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Sociology June 29, 2020

You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer

Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism

Tsedale Melaku

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession? Tsedale Melaku explores this question and more in her new book: You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black …
Sociology May 15, 2020

Rapid Ethnographic Assessments

A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Karen Kroeger

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How can researchers gather information quickly, for instance in the times of COVID-19? In their new book, Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research (Routledge …
Sociology May 13, 2020

Ballad of the Bullet

Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy

Forrest Stuart

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power? In his new book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy …
Sociology March 9, 2020

Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming

Analysing Reddit’s r/gaming Community

Marcus Maloney, Steven Roberts, and Timothy Graham

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities? In their new book Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing …
Sociology February 24, 2020

The New Noir

Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia

Orly Clergé

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape …
Sociology January 30, 2020

You Can’t Stop the Revolution

Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America

Andrea S. Boyles

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (University of California Press, 2019), Andrea …
Sociology December 23, 2019

Dying for Rights

Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record

Sandra Fahy

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for North …
Sociology December 9, 2019

Separated

Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid

William D. Lopez

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids? William D. Lopez answers this question and more in his new book Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an …
Sociology October 29, 2019

Empathy Beyond US Borders

The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement

Gary J. Adler, Jr.

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Gary …
Sociology October 21, 2019

Gathering Social Network Data

jimi adams

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What is social network data and what are the issues associated with collecting it? In his new book Gathering Social Network Data (Sage, 2019), jimi adams focuses on the principles …
Sociology June 28, 2019

Making Motherhood Work

How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

Caitlyn Collins

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores …
Sociology December 27, 2018

The Gay Marriage Generation

How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture

Peter Hart-Brinson

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How and why did public opinions about gay marriage shift? In his new book, The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture (New York University Press, 2018) …
Sociology October 12, 2018

Seduction

Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy

Rachel O'Neill

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How does the seduction, or “pick-up artist,” industry work? In her new book Seduction: Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018), Rachel O’Neill provides a sociological analysis of the seduction …
Sociology September 24, 2018

Inequalities of Aging

Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Elana Buch

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How are the vulnerabilities of older adults in need of care and their care workers intertwined? In Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care (New York University …
Sociology September 17, 2018

Young Working-Class Men in Transition

Steven Roberts

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do young working-class men experience the transition to adulthood? In his new book Young Working-Class Men in Transition (Routledge, 2018), Steven Roberts talks directly to young men to gain …
Sociology September 13, 2018

Black Boys Apart

Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools

Freeden Blume Oeur

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do schools empower but also potentially emasculate young black men? In his new book, Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press …
Sociology August 13, 2018

Cannabis Discourse

Facts and Opinions in Context 

Jacob Levine

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What is the landscape of our cannabis knowledge? In his new book Jacob Levine author of the Cannabis Discourse: Facts and Opinions in Context (Jacob Levine, 2018) gives readers an …
Sociology August 8, 2018

Building the Prison State

Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Heather Schoenfeld

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How did prisons become a tool of racial inequality? Using historical data, Heather Schoenfeld’s new book Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago …
Sociology August 6, 2018

Retirements and its Discontents

Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can

Michelle Pannor Silver

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do different professionals experience retirement? Michelle Pannor Silver’s new book Retirements and its Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can (Columbia University Press, 2018), explores this …
Sociology July 26, 2018

Meltdown

Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How can we learn from large system failures? In their new book Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Penguin Press, 2018), Chris Clearfield and …
Sociology July 24, 2018

Keeping it Halal

The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys

John O’Brien

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What do the social worlds of teenage Muslim American boys look like? What issues do they grapple with and how do they think about issues that arise in their everyday …
Sociology July 17, 2018

Christians Under Covers

Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet

Kelsy Burke

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do we conceptualize religious conservatives and their relationship with sex? And how do Christians use digital media for sexual knowledge and pleasure? In her new book, Christians Under Covers …
Sociology June 5, 2018

Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada

Barry Eidlin

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do unions and ideas around labor compare between the U.S. and Canada? And how did they come to be as they are today? In his new book, Labor and …
Sociology May 31, 2018

Stick Together and Come Back Home

Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity

Patrick Lopez-Aguado

Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do systems of incarceration influence racial sorting inside and outside of prisons? And how do the social structures within prisons spill out into neighborhoods? In his new book, Stick …