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This Podcast introduces and explains sociological thinkers and thoughts.

Dominik


    • Oct 14, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 27m AVG DURATION
    • 9 EPISODES


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    Surrogacy, Technology, Economics - An Interview with Ingvill Stuvøy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2022 65:14


    In this episode, I talk to Ingvill Stuvøy about surrogacy, technology and the economics behind it...and about Karl Marx. Yes!

    City of Men: An Interview with Romit Chowdhury

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2022 50:48


    An interview with Romit Chowdhury about men, masculinity and city life. Romit is currently based at the University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Reading recommendations will follow soon.

    Pierre Bourdieu on the Peasant and His Body

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2021 25:08


    In this episode, I will attend to one of the lesser known texts of Pierre Bourdieu: The Peasant and His Body. The text was published as a  chapter in Bourdieu's last book and as a separate article in the journal Ethnography. The body takes centerstage in this ethnographic analysis of the lifeworld of the peasant in Bourdieu's home region of Béarn. 

    Simmel's Metropolis and The Mental Life

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2021 29:08


    In this episode, I attend to Simmel's  famous text The Metropolis and The Mental Life which was published in 1903. It seems as if this one has aged pretty well and may still be a valid description of the urban lifestyle.

    Talcott Parsons - The Structure of Social Action (1937): Introduction and Unit Act

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 23:52


    In this episode, I introduce one of sociology's most important, yet, most difficult works: Talcott Parsons' two-volume epos The Structure of Social Action, originally published in 1937. Aside from a brief overview and introduction, I am also going to outline its most important theoretical concept: the unit act.Some suggestions for further reading:Joas and Knöbl (2009): Social Theory - Twenty Introductory Lectures.Richard Münch (1994): Sociological Theory - From the 1920's to the 1960's.And, of course, the man himself, Talcott Parsons (1968/1937): The Structure of Social Action - Volume I and II.

    Émile Durkheim on Social Facts

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2020 14:22


    This episode zooms in on Durkheim's concept of social facts as outlined in The Rules of the Sociological Method.

    Georg Simmel - Formal Sociology

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 14:02


    In this episode, I introduce Georg Simmel's idea of a 'formal sociology' and use his ideas about 'conflict' and 'the stranger' as an example.

    Max Weber - Rationality is Queen, Part I

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2020 16:38


    Welcome to the first part of my introduction to Max Weber. This episode introduces and illustrates some of his most important concepts and gives a short and concise summary of his most famous work: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

    Sociologists - Children of the Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 4:50


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