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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
This week, we talk to Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland, College Park. Philip currently directs the ASA Section on the Family, Contexts, and SocArXiv. He is also set to publish a new book, Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else that Makes Families Great and Terrible, from the University […]
In this completely dispensable, all-banter episode, we discuss the possibility of long-term societal changes stemming from recent sexual harassment allegations (3:00), the dynamics governing the fates of identity-based social movements (15:10), weird GSS questions (32:00), bad research incentives (37:10), Gabriel gives his take on Sam Quinones’ Dreamland (39:20), and fear of […]
We discuss our initial reactions to sexual harassment and rape allegations that eventually developed into the #metoo movement.
This week, we speak with Boston University‘s Ashley Mears, the current chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Consumers and Consumption. She is also author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (University of California Press). We talk about her upcoming book on bottle service at clubs […]
This week, we speak to Stephen Vaisey from Duke University about sociology’s engagement of other disciplines. Stephen’s research spans the boundaries of culture, morality, and the decision sciences. He is the author of “Motivation and Justification: A Dual Process Model” (2009, AJS). Also: Harvey Weinstein and yet another discussion about […]
Gabriel Rossman describes how the case of Harvey Weinstein follows what we know about the development of scandals
