Welcome to the official free Podcast site from Sage for Sociology. Sage is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets with principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore.
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Two lovers engage in sociologically minded discussions exploring books, movies, and whatever else fits the bill.
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Our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review, Uncommon Sense is a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about society – for imagining better ways of living together and confronting our shared crises. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, featuring a different guest each month, Uncommon Sense insists that sociology is for everyone – and that you definitely don’t have to be a sociologist to think like one! S ...
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This is a podcast about deciphering human behavior and understanding why people do the things they do. I, Zach Elwood, talk with people from a wide range of fields about how they make sense of human behavior and psychology. I've talked to jury consultants, interrogation professionals, behavior researchers, sports analysts, professional poker players, to name a few. There are more than 135 episodes, many of them quite good (although some say I'm biased). To learn more, go to PeopleWhoReadPeop ...
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Three activists. Their ideas, their work, their lasting importance. In this special short series of audio essays from the Sociological Review Foundation, three expert guests introduce us to key figures in the story of UK anti-racism, illuminating how they show us what that term really means – and what it takes – but also how their work and ideas speak to sociology, too, and deserve to be better known. Starting the series, John Narayan – Chair of the Council of the Institute of Race Relations ...
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Review and life of Michael Allen Cover art photo provided by Nahil Naseer on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@nahilnaseer
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A ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by British geographer Doreen Massey. From a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, from a contested waterfront in Kochi to the Egyptian desert, our show seeks to inspire listeners to think about space and place as full of power, and to imagine political alternatives to the current world order.
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Urban Political Podcast
Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland
The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic. The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new p ...
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This lecture series is the in-class presentations of McMaster University's 2008-09 Introduction to Sociology course, section C01, led by Dr. Tina Fetner.
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A political podcast hosted by Max Klinger, featuring interviews with well-known guests. Things we are generally in favour of: free thought, free discussion and reasoned arguments. Things we are generally against: mindless groupthink, hysterical social media outrage mobs and illiberalism. 'The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but how it thinks.' - Christopher Hitchens.
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Join us as we talk about the books we've read recently. We have book club-style talks about where we analyze the plot, themes, characters, what we liked and what we didn't.
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Blog Order (Podcast 1 in Blog 40) 40. J. Miller, K. Vine, and D. Larkin, ‘The Relationship of Product and Process Performance of the Two-Handed Sidearm Strike’, Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy, 2007, 12, 61–75. 41. K. L. Oliver and R. Lalik, ‘The Body as Curriculum: Learning with Adolescent Girls’, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2001, 33, 303–33. 42. C. C. Pope and M. O’Sullivan, ‘Darwinism in the Gym’, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2003, 22, 311–27. 43. J. Quay, ‘Experie ...
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American Sociological Review - Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States
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15:48Authors Fabiana Silva, Irene Bloemraad, and Kim Voss discuss the article, "Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States," published in the June 2025 issue of American Sociological Review.
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Len Garrison, Archives and Self-Esteem – by Hannah Ishmael
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19:20How can archives fight racism? How can progressive educational resources tackle the harm of discrimination? Why have millennia of British history so often been presented through a reductive and harmful white gaze? Hannah Ishmael – lecturer in Digital Culture and Race at King’s College London – introduces Len Garrison, an activist, archivist and det…
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Gerlin Bean and Black British Feminist Socialism – by A.S. Francis
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24:47What did Black radical politics look like in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s? What was its relation to the Black women’s movement, which urgently highlighted the multiple oppressions faced by Black women? How, in studying such movements, can we celebrate brilliant activists, without erasing the importance of whole movements and collectives? Here, A.S…
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Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Tech and Anti-Racism – by John Narayan
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23:23What does tech have to do with anti-racism? Why do we dismiss complex economics at our peril? And how do global struggles for justice connect to those at the local level? John Narayan – Chair of the Council of the Institute of Race Relations, and a lecturer in European and International Studies at King’s College London – introduces us to Ambalavane…
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Sociological Theory - Beyond Polarization: Right-Wing News as a Quasi-religious Phenomenon
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18:28Authors Marcus Mann and Daniel Winchester discuss the article "Beyond Polarization: Right-Wing News as a Quasi-religious Phenomenon," published in the June 2025 issue of Sociological Theory.
