Daniel Chambliss joins us to discuss The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on the Stratification of Swimmers, first published in Sociological Theory in 1989. This episode is the debut of a new format in which guests share life lessons that can be taken from their favorite social theory, or in this case, their own research.
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Dr. Earl Smith — July 23, 2025
WOW! Nice to hear this.
one of the best papers I ever read. It helped shape what became my book Race, Sport & American Dream.