by Jack Delehanty on April 14, 2017
at Office Hours
Our guest today is Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and the director of the Scholar Strategy Network, a network of professors that seeks to improve public policy and strengthen democracy by organizing scholars working in America’s colleges and universities, and connecting them and their research to […]
by Jack Delehanty on Oct. 25, 2016
at Teaching TSP
Over the past year, I’ve had a number of conversations about teaching writing with faculty members teaching courses ranging from Intro to Methods to Senior Projects. These courses require different kinds of writing and different modes of thinking. Intro instructors are most concerned with description, that is, teaching students how to describe sociological patterns they […]
by Jack Delehanty on Sept. 20, 2016
at Teaching TSP
Most sociology teachers want to teach writing. The problem is they don’t have time. With dozens or hundreds of students, meeting one-on-one with even a small fraction of those who need help is impossible, and since students’ writing skills vary significantly, it’s difficult to draw up in-class lessons that will help students at all levels. […]
In this episode, host Jack Delehanty speaks with Stanford sociologist Doug McAdam, whose 2014 co-authored book Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America traces the roots of polarization in today’s politics back to the national struggle over civil rights in the 1960s. In their conversation, Jack and Doug focus particularly on tensions […]
Ion Bogdan Vasi, Edward T. Walker, John S. Johnson, Hui Fen Tan, “’No Fracking Way!’ Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013,” American Sociological Review, 2015 Films like An Inconvenient Truth, Super Size Me, and Blackfish can heighten attention to issues by disseminating important facts […]
My research analyzes how movement organizations can reframe dominant social narratives about inequality. My dissertation examines how cultural and demographic transitions in American religion are giving rise to new religious discourses of race and poverty.
