Department of Sociology Podcasts
By Oxford University
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Description
Podcasts from The Department of Sociology. Sociology in Oxford is concerned with real-world issues with policy relevance, such as social inequality, organised crime, the social basis of political conflict and mobilization, and changes in family relationships and gender roles. Our research is empirical, analytical, and comparative in nature, reaching far beyond British society, to encompass systematic cross-national comparison as well as the detailed study of Asian, European, Latin American and North American societies.
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Cees van der Eijk on “Contextualising Research Methods | Cees van der Eijk gives a talk for the Sociology seminar series. | 6/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences | Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focussing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, and (b) using "big data" examples to generate and maintain students' interest. | 6/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Fox on R software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students | John Fox discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially focusing on the choice of software with a demonstration of R and R Commander. | 7/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Robert Johns on SPSS and Stata software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Robert Johns (Essex University) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, focusing on comparing the use of SPSS and Stata. | 7/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wendy Olsen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Wendy Olsen discusses her experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially those in Sociology and Social Policy. | 1/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Robert Andersen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Robert Andersen discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially those in Sociology and Social Policy. | 1/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sean Carey on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Sean Carey (University of Mannheim, Germany) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. | 11/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Andrew Gelman on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Andrew Gelman (Columbia University, NYC) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. | 11/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off? | Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off? | 10/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Andy Field on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Andy Field (University of Sussex) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students. | 9/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anti-politics in action: Do European protesters hate formal politics more than the general public? | Dr Clare Saunders (University of Exeter) presents her multi-staged surveys on European protests. | 8/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Endtimes of Human Rights | Are we coming to an end of the human rights as a social science issue? Talk by Dr Stephen Hopgood (SOAS). | 8/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Manfred te Grotenhuis on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Manfred te Grotenhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students. | 8/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Updating what we know about intergenerational time and money transfers in the U.S. | Prof. Bianchi (UCLA) presents a new survey component of American Time Use Data (ATUS) that investigates intergenerational time and money transfers. | 5/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Identifying age, period and cohort effects: Are the new methods really better? | Prof. Voas (University of Essex) presents new quantitative methods to analyse secularisation - religiosity. | 5/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Is there 'White Flight?' in England? Why Whites in Homogeneous English Wards Are More Opposed to Immigration | Prof. Kaufmann (Birbeck College) investigates whether Whites in homogeneous English neighbourhoods oppose immigration more. | 5/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Solving the Mona Lisa Smile, and Other Developments in Micro-empirical sociology | Seminar on what micro-sociology could tell us about predicting violence. | 4/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (Astor Visiting Lecture) | Are humans inherently selfish? Is there really an essential human nature? How do we contend about the selfish gene in this day and age? What do we make of altruism against the selfish gene? With Professor Sam Bowles (Arthur Speigel Research Professor). | 3/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Changing Relationships: The Role of Cohabitation | A study on how cohabitation affects marriage and re-marriage patterns in the UK. With Dr. Tiziano Nazio (University of Turin). | 3/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Issue Attention and Demobilization: How Social Movements shape the Policy Agenda when Issues are in Decline | Looking at how social movements shape the policy making agenda in the US when the issues the social movements are arguing for are in decline in the main policy making agenda. | 3/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Understanding Conspiracy Theories Sociologically: Anti-Semitic Rhetoric about Dönmes (Converts) in Turkey | Research investigating the convert-Jews in Turkey with materials investigating historical accounts, popular conspiracy theory books and interviews with the authors of such books. | 3/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Laura Stoker on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Laura Stoker discusses her experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. | 2/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Income inequality and personality- Are more equal US States more agreeable? | How does inequality influence personal agreeableness? | 1/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Does Shame Always Go Hand in Hand With Poverty? Answers From an International Comparative Study | Is shame an automatic consequence of poverty? Can one be poor without being ashamed of it? A lecture from Professor Robert Walker, University of Oxford. | 1/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Crimes in (social) Contexts: The Influence of Police Legitimacy on Offending Behaviour | How can we understand the influence of police on criminal behaviour? | 1/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alan Agresti on teaching quantitative methods to social science students | Alan Agresti discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. | 12/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Kellstedt