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This Week in Sociological Perspective
by Samuel Roundfield Lucas
(Video)Economists talk money. Politicians talk government. On This Week in Sociological Perspective we talk money, politics, and everything else that makes the world go ‘round, offering insight on society, public affairs, and news of the week. Guest authors join your host, UC-Berkeley Professor Samuel Roundfield Lucas, to transcend the headlines through fascinating research in sociology.
Episodes
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TWiSP 2022 M09 Thu22 Video
This week we discuss a woman in England who uses her drone in service to others. And, I recently spoke with Professor Scott Duxbury of the University of North Carolina about his recent paper titled "The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police...
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TWiSP 2022 M09 Thu15 Video
This week we discuss the insertion of a new player in the fight to reform policing in the United States. And, I recently spoke with Dr. Robert Bozick, Director of the Houston Population Research Center of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, about his recent paper titled…
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TWiSP 2022 M09 Thu08 Video
This week we discuss results from the natural experiment of COVID-era remote instruction for 9 year olds. But first, I recently spoke with Professor Carly Knight of New York University about her recent paper titled "Classifying the corporation: the role of naturalizing analogies in American...
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TWiSP 2022 M09 Thu01 Video
This week we discuss emerging controversy in how reporters cover wildfires. And, I recently spoke with Geoffrey Wodtke, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, about his recent paper titled "Toxic Neighborhoods: The Effects of Concentrated Poverty and Environmental Lead...
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TWiSP 2022 M08 Thu11 Video
This week we discuss citizen stakeouts of ballot drop-boxes. And, I recently spoke with Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, about his recent paper titled "Spatial Mismatch and the Share of Black, Hispanic, and White Students Enrolled in Charter...
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TWiSP 2022 M08 Thu04 Video
This week we discuss national implications of some of the characteristics advertised as amenities on Airbnb. But first, I recently spoke with Nicolo Pinchak of Ohio State University about his recent paper titled "Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and…
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TWiSP 2022 M07 Thu14 Video
This week we discuss social multipliers of an emerging threat to billions of people. But first, I recently spoke with Dr. Jacqui Frost, a postdoctoral scholar at Rice University who is moving soon to a faculty position at Purdue University, about her recent paper titled "Ritualizing Nonreligion:...
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TWiSP 2022 M07 Thu07 Video
This week we discuss the industrialization of migration across the southern border of the United States. But first, I recently spoke with Niccolò Armandola of the University of Zurich about his recent paper titled "Rebel without a Cause: The Effects of Social Origins and Disposable Income on Rule...
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TWiSP 2022 M06 Thu30 Video
On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court released several decisions, many of them major decisions in their domain and beyond. This week I spoke with Professor Mary Rose of the University of Texas-Austin about three of those Supreme Court decisions: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, New York...
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TWiSP 2022 M06 Thu23 Video
This week we discuss the increasing trend of teachers leaving teaching. And, I recently spoke with Professor Joseph Dippong of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, about his recent paper titled "Vocal Accommodation and Perceptions of Speakers' Prestige and Dominance." The paper is to be...
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TWiSP 2022 M06 Thu09 Video
This week we discuss efforts to determine what the next generation will learn. And, I recently spoke with Dr. Kyla Thomas of the Center for Economic and Social Research of the University of Southern California about her recent paper titled "The psychology of distinction: How cultural tastes shape...
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TWiSP 2022 M06 Thu02 Video
This week we discuss the removal of the allegedly "last" public payphone in New York. But first, I recently spoke with Professor Emily Rauscher of Brown University, about her recent paper titled "Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United…
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TWiSP 2022 M05 Thu12 Video
This week we discuss a spate of articles about COVID. And, I recently spoke with Professor Justine Tinkler of the University of Georgia about her recent paper titled "Sexual harassment training and men's motivation to work with women." The paper is to be published in Social Science Research, and…
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TWiSP 2022 M05 Thu05 Video
This week we discuss the Politico leak of a draft Supreme Court decision. But first, I recently spoke with Professor Kyle Siler of the Université de Montréal about his recent paper titled "Inequality Within omnivorous knowledge: Distribution of Jeopardy! geography questions, 1984-2020." The paper...
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TWiSP 2022 M04 Thu28 Video
This week we discuss a leaked document showing that Facebook is unable to comply with emerging laws on privacy. And, I recently spoke with Professor Camila Alvarez of the University of California-Merced about her recent paper titled "Analyzing the Military's Role in Producing Air Toxics…
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TWiSP 2022 M04 Thu21 Video
This week we discuss the repeal of mask mandates for airline travel and other public transit. And, I recently spoke with Reed DeAngelis, doctoral student at the University of North Carolina and the Carolina Population Center, about his recent paper titled "Moving on Up? Neighborhood Status and...
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TWiSP 2022 M04 Thu14 Video
This week we discuss lessons from "Pandemic Kids'" return to school. And, I speak with Hana Shepherd, Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, about her recent paper titled "Administering New Anti-Bullying Law: The Organizational Field and School Variation During Initial...
