In this episode, we chat with Akron NAACP chapter President Judi Hill about her education and activist work in and around Akron, OH as well as our shared humanity.

Wynn, Winona, and Michelle talk with Rina James, who since this episode completed their PhD in Sociology at University of Arizona! Rina explores gender, digital culture, and far-right politics, as their dissertation maps user trajectories across male supremacist communities on Reddit, identifying individual, community, and platform-level factors that drive differential participation and radicalization in far-right extremist movements.

Welcome to the “The Social Eye Pod” where sociologists Winona, Wynn, Michelle, and Iris talk with guests about the complex relationships between the personal and the political. Using sociology to explore big ideas. Exploring the taken for granted in everyday life. Breaking down the complexity of institutionalized issues and inequality through lived experiences.

In this episode, we discuss the sociology of community, inspired by Miranda Joseph's 2002 book Against The Romance Of Community, which you can find here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816637966/against-the-romance-of-community/

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Welcome to the “The Social Eye Pod” where sociologists Winona, Wynn, Michelle, and Iris talk with guests about the complex relationships between the personal and the political.

But first! In this episode you will get to know us! We share what drew us to sociology, our interests, our teaching philosophies, and what motivated us to make this podcast. Also, lore!

Book recommendations: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire, Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes by L. S. Vygotsky

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