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Can eye direction reveal lies? Or is that behavior bullshit? A talk with Tim Levine
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55:14Maybe you’ve heard that you can get clues about whether someone is lying by what direction they look when they talk. The most common form of this idea is that if someone is looking up and to their left, they’re more likely to be accessing real visual memories (associated with truth), and if they’re looking up and to their right, they’re more likely…
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90 - Looking Back at Eight Years of Municipalist Government in Barcelona
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1:24:51The movement-party Barcelona en Comú In this episode, we reflect on the rise, evolution, and legacy of Barcelona en Comú, the emblematic movement-party that governed the city of Barcelona from 2015 to 2023. Joined by long-time activist and former political advisor Elia Gran, as well as researchers Silke van Dyk and Luzie Gerstenhöfer (University of…
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Journal of Health and Social Behavior - Racial Capitalism and Black–White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis
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13:15Author Reed DeAngelis discusses the article, "Racial Capitalism and Black–White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis," published in the June 2025 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
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We discuss the 2024 film 'The Substance,' its place in feminist cinema, and what it has to say about disability (spoilers: it's not sure).By Sam Sowell and Hannah Brown
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Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism – Trailer
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2:03Hi everyone! The next episode of Uncommon Sense is landing here soon, but for now, we want to tell you about our brand new podcast, Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism, a mini-series of audio essays on the work and lasting sociological significance of three important and inspirational figures in the story of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, G…
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Socius - Racial Identification Switching and Health among Mothers in California
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12:24Author Brenda Bustos discusses the article, "Racial Identification Switching and Health among Mothers in California" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
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Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism is a special mini-series featuring expert guests John Narayan, A.S. Francis and Hannah Ishmael. They introduce us to three key figures in the story of UK anti-racism – Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean and Len Garrison – illuminating how their work and ideas speak to sociology, showing us what it means to be ant…
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89 - Book Presentation: Turkish Muslim Women in Berlin
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31:41Navigating Boundaries in the City Kulkul presents her ethnographic work with Turkish Muslim women in Berlin as evidence that community is not an entity but is produced by instrumentalizing specific forms of identification and boundary-making.In examining the role of community in the case of her participants, Kulkul finds that religion and culture a…
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Contemporary Sociology - The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality
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13:16Author Timothy Recuber discusses the book, The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality, reviewed in the May 2025 issue of Contemporary Sociology by Stefan Timmermans.
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88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries (The Urban Lives of Property Series V)
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45:02The Urban Lives of Property Series In this episode of The Urban Lives of Property, Markus Kip and Hanna Hilbrandt speak with Heather Dorries, about the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes. Drawing on Dorries’ recent publications and her wider expertise on property, Indigeneity, and urbanism the episo…
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
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40:31Today, we discuss the book "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat" by Aubrey Gordon. We relate it to the social and medical models of disability.By Sam Sowell and Hannah Brown
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How do we typically see fat, and how can thinking differently about it have emancipatory outcomes? Fady Shanouda of Carleton University’s Feminist Institute of Social Transformation introduces Fat Studies and their inextricable link to activism. Alert to the connection between living and other things, Fady unpacks his feminist new materialist appro…
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87 - Infrastructures of Urban Citizenship
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37:31With Examples from the UK, Lebanon and Germany This talk focuses on the role of public services in delineating the boundaries of belonging and possibilities of participation in cities. Drawing on the notion of 'infrastructural citizenship', it asks how non-citizens navigate access to urban circulations and how rights and responsibilities are negoti…
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Why some see liberals as the undemocratic ones: A talk about democracy and polarization with Elizabeth Doll
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1:22:54Many Americans think Trump is harming democracy; they see him as acting undemocratically in various ways. At the same time, Republicans and Trump supporters can view Democrats/liberals as themselves acting in highly undemocratic ways: as embracing various beliefs and actions that violate the spirit of democracy. I talk to Elizabeth Doll, who has wo…
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Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa delivers a theoretically informed, ethnographic exploration of the African urban world through the life of concrete. Emblematic of frenetic urban and capitalistic development, this material is pervasive, shaping contemporary urban landscapes…
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On hypnosis and mind control: separating fact from fiction | with Martin S. Taylor
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1:02:55A talk about hypnosis and mind control with Martin S. Taylor, a well known British hypnotist (hypnotism.co.uk). Martin is known for his stage hypnosis act but also for educating people about hypnosis and removing the illusions and mystique surrounding it. There are some people who make astounding claims that they can control and manipulate people u…
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American Sociological Review - Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action
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7:35Author Ioana Sendroiu discusses the article, "Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action," published in the April 2025 issue of American Sociological Review.
