Office Hours The Society Pages

In this episode, guest host Amber Joy chats with Courtney Bell, a high school teacher in North Minneapolis who was a candidate for the 2018 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award. In a recent article by the Star Tribune, Bell talks about her work teaching sociology to high school students in North Minneapolis. Bell discusses how she encourages her high school students to see themselves as budding sociologists, keeps them engaged in sociological research methods, and uses lessons from sociology to build what she calls emancipatory education.

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[1] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OHTS1_Bell.mp3

In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers [1] about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities [2]. The book interrogates “compulsory monogamy”, or our cultural disposition towards being in a relationship with only one other person at a time. Schippers argues that this compulsory disposition towards monogamy limits the ways that we can view relationships, and reproduces various kinds of inequalities.


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[1] http://www2.tulane.edu/liberal-arts/sociology/schipper-profile.cfm
[2] https://nyupress.org/books/9781479886227/
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH131_Schippers.mp3

In this episode, guest hosts Amber Powell and Allison Nobles talk to Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College Lisa Wade [1] about her book American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus [2]. The conversation focuses on interrogating what ‘hookup culture’ really is— and how college students make sense of themselves and their positions within (and excluded from) the culture. Using students’ self-reported experiences with sex on campus, Wade is able to narrate the complexities involved in navigating this ‘hookup culture’.

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[1] https://lisa-wade.com/
[2] http://books.wwnorton.com/books/American-Hookup/
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH134_Wade.mp3

In this episode, guest host Caty Taborda-Whitt sits down with Trevor Hoppe [1] to discuss his new book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness [2], which looks at the public health response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The conversation focuses on how this infectious disease became a target for criminalization [3] through policies and laws that punished the sick.

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[1] http://www.trevorhoppe.com/
[2] https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291607
[3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953613005947?via%3Dihub
[4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH136_Hoppe.mp3

In this episode, guest host Wahutu talks to Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Michael Schudson [1] about his new book The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know [2]. The conversation focuses on the history of news as well as how the public makes sense of news today. Of particular interest is the legacy of the Watergate scandal on journalism and the east coast’s position historically as a center for news production.

 
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[1] https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/michael-schudson
[2] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-news-media-9780190206192?cc=us&lang=en&
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH135_Schudson.mp3

Stanford sociologist Marianne Cooper [1] is a leading expert in the field of gender and family dynamics. Her latest book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times [2], details her efforts to understand how families representing an array of social classes perceive and manage contemporary economic anxieties. She and guest-host Sarah Catherine Billups discuss the many ways that these problems often fall to wives and mothers, even amongst those who have transcended gender boundaries in professional life.

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[1] http://gender.stanford.edu/people/marianne-cooper
[2] http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520277670
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH133_Cooper.mp3