Today, we meet Phillipa Chong from McMaster University. We discuss her upcoming book, Inside the Critics' Circle (Princeton University Press) about literary criticism.
Special guest host Clayton Childress (University of Toronto).
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The Bulwark, an offshoot of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, evoked criticism with coverage of the Conservative Political Action Conference. We discuss tolerance for internal dissent within political parties, and how media's business dynamics shape political debate. ...
We interview Margaret Hagerman on her book, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press), a book about how white youth learn to reproduce white privilege. Margaret Hagerman is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. She wrote White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press). Twitter: @MaggieHagerman Jean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. Jean wrote Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France( (University of California Press). Twitter: @jean23bean Photo Credit By KNewman1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link ...
This week, The Annex discusses a cleavage in German sociology that resulted in the formation of the Academy of Sociology, an organization that splintered from the German Sociological Association in a spat that involved questions of scientific rigor in sociology. Here's the back story: Background This summer, Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland tweeted: To be a social science discipline sociology needs to adopt standards for transparency and reproducibility. All science is moving this way. Some parts of the discipline can't or won't. This may solidify qual/quant as science/notscience & I'm not sure the discipline can survive it— Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) August 13, 2019 Stephen Vaisey of Duke University commented: I don't think this maps onto qual/quant neatly, but I think sociology could survive a split. Fields have done it (e.g., anthro). And others have few institutionalized subfields (e.g., PS). No reason to force us all to live in the same "house" *if* we are pursuing different goals. https://t.co/dSquII7WGH— Stephen Vaisey (@vaiseys) August 14, 2019 This tweet generated multiple, very interesting reactions, including this one from Fabian Ochsenfeld. In Germany, we now have two sociological associations, @DGSoziologie and @akadsoz. Orientation to theory and replication standards were explicitly mentioned as reasons to split (qual/quant not, but there's a correlation). @socannex— Fabian Ochsenfeld (@FOchsenfeld) August 21, 2019 ...
