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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. 

Author Mary Gallagher discusses the article, "Identity Characteristics As Moderators of Discrepancy on Well-being," published in the July 2025 issue of Society and Mental Health. 

In this episode, Mathew talks to Emma Duffy and Jack Cunningham from Sociology North. Sociology NORTH is a collective of individuals who are passionate about Sociology. Their project is essentially about putting Sociology into action, making the subject more accessible and relata ... Show More

How did American elites change the meaning of Art? In Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts (Princeton University Press, 2019), Jennifer C. Lena, associate professor of arts administration at Colombia University, charts the history of American arts and cul ... Show More

We are joined by philosopher and Marxist intellectual Gabriel Rockhill to discuss the relevance and importance of the recently translated work, Western Marxism (Monthly Review Press, 2024) by Domenico Losurdo. In this discussion, we analyze Losurdo's book with a focus on extracti ... Show More

The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, justice, equality, and autonomy, there is also an increasing reliance on ideas like misinformation, bias, expertise, and propaganda. Th ... Show More

“There is a tremendous tension between healthy democracy and deep economic inequalities. I don't think that, in the long run, democracies can survive in a healthy way unless we address the problem of economic inequalities. If we have individuals who are living day to day, on the ... Show More

“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.”—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the dominant trends in modern European intellect ... Show More

In the 1970s and early 1980s, when Shinobu Kitayama was studying psychology at Kyoto University, Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Attribution Theory were “really hot topics” that he found “intellectually interesting” ways of describing human behavior. “But when I came here [to the ... Show More

Subscribe to Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com On this episode of Inner Experience, Craig, Adam, and Will are joined by Micah, who is a grad student in the field of critical psychology. The focus of the discussion ... Show More

One of the most radical things you can do is live your life in direct opposition to the forces that control our society. Not just fighting for policies or organizing your community, although those are certainly important parts of it, but also living with values that oppose the va ... Show More

Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the deep history of Korean anarchism and how it led to one of the great experiments with antiauthoritarian social structure of the 20th century. Part 1/4 Sources: Shin Chae-ho, "Declaration of the Korean Revolution;" Ha Ki-rak, "A History of the ... Show More