Sage Sociology

Authors C.J. Pascoe and Jocelyn Hollander discuss their article published in the February 2016 issue of Gender & Society, "Good Guys Don't Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape."

Author Patricia Yancey Martin discusses her article published in the February 2016 issue of Gender & Society,"The Rape Prone Culture of Academic Contexts
Fraternities and Athletics." 

Author Nancy Whittier discusses her article published in the February 2016 issue of Gender & Society, "Where Are the Children? Theorizing the Missing Piece in Gendered Sexual Violence." 

Author Nicola Henry discusses her article published in the February 2016 issue of Gender & Society, "Theorizing Wartime Rape: Deconstructing Gender, Sexuality, and Violence." 

Dr Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen discusses his new research on process-thinking in Arendt.

Editorial assistant Elizabeth Whetstone interviews author Siwei Cheng about her article, "The Accumulation of (Dis)advantage:The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Long-Term Wage Effect of Marriage." Cheng discusses her research strategies, challenges in the process, and future studies. 

In this podcast episode, Professor Rodney Coates and David Fasenfest discuss how sociology can draw on both poetry and creative pursuits more broadly to engage people. Then Professor Coates discusses the role of religion in his development as a sociologist before turning to a discussion on Black Lives Matter and the ongoing need to eradicate racism in society. This is the first in a multi-part conversation with Professor Coates.

In this podcast episode, Martha Gimenez discusses the state of Marxist feminism in sociological scholarship. Drawing on theories of intersectionality she elaborates on the ongoing need for social movements to move beyond identity politics to create solidarity networks that transcend class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality.

In this podcast episode, Sam Binkley of Emerson College discusses his book Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life (2015, SUNY Press). Here he elaborates on the ways individuals are encouraged to become entrepreneurs of themselves in order to achieve happiness within an ideology that emphasizes individual agency while concealing the significance of social structure in shaping people’s lives.

This is the second part of my conversation with Tony Paris, lead attorney at the Sugarlaw Center for Economic and Social Justice, in Detroit Michigan. We discuss the legacy of civil right and labor lawyer Maurice Sugar as an activist and song-writer and play his well-known labor anthem, “Sit-Down.” Afterward  we discuss Tony Paris’ new project, putting music to lost lyrics by Maurice Sugar, and play the Sugar/Paris song “We are the Ones.”