Sage Sociology

The 22 May 2013 program features Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations and the journal's review editor Jon Burnett, Assistant Editor of IRR News and the author of a major article on new geographies of racial violence in the current April–June 2013; 54(4) issue.

Agency and Structure in Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust. Shaun Best’s podcast outlines the critique that he developed in his article, ‘Agency and Structure in Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust’, Irish Journal of Sociology May 2014 volume 22 issue 1. The focus of the podcast is on Bauman’s central concepts of adiaphoria and the agentic state. The argument developed is that by using these concepts Bauman undervalues the role of human agency in the unfolding of the Holocaust.

Author Abigail Sewell discusses her article published in the October 2016 issue of Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, "The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities."

Dr. Cristobal Young, Assistant Professor at Stanford University, interviews Dr.Olav Sorenson, Professor of Sociology at the Yale School of Management, about his recently published article,"Geography, Joint Choices, and the Reproduction of Gender Inequality," co-authored by Michael Dahl. This article can be found in the October 2016 issue of the American Sociological Review.

Authors Mary Campbell and Molly Martin discuss their article published in the April 2016 issue of Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, "Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born: Variation across Communities." 

Author Meghan Burke discusses how bringing attention back to the material roots that produce ideology and inequality has the potential to further our understanding of contemporary racism and to derive more specific tools to challenge it.

Author Michael Vuolo discusses his article, "A Multilevel Test of Constrained Choices Theory: The Case of Tobacco Clean Air Restrictions," co-authored by Joy Kadowaki and Brian Kelly. The article is published in the September 2016 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Author Alexandra Killewald discusses her article, "Money, Work, and Marital Stability: Assessing Change in the Gendered Determinants of Divorce," published in the August 2016 issue of the American Sociological Review. 

A podcast from Armi Mustosmaki on her co-authored article: Abating inequalities? Job quality at the intersection of class and gender in Finland 1977–2013