Samuel Cohn is a Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He is the Founder and First President of the American Sociological Association Section on Development. He received the American Sociological Association’s Jessie Barnard Award for the best book on gender. (Process of Occupational Sex-Typing. Philadelphia, Temple, 1985.) He received another prize from the American Sociological Association for his book on Brazilian Development. (Employment and Development Under Globalization. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).  He specializes in the historical and economic determinants of societal and personal prosperity. Early work involved the determinants of women’s economic well being in Victorian Britain, the determinants of workers' well being in nineteenth century France and the determinants of black access to jobs in contemporary American cities.  

LINKS: Book: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501755903/all-societies-die/Personal Website: https://www.samuelcohn.net/ 

PODCAST MOMENTS: 1:55 Personal Background and Research on Societies/Civilizations 18:35 Impact of Media on Society | COVID-19 23:22 Etiology of Current Societal Problems 34:26 Is the U.S. a Plutocracy? 41:26 3 Factors That Lead to the End of Society: 1. Standards of Living Collapse 51:28 #1 Threat to Collapse of Standard of Living  54:36 How do we cultivate trust in American society?  1:05:03 3 Factors That Lead to the End of Society: 2. Disappearance of Technology 1:21:16 3 Factors That Lead to the End of Society: 3. Crime, Warfare and Violence Increase 1:31:08 How do we keep HOPE alive?  

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