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Jennifer Hochschild on Race in America
Social Science Bites
December 1, 2016

Jennifer Hochschild on Race in America

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Anna Machin on Romance
Social Science Bites
November 1, 2016

Anna Machin on Romance

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Karenza Moore on Dance Culture
Social Science Bites
October 3, 2016

Karenza Moore on Dance Culture

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Michael Billig on the Royal Family and Nationalism
Social Science Bites
September 1, 2016

Michael Billig on the Royal Family and Nationalism

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Mirca Madianou on Technology and Everyday Life

Mirca Madianou on Technology and Everyday Life

It’s often remarked that technology has made the world a smaller place. While this has been especially true for those with the wherewithal to buy the latest gadget and to travel at will, but it’s also true for economic migrants. Those technological ties are one of the key research interests of Mirca Madianou who discusses her work on transnational families and social media in the latest Social Science Bites podcast.

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Iris Bohnet on Discrimination and Design

Iris Bohnet on Discrimination and Design

“As a behavioral scientist,” Iris Bohnet tells David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast looking at implicit bias, “I strongly believe that we now do have the insights and the tools to help us promote behavior change, not by changing mindsets but changing organizations.”

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Michael Burawoy on Sociology and the Workplace

Michael Burawoy on Sociology and the Workplace

Michael Burawoy is a practitioner of what we might call ‘extreme ethnography.’ In this Social Science Bites podcast, Burawoy tells interviewer Dave Edmonds about his various experiences on factory floors, and some of the specific lessons he learned and the broader points — often unexpected — that emerged from the synthesis of his experiences.

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Stephen Reicher on Crowd Psychology

Stephen Reicher on Crowd Psychology

“In a sense, you could summarize the literature: ‘Groups are bad for you, groups take moral individuals and they turn them into immoral idiots.’ I have been trying to contest that notion,” social psychologist Stephen Reicher says in this Social Science Bites podcast, “[and] also to explain how that notion comes about.”

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Janet Carsten on the Kinship of Anthropology

Janet Carsten on the Kinship of Anthropology

One of the leading exponents of what might be called the second coming of kinship studies, Janet Carsten, a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, has (literally) brought new blood into the field, exploring kinship’s nexus with politics, work and gender.

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