Everyday Sociology Blog

Everyday Sociology Talk: Brian Powell on Defining Families

 

Karen Sternheimer interviews Brian Powell, author of Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family.

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Robert Sampson on Communities and Crises

  

Robert Sampson, author of Great American City, discusses how crises impact communities differently with Karen Sternheimer.

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Nikki Jones on Managing Relationships with Research Informants

 

Nikki Jones, author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence, discusses how she negotiated relationships with the people she studied in her field research.

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Robert Sampson and how Communities Become Poverty Traps

 

Robert Sampson, author of Great American City, discusses his research on communities and poverty with Karen Sternheimer.

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Nikki Jones on Commodifying the "Ghetto"

 

Sociologist Nikki Jones, author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence, discusses the commodification of the "ghetto" with Karen Sternheimer.

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Robert Sampson on the Importance of Neighborhoods

Karen Sternheimer recently interviewed Robert Sampson about his new book, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.

 

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Nikki Jones and the Meaning of "Ghetto"

Karen Sternheimer interviews sociologist Nikki Jones about her book, Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence.

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Joel Best on Fears about Halloween Candy Poisoning

 

Karen Sternheimer talks to Joel Best about fears about Halloween candy and the construction of social problems.

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Everyday Sociology Talk: The Fashion Industry Labor Market

Sociologist Ashley Mears, author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model, discusses the nature of the fashion labor market with Karen Sternheimer.

 

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Everyday Sociology Talk: Sharon Zukin on Las Vegas

This year at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas we interviewed many sociologists about their work. Here, Sharon Zukin, urban sociologist and author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, talks about why she is not a fan of Las Vegas.