Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books
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episode 61: Tricia Bruce, "Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church" (Oxford UP, 2017)
What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?
Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: The Experiences of Minoritised Groups" (Routledge, 2019)
Who is excluded from science?
episode 85: Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Borenstein discusses popular conspiracy theories such as the Harvard Project and the Dulles Plan, why and how conspiratorial thinking has flourished in post-Soviet Russia
Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories" (Princeton UP, 2011)
What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?
Leta Hong Fincher, "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China" (Verso, 2018)
Hong Fincher makes the case that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state...
episode 339: Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)
What does it take for all girls to achieve?
episode 102: Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.
episode 101: Laurence Cox, "Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Cox highlights how social movements have shaped the world we live in and their importance for today’s social struggles...
episode 336: Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)
Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...
episode 25: John Komlos, "Foundations of Real-World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know" (Routledge, 2019)
Komlos argues that the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism and the other populist movements which have followed in their wake ‘have grown out of the frustrations of those hurt by the economic policies advocated by conventional economists....