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Teaching Sociology - Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice
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23:07Authors Matthew Mitchell, Flynn Pervan, Josiah Lulham and Will Arpke-Wales discuss the article, "Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice," published in the April 2025 issue of Teaching Sociology.
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Sociology of Education - Sent Out, Kept In: Detainment-Based Discipline in a Public High School
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24:46Author Karlyn J. Gorski discusses the article, "Sent Out, Kept In: Detainment-Based Discipline in a Public High School" published in the April 2025 issue of Sociology of Education.
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From TV’s “The Bear” to the simmering restaurant thriller “Boiling Point” we seem drawn to angry-but-vulnerable chefs in pop culture. But how do such stereotypes shape who works in kitchens and how they treat their colleagues? Is “kitchen culture”, with its macho rough and tumble norms, always so different from the work culture so many of us face –…
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Contemporary Sociology - The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women
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17:52Author Fauzia Husain discusses the book, The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women, reviewed in the March 2025 issue of Contemporary Sociology by Heidi E. Rademacher.
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Social Psychology Quarterly - Intersectional Group Agreement on the Occupational Order
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12:08Author Freda B. Lynn discusses the article, "Intersectional Group Agreement on the Occupational Order" published in the March 2025 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.
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Socius - Weaponizing the Workplace: How Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon’s Antiunion Campaign in Bessemer, Alabama
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23:58Author Teke Wiggin discusses the article, "Weaponizing the Workplace: How Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon’s Antiunion Campaign in Bessemer, Alabama" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
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Examples from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan This episode is part of our Think&Drink Series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies working with the Humboldt University Berlin. Today’s speaker is Andrei Semenov, an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev Univers…
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City & Community - Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco
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10:56Authors Nima Dahir and Jackelyn Hwang discuss the article, "Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco," published in the March 2025 issue of City & Community.
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Society and Mental Health - The Sociology of Mental Health and the Twenty-First-Century Mental Health Crisis
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25:41Author Jason Schnittker discusses the article, "The Sociology of Mental Health and the Twenty-First-Century Mental Health Crisis," published in the March 2025 issue of Society and Mental Health.
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Journal of Health and Social Behavior - Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities
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22:15Author Stefanie Mollborn discusses the article, "Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities," published in the March 2025 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
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Contexts - The Hidden Toll of Grief After Youth Gun Violence
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17:41Author Nora Gross discusses the article, "The Hidden Toll of Grief After Youth Gun Violence" published in the Winter 2025 issue of Contexts.
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Urban Political x Groningen University: Where Is Urban Politics? This is the first seminar in the series 'Where is Urban Politics?' a hybrid seminar series hosted by the University of Groningen, in the academic year 2024-2025. For more information on recent and forthcoming events: https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/where-is-urban-politics-series This …
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What happened to Keith Olbermann? A review of his insulting and incendiary behaviors
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1:18:55In March of 2024, the newsman and sports commentator Keith Olbermann tweeted that the “Supreme Court had betrayed democracy” and called for it to be “dissolved.” This was the second time he’d called for the Supreme Court to be dissolved: he did that also in 2022. This is a review of some of Olbermann’s more unreasonable and incendiary behavior over…
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Mirror selfies, duck faces, and party pics: On signals we send with dating app profiles
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52:45I talk to Dr. Jess Snitko, who has researched online dating and other online communication, about the signals and messages we send, intentionally and unintentionally, with dating app profiles and pictures. Jess earned her Ph.D. in Media, Technology, and Society from Purdue University in 2020. Topics discussed: Factors in pictures and profiles that …
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American Sociological Review - Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy
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8:48Author Joya Misra discusses the article, "Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy," published in the February 2025 issue of American Sociological Review.