on teaching quantitative methods to political science students | Paul Kellstedt discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students and other social scientists. | 12/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Negative Intergroup Contact: Causes and Consequences | Dr. Eva Jaspers (University of Utrecht) on negative intergroup contact and how it can help us understand persistent ethnic bias. | 10/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries | Professor Anthony King (University of Exeter) looks at the modern infantry tactics and cohesion, with a perspective on conscripted vs. professional armies. | 10/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bill Jacoby on teaching quantitative methods to political science students | Bill Jacoby discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students and other social scientists. | 10/18/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism | Sociological analysis of the End of East German Socialism. | 7/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism | Prof. Skocpol presents a detailed analysis of the rising Tea Party in the US and how Tea Party followers are different from Democrats. | 7/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Focal points, endogenous processes and exogenous shocks in the autism epidemic | Ka Yuet Liu (Columbia University) presents an insightful inquiry into autism epidemic. | 3/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Childbearing across partnerships | How does childbearing work across various types of partnerships, including but not limited to cohabitation, marriage, re-married couples. | 3/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Social mobility, marriage and societal openness in Great Britain, 1949-2006 | How can we understand the social mobility patterns through marriage in Great Britain? A historical perspective. | 3/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Structural and exchange mobility in Britain and the USA: 1870-1970 | Historical approach on social mobility in Britain and the US. | 2/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Determinants and consequences of the recognition of education among immigrants in Germany | Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim) discusses the determinants of immigrants' investments in official recognition of their education, and the labour market effects of this recognition in Germany. | 2/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Modeling individual-level heterogeneity in racial residential segregation | Yu Xie (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) explains how racial residential segregation works and how it is best modelled sociologically. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rethinking Social Capital | Dr. Small (University of Chicago) presents his mixed-methods work on child care centers and their roles on social capital building for mothers. | 12/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A new method for determining why length of life is more unequal in some societies than in others | Dr Glenn Firebaugh (Penn State University) presents the reasons behind life expectancy in a comparative perspective. | 12/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Peer effects, mobility, and innovation: evidence from the superstars of modern art | Dr Christiane Hellmanzik (University of Hamburg) describes how mobility and peer effects worked for superstars of modern art in the 19th century. | 12/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status | Luis Miller (University of the Basque Country) presentsaAn experimental sociology study on people's understanding of distributive justice, relative to their economic statuses (unemployed/employed). | 11/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic, and political sources of ideational cleavage: history wars in contemporary Estonia. | Ted Gerber (University of Wisconsin) presents the ethnic, socio-economic, linguistic and political sources of ideational cleavages in contemporary Estonia between Estonians and the Russian minority. | 11/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Regional integration and welfare-state convergence in Europe | Professor Beckfield discusses whether the welfare state convergence is really taking place, or it is just regional integration, especially in the European context. | 6/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Crossnational similarity and difference in the changing distribution of household income | The author addresses the question how the distribution of household income has been changing in recent decades. | 5/30/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The gender revolution: uneven and stalled | The author describes sweeping changes in the gender system and offers explanations for why change has been uneven. | 5/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ethnic stratification in Chinas labor markets- the case of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region | Ethnic Labour market discrimination in China, with a particular focus on the Uyghur Minority. | 5/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Effect of Maternal Stress on Birth Outcomes: Exploiting a Natural Experiment | Lecture delivered by Florencia Torche, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate at the Steinhardt School of Education, NYU and Research Affiliate at INSPIRES, NYU School of Medicine. | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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School Racial Composition and Racial Preferences for Friends among Adolescents | Lecture delivered by Jennifer Flashman (University of Oxford). | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gendered Divisions of Labour and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality | Lecture delivered by Jonathan Gershuny, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Public Attitudes to Poverty, Inequality and Welfare: What are the Implications for Social Policy? | Lecture delivered by Tim Horton, Research Director and Deputy General Secretary of the Fabian Society, Britain's leading left of centre think tank and political society. | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Prenatal Health, Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Inequality | Lecture delivered by Juho Härkönen, Assistant Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How Much Does Family Matter? A Cross-Cultural Study of the Impact of Kin on Birth and Death Rates | Lecture delivered by Dr Rebecca Sear, Lecturer in Population Studies, London School of Economics. | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Is IQ a "Fundamental Cause" of Health? Cognitive Ability, Gender, and Survival | Lecture delivered by Professor Robert M Hauser (University of Wisconsin-Madison). | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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