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Making It In India (Beaman, Magbouleh and Inglis)
The Assistant Professor Annex Takeover concludes with Jean Beaman (UC Santa Barbara), Neda Magabouleh (University of Toronto) and special guest Patrick Inglis (Grinnell College). In this episode, the gang discusses Patrick’s work on social mobility in India.
Jean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She recently published Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France with University of California Press.
Neda Magbouleh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She recently published The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian-Americans & the Everyday Politics of Race with Stanford University Press.
Patrick Inglis is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. He recently published Narrow Fairways: Getting By and Falling Behind in the New India with Oxford University Press.
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Criticizing Lana Del Rey (Rachel Skaggs)
Lana Del Rey’s new album has received praise, but her negative reaction to a mixed review on NPR recently made news. We discuss the tightrope of criticizing popular artists, the role of persona in artistic production, and the finer details of criticizing celebrities’ work.
In addition to in-house expert Gabriel Rossman (UCLA), author of the acclaimed Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation (Princeton University Press), this episode also features Rachel Skaggs, who has recently published research on country music songwriting.
Rachel Skaggs is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. She recently published “Socializing Rejection and Failure in Artistic Occupational Communities” in Work and Occupations, and will soon publish “Harmonizing Small Group Cohesion and Status in Creative Collaborations: How Songwriters Facilitate and Manipulate the Co-Writing Process.” in Social Psychology Quarterly.
Country Music Songwriting (Rachel Skaggs)
Rachel Skaggs (Ohio State University) is a sociologist of culture who studies creative professions. In this episode, we discuss her participant observation research on country music songwriting. She deserves the role that accepting failure, collaboration, and learning to deal with gatekeepers shape careers.
Rachel Skaggs is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. She recently published “Socializing Rejection and Failure in Artistic Occupational Communities” in Work and Occupations, and will soon publish “Harmonizing Small Group Cohesion and Status in Creative Collaborations: How Songwriters Facilitate and Manipulate the Co-Writing Process.” in Social Psychology Quarterly.
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Upper-Middle Class American Parenting
The Annex Sociology Podcast examines an article in the New York Times Upshot’ discussing a high intensity parenting style.
Discussants
Kristina Scharp is an Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of Washington. Her forthcoming articles include “Making Meaning of the Parent-Child Relationship: A Dialogic Analysis of Parent-Initiated Estrangement Narratives” in the Journal of Family Communication, and “‘You’re Not Welcome Here’: A Grounded Theory of Family Distancing” in Communication Research.
Joseph Nathan Cohen co-hosts The Annex and directs the Sociocast Project. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, Queens College. He wrote Financial Crisis in American Households: The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class (2017, Praeger) and co-authored Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective (2010, Polity). Twitter: @jncohen
Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine(2017 University of Minnesota Press).
Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman
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Old Town Road and Authentic Country Music
We discuss Old Town Road, a viral hit that rose to the top of the country music chart, and was subsequently delisted.
Cristobal Young is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich (2017, Stanford University Press). Twitter: @cristobalyoung5
Cancel Culture
Today, we discuss “cancel culture”, demands that cultural products are removed from public distribution and circulation when their creators are enmeshed in moral transgressions. The topic has come up in relation to several celebrities, including Roseanne, Louis C.K., R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Tucker Carlson.
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Why It Pays to be Privileged (Daniel Laurison)
An interview with Daniel Laurison (Swarthmore) about his new book, The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to be Privileged, which explains how social class helps the privleged.
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Claudio Benzecry
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En el Episodio 7 de Sociología con Acento, conversamos con Claudio Benzecry, autor de El Fanático de la Ópera, sobre las idas y vueltas sociológicas entre Argentina y Estados Unidos, su trabajo en sociología de la cultura y teoría social, su etnografía de los seguidores de ópera en Argentina, su nuevo trabajo sobre diseño de zapatos entre China, New York, y Brasil, y sobre su libro co-editado Social Theory Now. Claudio estudió en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y New York University, y hoy enseña en Northwestern University, EE.UU.
Robert Wuthnow on Small Town America’s Distress
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This week, The Annex is thrilled to sit down with Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University. Robert just published The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America with Princeton University Press. We talk about the challenges facing small towns, the roots of their disaffect, and the politics that this distress creates.
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Hugo José Suarez
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En el cuarto episodio de Sociología con Acento, conversamos con Hugo José Suarez sobre sus recorridos en la sociología de la cultura y de la religión, la relación entre sociología y antropología en México, y sobre su último libro, Hacer sociología sin darse cuenta. Hugo es boliviano, estudió en Bélgica, Brasil y México, y es profesor del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
