theory
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Examines youth suicide clusters, and the social environmental forces that cause psychological pain and suffering.
Corte shares his ethnographic work on big wave surfing, risk-taking, and the difference between pleasure and fun.
What do the KKK and the FBI have in common? Both organizations use anonymity to accomplish their goals.
Shai Dromi and Sam Stabler to discuss their new book Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science (University of Chicago Press)
Seth Aburtyn (UBC) and Omar Lizardo (UCLA) discuss classical sociology and their Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory.
Seth Aburtyn (University of British Columbia) discusses the role of classical sociology in our graduate curricula.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) on the study of culture and social class. Jessi Streib wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages (Oxford University Press), a book on the challenges that college-educated couples face when one partner comes from a working class family. More […]
Today, we meet with Jessi Streib of Duke University. Jessi wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages with Oxford University Press. More recently, she published “The Unbalanced Theoretical Toolkit: Problems and Partial Solutions to Studying Culture and Reproduction but not Culture and Mobility” in the American Journal of Cultural […]
This week on The Annex, we talk with Kieran Healy from Duke University. Kieran is author of the much-acclaimed 2017 theory paper “Fuck Nuance” in Sociological Theory, and of the award-winning Last Best Gift (Chicago). We also talk about a new study on the human capital versus signaling debate about higher education’s value, reactions […]
