the sitcom, Roseanne, and the negative reactions to her portrayal as a Trump supporter.
This week, The Annex sits down with Pat Reilly from the University of California, Irvine. Pat’s researches career development and social networks in the comedy industry, and finished a multiyear participant-observation study in Los Angeles’ comedy scene. His “The Layers of Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries” was published in Academy of Management […]
In episode 23 of The Annex, we meet Neda Maghbouleh from the University of Toronto. Neda is the author of The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race with Stanford University Press. We also talk about the Oscars ratings dive and Pew’s recent efforts to refine “generations” theory. Neda […]
