In today’s episode of The Annex, Daniel Morrison sits down with Toran Monahan, author of Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance (2022, Duke University Press). Torin Monahan is a Professor of Communication at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society, […]
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Daniel Menchik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Author of the 2021 book Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge (Princeton University Press). Menchik spoke with Dan Morrison about the book, the state of medical sociology, and their shared affinity for Dr. Charles Bosk.
We explore the relationship between science and money by asking what happens when the money runs out. Guest David Reinecke (Princeton).
Economic thinking has influenced thought on public policy. What is it, and how did it become so influential?
A discussion about the sociology of science, efforts to quantify scientific productivity, and America's largest soc departments.
A discussion about how the organization of science affects the behavior of scientists and departments, and in turn knowledge. With JP Pardo-Guerra (UC San Diego) and Charles Gomez (Arizona).
A recent medicine study called attention to exaggerations of findings in abstracts. Do we have the same problem in soc?
We discuss whether social scientists do enough to communicate the limits of their knowledge in public debate.
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.
This week, The Annex sits down with Richard Carpiano of UC Riverside to discuss social conflict over vaccination. Richard recently published “Public Attitudes towards Child Undervaccination: A randomized experiment on evaluations, stigmatizing orientations, and support for policies” Social Science and Medicine. Howard Ramos joins as guest host. Also, the MAGA Hat […]
