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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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Author Bin Xu discusses the books, The Science and Art of Interviewing by Kathleen Gerson and Sarah Damaske, Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Data Analysis in Qualitative Research: Theorizing with Abductive Analysis by Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavo…
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Authors Steven Elias Alvarado and Alexandra Cooperstock discuss the article, "The Echo of Neighborhood Disadvantage: Multigenerational Contextual Hardship and Adult Income for Whites, Blacks, and Latinos," published in City & Community in June 2023.
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Consider some of the conflicts bubbling or boiling in the world today, and then plot where education – both schooling and less formal means of learning – fits in. Is it a victim, suffering from the conflict or perhaps a target of violence or repression? Maybe you see it as complicit in the violence, a perpetrator, so to speak. Or perhaps you see it…
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Authors Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank, and Evan Schofer discuss the article, "The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022," published in the February 2024 issue of American Sociological Review.
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The work of human hands retains evidence of the humans who created the works. While this might seem obvious in the case of something like a painting, where the artist’s touch is the featured aspect, it’s much less obvious in things that aren’t supposed to betray their humanity. Take the algorithms that power search engines, which are expected to pr…
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Author David Mickey-Pabello discusses the article, "The Anti-Affirmative Action Avalanche: The Rise of Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at For-Profit Institutions," published in the January 2024 issue of Sociology of Education.
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Author Aliza Luft discusses the article, "The Moral Career of the Genocide Perpetrator: Cognition, Emotions, and Dehumanization as a Consequence, Not a Cause, of Violence," published in the December 2023 issue of Sociological Theory.
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Most of us recognize the presence of ritual, whether in a religious observance, an athlete’s weird pre-competition tics, or even the cadence of our own morning ablutions. In general, most of these rituals are seen as harmless and probably a little unnecessary (or even silly). But according to cognitive anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas, ritual ofte…
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Authors Victoria E. Rodriguez and Laura E. Enriquez discuss the article, "Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation" published in the December 2023 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.…
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Authors Adrianne Frech and Sarah Damaske discuss the article, "The Myth of Men’s Stable, Continuous Labor Force Attachment: Multitrajectories of U.S. Baby Boomer Men’s Employment" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
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At the end of every interview that host David Edmonds conducts for the Social Science Bites podcast, he poses the same question: Whose work most influenced you? Those exchanges don’t appear in the regular podcast; we save them up and present them as quick-fire montages that in turn create a fascinating mosaic of the breadth and variety of the socia…
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Is giving to a charitable cause essentially equivalent to any other economic decision made by a human being, bounded by the same rational and irrational inputs as any other expenditure? Based on research by psychologist Deborah Small and others working in the area of philanthropy and altruism, the answer is a resounding no. In this Social Science B…
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On his institutional web homepage at the University of California-Los Angeles’s Anderson School of Management, psychologist Hal Hershfield posts one statement in big italic type: “My research asks, ‘How can we help move people from who they are now to who they’ll be in the future in a way that maximizes well-being?” In this Social Science Bites pod…
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Author Stephanie Dhuman discusses the article, "'Why Can’t We Have Some Kind of Unity?' Cultural Contention Amongst Puerto Rican and Black Residents in Southern Suburbia" published in the October 2023 issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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A common trope in America depicts a traditional family of a married husband and wife and their 2.5 (yes, 2.5) children as the norm, if not perhaps the ideal. Leaving aside the idea of a “traditional” coupling or what the right number of children might be, is there an advantage to growing up with married parents? Definitely, argues Melissa Kearney, …
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Author Matthew Parbst discusses the article, "The Effect of Welfare State Policy Spending on the Equalization of Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Mental Health" published in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
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Author Barbara Kiviat discusses the article, "The Moral Affordances of Construing People as Cases: How Algorithms and the Data They Depend on Obscure Narrative and Noncomparative Justice," published in the September 2023 issue of Sociological Theory.
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While it seems intuitively obvious that good management is important to the success of an organization, perhaps that obvious point needs some evidence given how so many institutions seem to muddle through regardless. Enter Raffaela Sadun, the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and co-leader of the Digi…
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Author Amanda Mireles discusses the article, "Blended Pedagogy in Social Statistics Courses: Prelecture Strategies for Encouraging Learning among First-Generation College Students," published in the July 2023 issue of Teaching Sociology.
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Authors Simone Ispa-Landa and Sara E. Thomas discuss the article, "Navigating the Risks of Party Rape in Historically White Greek Life at an Elite College: Women’s Accounts," published in the July 2023 issue of Sociology of Education.
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“We have been evolving into a species that is super-cooperative: we work together with strangers, we can empathize with people, we are really an empathic flock,” begins Carsten de Dreu, a professor at Leiden University. “And at the same time, there is increasing evidence from archaeological excavations all around the world that already 10, 20 and 3…
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Author Cleothia Frazier discusses the article, "Working Around the Clock: The Association between Shift Work, Sleep Health, and Depressive Symptoms among Midlife Adults," published in the July 2023 issue of Society and Mental Health.
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In the Global North, media and political depictions of migration tend to be relentless images of little boats crossing bodies of water or crowds of people stacking up at a dotted line on a map. These depictions presume two things – that this is a generally comprehensive picture of migration and that, regardless of where you stand, the situation aro…
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