Uncommon Sense

Uncommon Sense

Our world, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review Foundation.


The podcast that casts a sociological lens on our lives, our world, our crises. Each month, we sit down with an expert guest and grab hold of a commonplace notion – Anxiety! Privilege! Burnout! Fat! – and flip it around to see it differently, more critically, more sociologically. A jargon-free space, led by hosts Rosie Hancock and Alexis Hieu Truong, to question tropes and assumptions – and to imagine better ways of living together. Because sociology is for everybody – and you certainly don’t have to be a sociologist to think like one!

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Security, with Daria Krivonos

Security, with Daria Krivonos

Too often, talk about security seems to belong to politicians and psychologists; to discussions about terrorism and defence, individual anxiety and insecurity. But how do sociologists think about it? ...

22 Heinä 202242min

Intimacy, with Katherine Twamley

Intimacy, with Katherine Twamley

Think of intimacy and, pretty soon, you’ll probably think about sex. But, as sociologist Katherine Twamley explains, intimacy means much more than that: it’s woven through so many of our relationships...

24 Kesä 202241min

School, with Remi Joseph-Salisbury

School, with Remi Joseph-Salisbury

School should be about play, fulfilment and learning. But it is also a place of surveillance, discipline and discrimination. Activist scholar Remi Joseph-Salisbury has researched policing, racism and ...

20 Touko 202243min

Home, with Michaela Benson

Home, with Michaela Benson

Home means something to everyone. More than just bricks and mortar, it’s about security and belonging, citizenship and exclusion. Michaela Benson has researched it all: from the UK’s self-build commun...

22 Huhti 202240min

Care, with Bev Skeggs

Care, with Bev Skeggs

What does care really mean? For feminist sociologist Bev Skeggs, it should be at the heart of how we organise our society – from tax to health, to climate action. She talks to Alexis and Rosie about t...

22 Huhti 202243min

Introducing Uncommon Sense

Introducing Uncommon Sense

This is Uncommon Sense, the podcast that sees our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review, it’s a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about ...

24 Maalis 20221min

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