Episodes
- Daniel Silver reads Georg Simmel
- Andrea S. Boyles reads Patricia Hill Collins
- William Turner on W.E.B. Du Bois
- Christine Goding-Doty reads Aimé Césaire
- Amanda McMillan Lequieu on Yi-Fu Tuan
- Daniel Silver reads Adam Smith
- Mary Peterson reads Iris Marion Young
- Jacqui Frost on Max Weber
- Hannah McCann on Judith Butler
- Ugo Corte on Gary Alan Fine
- Kelly Underman reads Lauren Berlant
- Kelly Underman on Lauren Berlant
- Amanda McMillan Lequieu reads Kai Erikson
- Andrew McCumber reads Raymond Williams
- Christopher Matthews on Nick Crossley
- Christopher Matthews reads Nick Crossley
- Matthew Clair on W. E. B. Du Bois
- Michael DeLand reads Herbert Blumer
- Michael DeLand on Herbert Blumer
- Jennifer McClearen on Herman Gray
- Elizaveta Lepikhova on Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
- Jonathan Wynn on Erving Goffman
- Fabio Rojas on Theory for the Working Sociologist
- Alex Channon on Stephen Lyng and Edgework
- Jocelyn Viterna on Teaching Our Ugly Roots
- Anna Goulding on Elinor Ostrom
- Shai Dromi reads Luc Boltanski
- Shai Dromi on Luc Boltanski
- Jeff Guhin on Charles Taylor
- Tina Sikka reads Helen Longino
- Neil Gong on Norbert Elias
- Hannah McCann reads Sara Ahmed
- Anas Karzai on Friedrich Nietzsche
- Shamus Khan reads Thomas Hobbes
- Shamus Khan on Teaching the Canon
- Saida Grundy on W.E.B. Du Bois
- Hannah McCann and Whitney Monaghan on Queer Theory
- Angela Jones reads W.E.B. Du Bois
- Angela Jones on W.E.B. Du Bois
- Rachel O’Neill on Rosalind Gill
- Madeleine Pape on Anne Fausto-Sterling
- Jaclyn Wypler on Learning to Love Theory
- Ricarda Hammer on Stuart Hall
- Seth Abrutyn on Social Distance, Grief, and COVID-19
- Amy Guptill on Niklas Luhmann
- Richard Pringle on Michel Foucault
- Erin McDonnell on Max Weber
- Daniel Winchester on Pierre Bourdieu
- Elliot Weininger on Pierre Bourdieu
- Pirkko Markula on Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault
- Anna Hickey-Moody on Gilles Deleuze
- Elise Paradis on John Meyer
- Stefano Bloch on Henri Lefebvre
- Clifton Evers on Raewyn Connell
- Tristan Bridges on Raewyn Connell
- Alex Manning on Annette Lareau
- Stephen Suh on Edward Said
- Timothy Recuber on Colin Campbell
- Jaime Kucinskas on George Herbert Mead
- Seth Abrutyn on Émile Durkheim
- Jeffrey Montez de Oca on Karl Marx
- Douglas Hartmann on Cyril Lionel Robert James
Upcoming Episodes
- Rahsaan Mahadeo on Denise Ferreira da Silva
- Daniel Silver reads Georg Simmel
- Seth Abrutyn on TBA
- Anna Goulding on Karen Barad
- Alexandre White on TBD
- Meridith Hall on TBD
- Erin Johnston on Arlie Hochschild
- Beverly Yuen Thompson on Howard Beck
- Isaac Ariail Reed reads Hannah Arendt
Theorists
Adam Smith
Aimé Césaire
American Pragmatists
Annette Lareau
C.L.R. James
Colin Campbell
Edward Said
Elinor Ostrom
Erving Goffman
Franz Fanon
Gary Alan Fine
George Herbert Mead
Georg Simmel
Gilles Deleuze
Harold Garfinkel
Henri Lefebvre
Herbert Blumer
Herman Gray
Iris Marion Young
John Meyer
Judith Butler
Kai Erikson
Karl Marx
Lauren Berlant
Luc Boltanski
Max Weber
Michel Foucault
Niklas Luhmann
Patricia Hill Collins
Peter Berger
Pierre Bourdieu
Queer Theory
Raewyn Connell
Randall Collins
Raymond Williams
Rosalind Gill
Sara Ahmed
Simone de Beauvoir
Stephen Lyng
Talcott Parsons
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Luckmann
W.E.B. Du Bois
Yi-Fu Tuan
Émile Durkheim
About Give Theory A Chance
Kyle Green is the host and producer of Give Theory a Chance and Give Methods a Chance. When not attempting to bring life to theory through discussing the foundational ideas that inspire thought and action, Kyle works as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport.
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