Annex Sociology Podcast

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How Society Handles Mental Health Problems Jan 20, 2020

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Today, we discuss how society handles its mental health problems. Our guest is Neil Gong from the University of Michigan. Neil recently published "Between Tolerant Containment an d Concerted Constraint: Managing Madness for the City and the Privileged Family" in the American Sociological Review.

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Internet Mob Justice Jan 13, 2020

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Today's episode of The Annex discusses Internet mob justice in the face of unsolved crimes. We ask what happens when the Internet tries to solve an urgent crime through collaborations on social media and Internet forums.

Our guest is Penn Pantumsinchai from the University of Hawaii. Penn published "Armchair detectives and the social construction of falsehoods: an actor–network approach" in Information, Communication, and Society. She also co-hosts a sociology podcast called The Social Breakdown, which we covered earlier this year.

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Financialization of Higher Education (Charlie Eaton) Jan 06, 2020

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We meet with Charlie Eaton (University of California, Merced) to discuss the increasing role of finance in higher education. Charlie was recently the lead author of "The Financialization of U.S. Higher Education" in Socio-Economic Review.

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Valuing Public Scholarship (Marybeth Stalp) Dec 16, 2019

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In this episode, we discuss #scicomm, its role in academic work, and its intersection with gender in the academic workplace. What is the value of a scholar's production on new media?

Our guest today is Marybeth Stalp from the University of Northern Iowa. We are also joined by special guest host Sarah Patterson from the University of Michigan.

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A Masculine Cure for Toxic Masculinity? (Marybeth Stalp) Dec 13, 2019

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Today, The Annex discusses a recent article in Harper's, which describes a commercial male retreat that is designed to address the ill effects of toxic masculinity.

Our guest today is Marybeth Stalp from the University of Northern Iowa. We are also joined by special guest host Sarah Patterson from the University of Michigan.

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First Round Recommendation Letters (Marybeth Stalp) Dec 11, 2019

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Should departments be asking for first-round letters when hiring professors?

Our guest today is Marybeth Stalp from the University of Northern Iowa. We are also joined by special guest host Sarah Patterson from the University of Michigan.

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What the Study of Leisure Teaches Us About Families (Marybeth Stalp) Dec 09, 2019

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Today, we meet Marybeth Stalp, whose recent work on the sociology quilting explores the intersection of leisure, gender, and family.

Our guest today is Marybeth Stalp from the University of Northern Iowa. We are also joined by special guest host Sarah Patterson from the University of Michigan.

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Dutch Sociology (Kuipers, Jaspers, Ivanova & Boy) Dec 04, 2019

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Today, The Annex explores the present state of sociology in the Netherlands, and the major issue of concern facing Dutch sociologists. This episode features special guest hosts Katya Ivanova and John Boy, and features guests Giselinde Kuipers and Eva Jaspers.

Giselinde Kuipers is research professor at the Catholic University Leuven. She is the author of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke and is currently writing a book about beauty as taste and duty.

Eva Jaspers is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Utrecht

Katya Ivanova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tillburg University. Her current work focuses on the strength of intergenerational ties and individual well-being in stepfamilies, with a particular focus on the stepmother role. Twitter: @katyaoivanova

John Boy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Leiden University, and affiliate with Leiden's Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. He is working on a book about Instagram and how the platform is shaping cities, social movements and lifestyles with Justus Uitermark. Twitter: @jboy

This episode is part of Sociocast's continuing International Perspectives on Sociology series, in which we feature sociologists from outside the United States to discuss the major issues facing our discipline in other countries. Check out our past episodes on sociology in Canada and Ireland.

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Literary Criticism (Phillipa Chong) Dec 02, 2019

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Today, we meet Phillipa Chong from McMaster University. We discuss her upcoming book, Inside the Critics' Circle (Princeton University Press) about literary criticism.

Special guest host Clayton Childress (University of Toronto).

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The Bosnian War (Adis Maksic) Nov 27, 2019

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For our Thanksgiving episode, we have a special treat: two outstanding scholars of ethnic politics and genocide discuss the Bosnian War.

Adis Maksic is an Assistant Professor at International Burch University in Sarajevo. He published Ethnic Mobilization, Violence, and the Politics of Affect: The Serb Democratic Party and the Bosnian War (Palgrave). Not only is Adis an expert on the Bosnian War, but he experienced these events firsthand as a youth in Sarajevo.

Aliza Luft is an Assistant Professor at UCLA. She was featured in previous episodes of The Annex, and published “Toward a Dynamic Theory of Action at the Micro-Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda” in Sociological Theory.