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The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress
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7:56The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress.
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83 - Book Presentation: Dithering for the Common Good
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45:28Productive misunderstandings in cooperative urban development This is a new episode from our Think&Drink series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies and the Humboldt University Berlin.Co-operative urban development is the buzzword of the moment. It stands for the pursuit of a fairer city that is orientated towards the com…
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Is the left-right spectrum an illusion that harms us? A talk with Hyrum Lewis
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53:35What if I told you the left-right political spectrum was an illusion? What if I told you there is no “left” or “right”? My guest is Hyrum Lewis, co-author of The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America. They argue that we’ve embraced a simplistic, faulty idea of an essential “left/liberalism” and an essential “…
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What comes to mind when you think about joy? And can there be joy in protest and refusal? Someone who’s been asking and trying to answer questions about this is Akwugo Emejulu. She’s been investigating the relationship between Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures, asking how Black feminists are remixing political media, meanings and messages…
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Socius - The Significance of Name-Based Racial Composition in Analyzing Neighborhood Disparities
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18:12Author Karl Vachuska discusses the article, "The Significance of Name-Based Racial Composition in Analyzing Neighborhood Disparities" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
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Teaching Sociology - Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Balancing Pedagogy and Partnerships in an Undergraduate Community-Based Research Class
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14:41Author Florencia Rojo discusses the article, "Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Balancing Pedagogy and Partnerships in an Undergraduate Community-Based Research Class," published in the January 2025 issue of Teaching Sociology.
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Does Trader Joe's pressure its employees to talk to customers?
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23:26Every time I go in Trader Joe's, the checkout person asks me a question of some sort. I used to think everyone there was just happy and friendly, but then I heard reports that it was more of a rule or strong encouragement that employees talk to customers. I read conflicting reports about this online and wanted to talk to someone who'd worked at Tra…
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The charlatan Chase Hughes promoted by popular shows “Diary of a CEO," Patrick Bet-David, more
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53:23The fraud Chase Hughes, whose major lies and unethical behaviors I’ve examined in past episodes, continues to succeed in getting popular podcasts with large audiences to interview him. Chase recently appeared on the podcast The Diary of a CEO with host Steven Bartlett; he also appeared on Patrick Bet-David’s podcast (PBD podcast). He's also been on…
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Mobility for What? Space, Time, Labor, and Gender in South Asia
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20:29Mobility for What? Space, Time, Labor, and Gender in South Asia
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The polarization of Elon Musk: His high-contempt approach to political disagreement
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18:24In June of 2024, I got an op-ed published in TheHill.com about Elon Musk's polarization -- specifically his affective polarization, which refers to how people perceive and treat their political opponents. Like many in our highly polarized, righteously angry society across the polical spectrum, Elon Musk treats the "other side" with much contempt an…
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Sociology of Education - Complicating the “Suburban Advantage”: Examining Racial and Gender Inequality in Suburban and Urban School Settings
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15:16Authors Emily E. N. Miller and Alejandro Schugurensky discuss the article, "Complicating the “Suburban Advantage”: Examining Racial and Gender Inequality in Suburban and Urban School Settings" published in the January 2025 issue of Sociology of Education.
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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - Maya Guatemalans Seeking Asylum: Race and Gender in a Continuum of State Control
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21:34Authors Cecilia Menjívar and Andrea Gómez Cervantes discuss the article, "Maya Guatemalans Seeking Asylum: Race and Gender in a Continuum of State Control" published in the January 2025 issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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Contemporary Sociology - Embodied Politics: Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California
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19:37Author Rebecca J. Hester discusses the book, Embodied Politics: Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California, reviewed in the January 2025 issue of Contemporary Sociology by Robert C. Hauhart.
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