Michael Goldman and Wes Longhofer drop by to talk about their Winter 2009 Contexts feature, Making World Cities. Michael and Wes have spent extensive time in Bangalore, India studying the effects of globalization on Indian cities. Listen in as they explain the complications, contradictions and paradoxes of cities in this global age.
Also, Jesse shares a discovery about the narrowing gender gap in drunk driving arrests from Criminology.
Paul Mattessich and Ela Rausch from Wilder Research stop by to discuss how they use social science research to help communities improve their quality of life. Be sure to check out their article in our Winter 2009 issue, Communities that Don’t Bowl in the Fog.
In our Discoveries segment, Tim Ortyl discusses the first representative GLBT survey in California and how it improves our knowledge of the GLBT community.
This episode, Jon and Jesse chat with Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp about Sociological Images. Highlights include the secrets of of Sociological Image’s success, the relationship between research and blogging, and the usefulness of trolls.
Also, Arturo shares his Discovery of the Week, a paper in JECH finding that living near highway entrances increases risk of preterm birth and low birthweight for the rich, but not the poor.
In this episode, Jesse and Arturo learn about women from our Fall 2008 batch of Discoveries and also sit down for an interview with Jen’nan Read, author of Muslism in America in our Fall 2008 issue.
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Next Week: we interview Francesca Polleta about Storytelling in Politics.
