Teaching Sociology - One World, Many Sto...

Author Alex V. Barnard discusses the article, "Conservatorships: Coercion without Care or Control" published in the Spring 2025 issue of Contexts. 

Authors Gwendolyn Purifoye and Derrick Brooms discuss the article, "Without Risk Reduction: How Black Men’s Well-being and Humanity Are Compromised in Mobile Public Spaces" published in the July 2025 issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 

Author Katherine Jensen discusses the article, "Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought: Content and Structure in the United States" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 

Laurie Taylor explores the meaning and purpose of public sociology with Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of a new book which describes his own contribution to reshaping the theory and practice of sociology across the Wes ... Show More

How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago) and Victoria Reyes (assistant professor of sociology at the University of C ... Show More

L’invité : Vincent Capdepuy, enseignant et géohistorien Le livre : Le monde ou rien, histoire d’un concept géographique, Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2023. La discussion : Introduction (00:00) Une réflexion dans la longue durée sur la notion de « monde » (00:00) Œcoumène ... Show More

How can we challenge and change inequalities? In Seeing Others: How Recognition Works— and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Atria, 2023), Michele Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, at Ha ... Show More

Les invité-e-s : Pierre François, directeur de recherche en sociologie au CNRS ; Claire Lemercier, directrice de recherche en histoire au CNRS Le livre : Sociologie historique du capitalisme, Paris, La découverte, 2021. La discussion : La genèse d’un livre qui est un manuel et se ... Show More

Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge, 2024) edited By Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an ... Show More

Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is n ... Show More

To be human is to question. This act of questioning is the essence of philosophy, as it allows ontology and epistemology to exist. For example, to understand what it is to be we must first ask the question of what it is to be. This insight, of the primacy of questioning, is at th ... Show More

Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in the social sciences, moving beyond the publication process often require ... Show More

How can sociology help us understand art and music? In The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), the editor Lisa McCormick, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Edinburgh, draws together the latest resea ... Show More