Najlepsze podcasty z kategorii: Sociology (2021)

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New Books in Sociology

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A. M. Thawnghmung, "Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019) 56:48

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Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows in Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar (U Wisconsin Press, 2019), eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement. Citizens have coped with extreme hardship through great re…

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The Annex Sociology Podcast

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Loneliness, Article Submissions, and R. Kelly*

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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 epidemicAutor: Queens Podcast Lab

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The Sociology Show

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Studying Sociology at University (STUDENT SPECIAL) 40:38

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In this episode, Matthew talks to Drew Dalton from the University of Sunderland about what you can expect from studying a Sociology degree. Drew explains some of the different pathways and routes you can take and what modules you can expect to study within them. Drew discusses the classic BSC Sociology route, the gender and inequality route, the so…

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SAGE Sociology

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NLF - Public Health, Private Equity, And The Pandemic 27:31

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As the coronavirus surges across the U.S. during this holiday season, the biblical “no room in the inn” has become “no room in the hospital.” This is especially true in rural regions in the Midwest, South and Southwest, where hospital closings imperil whole communities. Today’s podcast explores one of the factors which has exacerbated this crisis: …

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The Annex Sociology Podcast

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Jay Livingston on Reports of a Loneliness Epidemic

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Joe sits down with Jay Livingston (Montclair State) to discuss reports of a loneliness epidemic, and how sociologists wage a never-ending battle against appealing but empirically unsupported media stories. Jay is the author of Montclair SocioBlog, one of the longest-running blogs in the discipline.Autor: Queens Podcast Lab

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The Annex Sociology Podcast

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International Perspectives on Sociology: Canada

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This episode features a roundtable discussion about Canadian sociology. It features Rima Wilkes (University of British Columbia), Howard Ramos (Dalhousie University), Liam Swiss (Memorial University), and Dale Ballucci (Western). Topics include Trumpism’s potential in Canada, cultural differences with the United States, how Canadian sociology diffe…

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New Books in Sociology

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R. A. Woldoff and R. C. Litchfield, "Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy" (Oxford UP, 2021) 1:46:44

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In the space of a few weeks this spring, organizations around the world learned that many traditional, in-person jobs could, in fact, be performed remotely. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, however, some individuals were already utilizing new options for personal mobility and online work to strike out on their own. In the new book, Digital Nomads: In …

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New Books in Sociology

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Andray Abrahamian, "Being in North Korea" (Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2019) 1:04:08

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As well as presenting practical challenges, addressing the question ‘what is it like in North Korea?’ raises ethical concerns around who is entitled to interpret life in a place so often discussed in luridly exoticizing terms. The awareness of authorial position and sensitivity to shared humanity which runs through Andray Abrahamian’s Being in Nort…

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New Books in Sociology

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Becky L. Schulthies, "Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the Media of Sociality" (Fordham UP, 2020) 59:44

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What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez. Over the last decade, laments of language and media failure in Fez have focused not just on social relations that used to be and ha…

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New Books in Sociology

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Chad M. Bauman, "Anti-Christian Violence in India" (Cornell UP, 2020) 48:05

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Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict any more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, and with particular attention to the 2007-08 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and how it pertains to bro…

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New Books in Sociology

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Roberta Zavoretti, "Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China" (U Washington Press, 2016) 1:07:09

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Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China (U Washington Press, 2016) probes long-he…

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New Books in Sociology

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Brad Vermurlen, "Reformed Resurgence: The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism" (Oxford UP, 2020) 48:36

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Since the turn of the millennium, American Evangelical Protestantism has seen a swell of interest in Calvinist theology. Variously described as the New Calvinism or Neo-Reformed Christianity, the latter half of the first decade saw a resurgence of Reformed theology, especially among younger Evangelicals. Brad Vermurlen presents an insightful sociol…

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New Books in Sociology

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David C. Lane, "Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers" (Rutgers UP, 2020) 49:06

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In The Other End of the Needle (Rutgers University Press, 2020), David C. Lane, Ph.D. investigates the intricacies of the tattoo industry. Particularly, Lane found that tattooing is more complex than simply the tattoos that people wear. Using qualitative data and an accessible writing style, Lane explains the complexity of tattoo work as a type of …

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New Books in Sociology

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Hilton L. Root, "Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 1:12:35

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Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narrative of progress, pundits and academics of all stripes find themselves struggling to explain the failed prediction that China’s increased activity in international markets would inevitably lead to inc…

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The Sociology Show

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Interview with Dr. Ali Meghji 30:46

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In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr Ali Meghji - A Lecturer in Social Inequalities at Magdelene College, University of Cambridge. In part 1 Ali talks about his publication: 'Black middle class Britannia: identities, repertoires, cultural consumption, racism, resistance and social change'. In part 2 Ali talks about his 2020 publication: 'Decolonizi…

