Podcast Categories: Social Sciences

Over the last two decades, the number of our American incarcerated has reached an unprecedented peak of more than 2 million. The nation’s swelling inmate population has turned prisons into a $50 billion a year industry. Go behind the bars for an in-depth report from inside the American corrections system.
In Corrections, Inc. explore who prospers in the new prison economy, and how their interests shape who gets locked and for how long. Enter the dark isolation of the Supermax prisons in Locked Down. In Hard Time, follow inmates in North Carolina as they face life after prison.

This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention is paid to social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim

Intro to Cultural & Social Anthropology (ASB 102) explores principles of cultural and social anthropology, with
illustrative materials from a variety of cultures. Come examine the nature of culture through social, political, and economic systems and study religious, aesthetic, and linguistic traits.

This course seeks to further understanding of the thought processes of individuals who break society’s laws. Biological, psychological, educational, and situational factors are examined along with the types of crimes committeed.

In this long-awaited positive psychology podcast by researcher Hugo Alberts, Ph.D. and entrepreneur Seph Fontane Pennock, you will learn practical strategies for increasing mental well-being. Your hosts will not only discuss topics like meaning, gratitude, and strengths but will also reveal their private stories to show you how they put the science behind positive psychology into practice.

”Through the Eyes of a Therapist Podcast”, Host-Cristal M. Acosta, TX LPC-Supervisor, Board Certified Counselor, lets you in on what it’s like to be a mental health professional. Enjoy fun, educational, and candid discussions about therapy, mental health, and psychology. Humanizing therapists, destigmatizing mental health, and demystifying therapy.

Priya Hubbard and Jessica Borges invite their friend Keith over for rosé to tell him about their in-depth investigation of one of the biggest crime lab scandals of the century.

Join Mental Health America as we have open conversations about mental health. We’re a group of people who want to change the way our communities talk about mental health. On this podcast, we share our lives, fight in the open, and work together to just figure things out.

Two professionals in the field of psychology from wildly different theoretical and practical orientations getting together to take a look at the dark side of the human condition.