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TWiSP 2022 M04 Thu07 Video
This week we discuss an amazing new finding from the study of Mars. But first, I recently spoke with Tyler Bruefach, doctoral candidate at Florida State University, about his recent paper titled "Social isolation and achievement of students with learning disabilities." The paper is to be…
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TWiSP 2022 M03 Thu31 Video
This week we discuss new efforts to alter the natural world to serve human desires and interests. And, I recently spoke with Professor Denis Trapido of the University of Washington-Bothell about his recent paper titled "The Female Penalty for Novelty and the Offsetting Effect of Alternate Status...
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TWiSP 2022 M03 Thu24 Video
This week I talked with Professor Kathryn Freeman Anderson of the University of Houston, about the causes and implications of the slow return of passengers to public transportation in the wake of COVID. But first, I recently spoke with Professor Eunmi Mun of the University of Illinois, about her...
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TWiSP 2022 M03 Thu17 Video
This week we discuss parents' hiring of a private security firm to patrol a campus area neighborhood in Philadelphia. And, I speak with Professor Mike Vuolo of Ohio State University about his recent paper titled "Surveillance, Self-Governance, and Mortality: The Impact of Prescription Drug...
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TWiSP 2022 M03 Thu10 Video
This week we discuss some insights from World War II and the nuclear stand-off in its aftermath. And, I speak with Professor Daniel Karell of Yale University about his recent paper titled "Small town propaganda: The content and emotions of politicized digital local news in the United States." The...
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TWiSP 2022 M03 Thu03 Video
This week we consider the Argus II retinal implant system as an example of orphan medical technology, and contrast its treatment with the responses to two other instances of orphan technology. And, I recently spoke with Professor Colleen Heflin of Syracuse University about her recent paper titled...
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TWiSP 2022 M02 Thu24 Video
This week we discuss the start of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and the analogies some deploy to understand it. And, I speak with Professor Sylwia J. Piatkowska of Florida State University about her recent paper titled "Brexit, Terrorist Attacks, and Hate Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis." The…
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TWiSP 2022 M02 Thu17 Video
This week we discuss the move of pro-genocide frameworks into the political mainstream in France. But first, I recently spoke with Chinyere Agbai, doctoral candidate in sociology at Brown University, about her recent paper titled "Shifting neighborhoods, shifting health: A longitudinal analysis…
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TWiSP 2022 M01 Thu06 Video
This week we take a look back at 2021, with Meredith Phillips, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, UCLA; and Mary Rose, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin.
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TWiSP 2021 M07 Thu22 Video
This week we discuss the efforts of some anti-vaccination Facebook groups to avoid detection and removal. And, I recently spoke with Professor Megan Doherty Bea of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Professor Emily Taylor Poppe of the University of California-Irvine about their recent paper...
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TWiSP 2021 M07 Thu15 Video
This week we discuss Britney Spears' conservatorship. And, I recently spoke with Professor Amy August of San José State University about her recent paper titled "Indirect Socialization in Preschool: How Teachers Harness Children's Ability to Shape Peer Behavior." The paper is to be published in...
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TWiSP 2021 M07 Thu01 Video
This week we discuss the drought in California's agricultural central valley. And, I recently spoke with Professor Kerry Ard of Ohio State University about her recent paper titled "Examining the Relationship Between Racialized Poverty Segregation and Hazardous Industrial Facilities in the U.S.…
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TWiSP 2021 M06 Thu24 Video
This week we juxtapose two recent federal legislative actions: one, the new federal Juneteenth holiday; the other, the heretofore failed effort to pass the "For the People" act. And, I recently spoke with Professor Benjamin Cornwell of Cornell University about his recent paper titled "Network...
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TWiSP 2021 M06 Thu10 Video
This week we discuss journalists' efforts to unionize, multiple logics of practitioner organizing, and the contrasting responses of The New York Times and The Atlantic to the unionization efforts. And, I recently spoke with Dr. Daniel Ramirez, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Spanish National...
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TWiSP 2021 M06 Thu03 Video
This week I spoke with Dr. Christine Percheski, Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, about causes and implications of widespread declining birthrates. But first, I recently spoke with Dr. Judith Kas, postdoctoral researcher at the WZB Social Science Center in Berlin, about...
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TWiSP 2021 M05 Thu27 Video
This week we discuss news reports of pets adopted during the pandemic being returned to shelters. And, I recently spoke with Professor David McElhattan of Purdue University about his recent paper titled "Punitive ambiguity: State-level criminal record data quality in the era of widespread...
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TWiSP 2021 M05 Thu20 Video
This week we discuss an EU response to the German Green Party's proposal to tax kerosene, the basis of jet fuel. And, I recently spoke with Ms. Emily Handsman of Northwestern University about her recent paper titled "From Virtue to Grit: Changes in Character Education Narratives in the U.S. from...
