Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Elizabeth Popp-Berman (SUNY Albany) discuss the disorientation of news from the new Trump administration, and whether there is any merit to a widespread anxiety that something is going wrong in society.

Photo Credit. Craighead, Shealah, photographer. Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump. , 2017. October 6. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017656484/.

This week, we talk to Elizabeth Popp Berman from SUNY Albany (42:35).   Elizabeth is the author of the much-acclaimed Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine (Princeton University Press), and the forthcoming Thinking Like an Economist: How Economics Became the Language of Public Policy (Princeton).  Also, we discuss: What the heck is going on in US politics? (00:50)  Should we abolish the roundtable session? (14:40)  and the idea behind Richard Reeves’ Dream Hoarders (19:45)

Elizabeth received her PhD in Sociology from Berkeley in 2007. In 2013-14 She was the Richard B. Fisher Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton

Currently, Elizabeth is an associate professor of sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, working at the intersection of economic sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and science & technology studies. Most of her work focuses on recent U.S. history (1960s to 1980s) and emphasizes the role of public policy.

This week, we speak with Robert Francis from Johns Hopkins.  Robert is a doctoral student whose fieldwork engages white, rural men who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.  His most recent findings are forthcoming in Socius.  Also, we discuss Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle, charges of data falsification in France, and the case of Brooke Harrington and academic freedom in Denmark.

The case of Nicolas Guéguen, a professor recently charged with data fabrication, leads to a broader discussion of data fabrication and research misconduct.

Discussants

Robert Francis is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University. Robert wrote “Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius. Twitter: @MrBobFrancis

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

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine(2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman

For many people, Meghan Markle will be their first exposure to a real world black princess.

Discussants

Robert Francis is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins. He recently published “Him, Not Her: Why Working-Class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius. Twitter: @MrBobFrancis

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

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine(2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman

The case of Nicolas Guéguen, a professor recently charged with data fabrication, leads to a broader discussion of data fabrication and research misconduct.

Discussants

Robert Francis is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University. Robert wrote “Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius. Twitter: @MrBobFrancis

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

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine(2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman

Brooke Harrington, a business and politics professor at Denmark’s Copenhagen Business School who studies international tax havens, was charged with a crime by Dutch authorities for violating her work permit by delivering public lectures.

Discussants

Robert Francis is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins. He recently published “Him, Not Her: Why Working-Class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius. Twitter: @MrBobFrancis

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

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine(2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman

For many people, Meghan Markle will be their first exposure to a real world black princess.

Discussants

Robert Francis is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins. He recently published “Him, Not Her: Why Working-Class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius. Twitter: @MrBobFrancis

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

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine(2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman

Brooke Harrington, a business and politics professor at Denmark’s Copenhagen Business School who studies international tax havens, was charged with a crime by Dutch authorities for violating her work permit by delivering public lectures.

Discussants

Robert Francis is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins. He recently published “Him, Not Her: Why Working-Class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius. Twitter: @MrBobFrancis

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

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine(2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman

This week, we talk to Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland, College Park.  Philip currently directs the ASA Section on the Family, Contexts, and SocArXiv.  He is also set to publish a new book, Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else that Makes Families Great and Terrible, from the University of California Press.