Horowitz

This week, The Annex sits down with Mark Horowitz of Seton Hall.  Mark authored “Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge: Moral Foundations Theory and Disciplinary Controversies” in The American Sociologist.  We also discuss student input in hiring decisions, e-Sports on campus, and economic disparities among adjuncts.

Horowitz

Joe and Leslie interview Mark Horowitz of Seton Hall.  Mark authored “Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge: Moral Foundations Theory and Disciplinary Controversies” in The American Sociologist.

Horowitz

Joe, Leslie, and Mark Horowitz (Seton Hall) discuss a TIAA survey that finds economic disparities among adjuncts, in which many adjuncts live in near-poverty while others appear to come from well-heeled households.

Horowitz

Joe, Leslie, and Mark Horowitz (Seton Hall) talk about what has been on their minds on the afternoon of Election Day 2018, before the results came in.

Horowitz

Joe, Leslie, and Mark Horowitz (Seton Hall) discuss e-Sports’ emergence as a college sport.

Horowitz

Joe, Leslie, and Mark Horowitz (Seton Hall) discuss student protests at Seton Hall over representation, and one of the students’ demands for formal influence over faculty hiring.  The case is used as a platform for discussing the role of students in making faculty hiring decisions.

Joe talks to Philip Cohen (University of Maryland, College Park) about commercial publishers’ efforts at vertical integration, and concerns about maximizing the openness of science.

Joe talks to Philip Cohen (University of Maryland, College Park) about commercial publishers’ efforts at vertical integration, and concerns about maximizing the openness of science.

Discussants

Philip Cohen is a Sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the director of an open archive site, SocArXiv. He wrote The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change (2014, Norton) and Enduring Bonds (2018, University of California Press). Twitter: @familyunequal

Joseph Nathan Cohen co-hosts The Annex and directs the Sociocast Project. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, Queens College. He wrote Financial Crisis in American Households: The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class (2017, Praeger) and co-authored Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective (2010, Polity). Twitter: @jncohen

Santos

Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development) discuss punishments levied against New School Professor Andrew Arato, a social theorist whose colleagues charged with bullying.  We discuss the balance of bullying and over-sensitivity in these types of cases, and the use of collegiality in making personnel decisions.

 

 

Santos

An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of Puerto Rico fatalities resulting from Hurricane Maria.  Santos’ and similar analyses led to important questions about the adequacy of government responses to the hurricane.  We also discuss the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, whether publishers are a positive force in education and research, proposals to create an African-American team at the World Baseball Classic, and the case of Andrew Arato, a New School professor who was punished for bullying.