After a lengthy break, we’re back! Racism in hockey, Work It, and The Trap are among our topics this episode. Enjoy!
Otherwise Occupied
The Fascist Hippie Drum Circle
This week we talk about Occupy Wall Street and other Occupations. Links mentioned in the show:
Undrunk
This episode, we fail to talk about Robocop, then we have a discussion about Getting Wasted, and then chat a bit about current political events.
The Circle of Life
After a quick ASA recap from Jesse and Arturo, we talk about the challenges of writing—and academic writing in particular—and whether diversity on television can make a difference.
We’ve Got Something You Should Read
Long time, no see. Hope you’re having a nice summer. We’re back with two topics.
First, we spend most of the hour talking about barefoot running, the Born to Run crowd, and naturalist (no, not naturist) social movements.
Second, we briefly try to make sense of the London riots, but ultimately Chris wins out by convincing Arturo and Jon they know nothing and should just stop talking.
We are not happy. We are not cool.
This episode we talk about a recent paper about happiness (via Graphic Sociology) and whether or not happiness studies actually tell us anything about happiness. After that, we follow-up on an argument Chris made last episode about “being cool” as a cause of human social behavior.
The sound is a little rough this week as three out of the four of us were actually in the same room for a change, which is actually harder to record than four people in four different cities using Skype.
The New Consensi
Two topics this week:
First, Arturo jumps off from a recent New Books in Sociology episode to ask whether or not sociology is too set in making repetitive and uncreative arguments.
Second, Chris takes us on a tour through the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top 200, with a stop at the Grammy Album of the Year, partially in response to this article on Hysteria and pop music.
Note: Jon accidentally posted the link to last episode when initially creating this post. If you got the wrong file, please redownload now. Sorry!
Call Us Princess
Two segments this week:
First, Chris gives a shout out to Sociological Images for their post on Push Up Bikini Tops at Abercrombie Kids, which inspires a discussion about gender and childhood culture.
Second, a discussion about Ebooks, Amazon, DRM, and the fate of public knowledge.
Links:
Dr. Jesus
Because Arturo is obsessed with Glenn Beck, conversation begins there, but quickly moves to government shutdowns, the way economists approach social problems, and we return to last episode’s discussion about education.
Links from this episode:
- Freakonomics, the movie (Netflix)
- Planet Money
- Office Hours: with Doug Downey, with Maria Kefalas
- Leon Botstein on education
The Sociology Improv: Part II
Podcasting and procrastination, nuclear power and scientific knowledge, the problem with high schools, and the situation in Libya. Links:
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