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TWiSP 2021 M05 Thu13 Video
This week we discuss survey evidence on Americans' response to the difficulties of 2020. And, I recently spoke with Dr. Yikang Bai of Washington State University, and Professor Jennifer Givens of Utah State University, about their recent paper titled "Ecologically Unequal Exchange of Plastic…
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TWiSP 2021 M05 Thu06 Video
This week we discuss leftists' reluctance to return to normal as scientific knowledge about COVID, and the proportion of people vaccinated against COVID, both rise. And, I recently spoke with Professor Anne Groggel of North Central College about her recent paper titled "The Role of Place and...
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TWiSP 2021 M04 Thu29 Video
This week we discuss the recently released Census data on reapportionment. And, I recently spoke with Professor Sarah Lageson of Rutgers University about her recent paper titled "Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferaton of State Criminal Records on the Internet." The paper is to…
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TWiSP 2021 M04 Thu22 Video
This week we briefly juxtapose the original Minneapolis Police Department report on the death of George Floyd with the facts of the case we now know. Using a sociological lens, we consider how such a technically accurate, but fundamentally inaccurate report could be released–and what it says…
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TWiSP 2021 M04 Thu15 Video
With reports that an Instagram for children is under development, we draw sociological insights on the move and the backlash. And, I speak with Professor Jacob Felson of William Patterson University about his recent paper titled "Online or in Person? Examining College Decisions to Reopen during…
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TWiSP 2021 M04 Thu08 Video
This week we discuss new estimates of the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine for young teenagers. And, I recently spoke with Professor Martha Copp of East Tennessee State University about her new paper titled "We've Come a Long Way, Guys! Rhetorics of Resistance to the Feminist Critique of…
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TWiSP 2021 M03 Thu04 Video
This week we discuss the concept of cancel culture, in the context of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' recommendation to avoid the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. And, I recently spoke with Professor Pilar Gonalons-Pons of the University of Pennsylvania about her recent paper titled...
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TWiSP 2021 M02 Thu25 Video
This week we discuss what appears to be a sad development for computing–Fry's electronics has gone out of business. And, I recently spoke with Professor Sarah Font of Pennsylvania State University about her recent paper titled "The Scope, Nature, and Causes of Child Abuse and Neglect." The paper...
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TWiSP 2021 M02 Thu18 Video
This week we consider the justice implicated in a warning the National Basketball Association gave LeBron James for an on-court violation that the referee did not call. And, I recently spoke with Professor Mahesh Somashekhar of the University of Illinois at Chicago about his recent paper titled...
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TWiSP 2021 M02 Thu11 Video
This week we discuss a hacker's recent breach of a Florida town's water supply. But first, as the Senate trial of impeached former President Donald Trump proceeds, some are suggesting that the nation has not been this polarized since the Civil War. Well, what does sociological research on…
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TWiSP 2021 M02 Thu04 Video
This week we discuss the grassroots effort to add bike lanes to LEGO modules, and we mark the passing of a giant in the field of sociology. And, I recently spoke with Professor Michael Light of the University of Wisconsin-Madison about his recent paper titled "Undocumented immigration and...
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TWiSP 2021 M01 Thu28 Video
This week we discuss how new means of constructing algorithms may reduce racial disparities in health care. And, I speak with Professor Nina Bandelj of the University of California-Irvine about her recent paper titled "Amplified Decoupling in the Global Economy: The Case of Bilateral Investment...
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TWiSP 2021 M01 Thu21 Video
This week we discuss the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States. And, I speak with Professor Naomi Sugie of the University of California-Irvine about her recent paper titled "Marginalization or Incorporation? Welfare Receipt and Political Participation Among Young Adults." The paper…
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TWiSP 2021 M01 Thu14 Video
This week we take a look back at 2020, with Trevor Hoppe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North-Carolina-Greensboro; Marlese Durr, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Wright State University; David M. Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas; and Hannah Holleman,...
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TWiSP 2020 M12 Thu17 Video
This week we consider how people select their health insurance when faced with lots of options. And, I recently spoke with Professor Lance Hannon of Villanova University about his recent paper titled "Do White People See Variation in Black Skin Tones? Reexamining a Purported Outgroup Homogeneity...
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TWiSP 2020 M12 Thu10 Video
This week we reflect upon some insights after considering letters children have sent to Santa about the year 2020. And, I recently spoke with Professor Lisa Keister of Duke University about her recent paper titled "Net Worth Poverty in Child Households by Race and Ethnicity, 1989-2019." The paper...
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(Video)Economists talk money. Politicians talk government. On This Week in Sociological Perspective we talk money, politics, and everything else that makes the world go ‘round, offering insight on society, public affairs, and news of the week. Guest authors join your host, UC-Berkeley Professor Samuel Roundfield Lucas, to transcend the headlines through fascinating research in sociology.
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