Matthew Desmond & Mustafa Emirbayer's What is Racial Domination?
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore sociological understandings of race by examining Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer's article on 'What is Racial Domination? ' in the Du Bois Rev...
10 Okt 202231min
Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have an in-depth chat about Shoshana's Zuboff's theory of 'surveillance capitalism', which postulates the existence of a new variant of capitalism that sign...
3 Okt 202226min
George Ritzer & Nathan Jurgenson's the Rise of Prosumer Capitalism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss consider George Ritzer and Nathan Jurgenson's theory of prosumer capitalism as articulated in their article in the Journal of Consumer Culture. Ritzer and J...
2 Okt 202226min
Linsey McGoey's Philanthrocapitalism and its Critics
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine the concept of 'philanthrocapitalism' by considering a sociological critique of it by Linsey McGoey in Poetics. Philanthrocapitalism is a portmantea...
2 Sep 202222min
The Ambiguous Legacy of Kuhn in Sociology
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss the ambiguous legacy of Thomas Kuhn's work in the field of sociology by unpacking an article by Zaheer Baber in the Bulletin of Science, Technology ...
16 Aug 202217min
Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss Thomas Kuhn's noted work, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn puts forward a provocative theory of how scientific knowledge develops. Whi...
15 Aug 202225min
Patricia Hill Collins's Black Feminist Thought (ft. Frances Wyld)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have an introductory conversation about Patricia Hill Collins's work, Black Feminist Thought, which makes a notable contribution to standpoint theory. Throu...
4 Aug 202232min
Dorothy Smith's Feminist Standpoint Theory
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine Dorothy Smith's account of feminist standpoint theory. Smith's work problematizes the view that sociological forms of knowledge are uncritically obj...
3 Aug 202219min