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The Annex Sociology Podcast

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Brian McCabe on US Housing Policy*

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This week, The Annex sits down with Brian McCabe of Georgetown University. Brian is the author of No Place Like Home: Wealth Community and the Politics of Homeownership (2016, Oxford University Press). We discuss homeownership policy in the United States. Also, researcher misconduct charges were levied against one author of the Sokal Squared hoax, …

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New Books in Sociology

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Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai, "Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City" (Palgrave, 2020) 57:51

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In Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City (Palgrave, 2020), Heide Imai and Matjaz Ursic focues on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities. Filled with reflections based on interviews with a diverse range of creative actors in various local neighborhoods in T…

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New Books in Sociology

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M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020) 47:29

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Melissa Michelson and Brian Harrison, co-authors of the book Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017), which focused on how people came to change their minds about same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, examine their thesis from the previous research to determine if it is applicable to transgend…

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The Sociology Show

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Lockdown and online learning for Sociology 23:40

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In this episode, Matthew talks to 4 Sociology students about their experiences of learning online for Sociology under the current lockdown restrictions. Rosie, Juno, Bailey and Kitty outline some of the difficulties and benefits of working from home as well as their honest feedback into the type of lessons which are more or less beneficial to keep …

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New Books in Sociology

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Tom Holert, "Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics" (Sternberg Press, 2020) 47:00

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What is the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect? Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics (Sternberg Press, 2020) delves into the peculiar emphasis placed in recent years, curatorially and institutionally, on notions such as “research” and “knowledge …

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New Books in Sociology

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Barbara Dennis, "Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise" (Peter Lang, 2020) 1:16:07

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In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise, published in 2020 by Peter Lang Press. Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise features the IU-Unityville Outreach Project and tells the story of a 4-year-l…

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New Books in Sociology

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Lisa Wedeen, "Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 56:35

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How has the Syrian regime been able to bear the brunt of the challenges raised against it? And, what can we learn about the seductions of authoritarian politics more generally from the study of Syria? These questions animate Lisa Wedeen’s Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Her…

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The Sociology Show

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Interview with Dr Alex Blower 40:18

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In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr Alex Blower about his research on widening access to higher education. Alex talks about his qualitative research into this important issue and takes a particular focus on the issue of white, working class boys.Autor: Matthew Wilkin

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SAGE Sociology

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NLF - Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora 31:06

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This episode brings poetry to the crucial task of reinventing solidarity. New Labor Forum Editor Paula Finn hosts a conversation with award winning poet Javier Zamora, who at nine years old left his home in El Salvador and made his way, as an unaccompanied minor, through Guatemala and Mexico and across the Sonoran Desert to reunite with his parents…

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New Books in Sociology

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Nicholas Bartlett, "Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China" (U California Press, 2020) 1:23:46

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Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became “easier to buy than vegetables,” coincided with radical changes in the local economy caused by the marketization of the mining industry. More than two decades later, both the heroin epidemic a…

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New Books in Sociology

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Michael J. Sandel, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (FSG, 2020) 42:44

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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that you can make it if you try. The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and …

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New Books in Sociology

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D. Barno and N. Bensahel, "Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime" (Oxford UP, 2020) 1:02:01

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Few human enterprises are as complex, dynamic, and unpredictable as war. Armed conflict substitutes the relatively ordered reality of peace with the undeniably chaotic reality of combat. Militaries, by design, seek to make sense of and prepare for that chaos. And as long as there have been organized militaries, there have been military officers, th…

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New Books in Sociology

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Gracia Liu-Farrer, "Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society" (Cornell UP, 2020) 53:46

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Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want…

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New Books in Sociology

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David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson, "Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace" (HBR Press, 2020) 35:48

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Today I talked to David Smith and Brad Johnson about their new book Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace (HBR Press, 2020). This episode addresses some of the many ways in which women face challenges in the workplace, from pay equity issues, to sexual harassment, to being interrupted by men 3x more than men get interru…

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The Sociology Show

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The Sociology of Veganism with Dr. Stewart & Dr. Cole 42:14

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In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr. Kate Stewart from Nottingham Trent university and Dr. Matthew Cole from the Open University about their research on veganism. They discuss their own route into the topic and their personal journey into veganism, the impact of primary socialisation on children and food and also why the vegan movement has seen an…

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New Books in Sociology

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Robert Baker, "The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution" (MIT Press, 2019) 1:11:47

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We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, for example, and the proper role of women, have undergone paradigm shifts over the last several decades. In this book, Robert Baker argues that these…

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