Annex Sociology Podcast

Recent Episodes

Steak Umm

September 27, 2021

We meet the person behind the Steak Umm Twitter account, and learn how a commercial meat product used sociology to gain social media follows.

Frontiers of Neurosociology (Firat, Michalska & Kalkhoff)

September 20, 2021

We discuss research at the intersection of brain science and social science.

Structural Sexism and Religion (Patricia Homan)

September 13, 2021

We discuss structural sexism with Patricia Homan (Florida State University)

Christian Nationalism (Perry & Perrin)

May 17, 2021

A look at Christian nationalism

A More Radical Sociology (Michelle Jackson)

May 10, 2021

A discussion about radicalism in sociology

Police & Race (Roscigno, Prieto-Hodge & Ture)

May 3, 2021

The complicated relationship between the police and America’s African-American community.

Selections from the Vault

False Notions of Objectivity?

October 4, 2017

We discuss ASA Presidential candidate Mary Romero’s platform statement, in which she calls for us to do away with “false notions of objectivity”.

Economists’ Influence (Elizabeth Berman)

December 13, 2017

The gang meet Elizabeth Popp-Berman (SUNY Albany), author of Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, about her new work on the influence of economics thinking.

Educational Achievement & Asian-Americans (Arthur Sakamoto)

April 29, 2019

An interview with Arthur Sakamoto from Texas A&M about explanations of Asian-Americans’ high educational achievement, and attributing this achievement to Asian culture.