Steak Umm
We meet the person behind the Steak Umm Twitter account, and learn how a commercial meat product used sociology to gain social media follows.
Valuing Public Scholarship (Marybeth Stalp)
How much should the discipline value public scholarship? What to make of public scholarship on new media?
The Pressure to Go Partisan
We ask discuss recent psych findings that might suggest why there’s a pressure to go partisan when doing public scholarship.
Are Sociologists Trying Hard Enough?
A discussion about Fabio Rojas’ contention that sociologists’ failure to prioritize public impact hinders their influence over policy.
Communicating the Limits of our Knowledge
We discuss whether social scientists do enough to communicate the limits of their knowledge in public debate.