What the Hellsevier?
This week we talk about the sociology and economics of academic journal publishing, the Elsevier boycott, and whether the journal system as...
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Sociology Improv
A podcast with sociologically-informed discussion of the news of the day.
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20 of 30 episodesHuffduff This
This episode we start with a discussion of violent protests prompted by a question from a listener (Which is great! Send more!). We then tal...
Erotica Friday
We have three segments this episode: We talk with Shannon Golden about Kony 2012. Shannon provides some insight into the situation in Uganda...
He Likes Organic Vegetables
Autonomous Cars, more on stadiums and Mayor KJ, and Arturo’s participation in the NorCal AIDS Challenge: Donate here! Other links: Eli...
Forced by the Elements
Topics include the sociology of weather in an M Word state, the Super Bowl, stadiums, and guilt over the state of professional sports. Chris...
Otherwise Occupied
After a lengthy break, we’re back! Racism in hockey, Work It, and The Trap are among our topics this episode. Enjoy! Download Improv #...
The Fascist Hippie Drum Circle
This week we talk about Occupy Wall Street and other Occupations. Links mentioned in the show: Occupy Wall Street Occupy Minnesota Planet Mo...
Undrunk
This episode, we fail to talk about Robocop, then we have a discussion about Getting Wasted, and then chat a bit about current political eve...
The Circle of Life
After a quick ASA recap from Jesse and Arturo, we talk about the challenges of writing—and academic writing in particular—and wh...
We’ve Got Something You Should Read
Long time, no see. Hope you’re having a nice summer. We’re back with two topics. First, we spend most of the hour talking about...
We are not happy. We are not cool.
This episode we talk about a recent paper about happiness (via Graphic Sociology) and whether or not happiness studies actually tell us anyt...
The New Consensi
Two topics this week: First, Arturo jumps off from a recent New Books in Sociology episode to ask whether or not sociology is too set in mak...
Call Us Princess
Two segments this week: First, Chris gives a shout out to Sociological Images for their post on Push Up Bikini Tops at Abercrombie Kids, whi...
Dr. Jesus
Because Arturo is obsessed with Glenn Beck, conversation begins there, but quickly moves to government shutdowns, the way economists approac...
The Sociology Improv: Part II
Podcasting and procrastination, nuclear power and scientific knowledge, the problem with high schools, and the situation in Libya. Links: Ne...
The Weak Board of Weakness
We start off talking about Charlie Sheen and celebrity (yeah, sorry), and then transition into a discussion about the iPad and music, and te...
Tyrants
Our first episode recorded in 2011 finds Jesse in Iraq once again and our minds on protest and revolution. Enjoy! Miscellaneous links discus...
Science
Remember that big stink over anthropology and science in December? We invited anthropologist Eric Plemons back on the show to talk about sci...
We Are Not DJs
This episode, we talk about Black Friday mania, Girl Talk, John Stewart, and Wikileaks. Follow along at home: Netflix queues and procrastina...
Party in the Back
On October 27, Jeremy Freese taped a laptop to his face and Skyped into the Soc Improv for a discussion of the NRC rankings. After Jeremy le...
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