Podcasts

Each month, several authors of articles published in ASA journals record podcasts in which they provide, through an interview format, an overview of their research. We invite you to listen to the latest podcasts and read the corresponding articles linked below. For ASA journal podcasts recorded prior to April 2024, please go to the individual journal websites at SAGE Publishing.

March 2025

Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco

by Nima Dahir and Jackelyn Hwang

The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women

Heidi E. Rademacher on The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women, by Fauzia Husain

Children's Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities

by Stefanie Möllborn, Jennifer A. Pace, and Bethany Rigles

Intersectional Group Agreement on the Occupational Order

by Freda B. Lynn, Yongren Shi, and Kevin Kiley

The Sociology of Mental Health and the Twenty-First-Century Mental Health Crisis

by Jason Schnittker

Weaponizing the Workplace: How Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon’s Antiunion Campaign in Bessemer, Alabama

by Teke Wiggin

February 2025

Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy

by Joya Misra

The Hidden Toll of Grief after Youth Gun Violence

by Nora Gross

January 2025

In the Field: Negotiating Access to Health Advice in California and to Electricity Consumption in Pakistan

Robert C. Hauhart on Embodied Politics: Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California, by Rebecca J. Hester and Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan, by Ijlal Naqvi

Complicating the ‘‘Suburban Advantage’’: Examining Racial and Gender Inequality in Suburban and Urban School Settings

by Emily E. N. Miller and Alejandro Schugurensky

Maya Guatemalans Seeking Asylum: Race and Gender in a Continuum of State Control

by Cecilia Menjívar and Andrea Gómez Cervantes

The Significance of Name-Based Racial Composition in Analyzing Neighborhood Disparities

by Karl Vachuska

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Balancing Pedagogy and Partnerships in an Undergraduate Community-Based Research Class

by Florencia Rojo

December 2024

Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps

by Sean F. Reardon, Ericka S. Weathers, Erin M. Fahle, Heewon Jang, and Demetra Kalogrides

The Philadelphia Negro at 125 Years: A Critical Commemoration

by Freeden Blume Oeur and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

Work–Family Life Course Trajectories and Women’s Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Defamilization Policies in 15 European Territories

by Ariel Azar

Discrimination in Sentencing: Showing Remorse and the Intersection of Race and Gender

by Jun Zhao and Christabel L. Rogalin

The Matrix of AI Agency: On the Demarcation Problem in Social Theory

by Fabian Anicker, Golo Flaßhoff, and Frank Marcinkowski

November 2024

To The Moon: Hype and Start-up Work

by Patrick Sheehan

Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students

by Martha Morales Hernandez, Josefina Flores Morales, and Laura E. Enriquez

Attitudes and Behavior Feedback Loops for Young Women’s Premarital Sex

by Michelle A. Eilers

October 2024

Pink Slips (for Some): Campus Employment, Social Class, and COVID-19

by Anthony Abraham Jack and Becca Spindel Bassett

Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians

by Demetrius Miles Murphy

Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda

by Freeden Blume Oeur

September 2024

Extending Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing Perinatal Outcomes Following This Policy Shift

by Margot Moinester and Kaitlyn K. Stanhope

Happiness Scholarship and Redistributive Preferences

by Tamkinat Rauf and Jeremy Freese

Rights Projects: A Relational Sociology of Rights in Globalization

by Minwoo Jung

“Replika Removing Erotic Role-Play Is Like Grand Theft Auto Removing Guns or Cars”: Reddit Discourse on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Sexual Technologies

by Kenneth R. Hanson and Hannah Bolthouse

August 2024

The Avoidance of Strong Ties

by Mario L. Small, Kristina Brant, and Maleah Fekete

Talking about Race in a Race-Taboo Land

by Beiyi Hu

Polygenic Indices (aka Polygenic Scores) in Social Science: A Guide for Interpretation and Evaluation

by Callie H. Burt

July 2024

Revisiting Durkheim: Social Integration and Suicide Clusters in U.S. Counties, 2006–2019

by Jessica Brantez and Jason N. Houle

Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans’ Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People

by Matthew K. Grace and Long Doan

Program Review with the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit for Sociology: Assessment of a Publicly Available Resource for Sociology Departments

by Stephen Sweet and Susan J. Ferguson

June 2024

Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence

by Paige L. Sweet

Urban Austerity Theory, Politicizing Space, and Cutback Policies across Urban and Rural Communities

by Linda Lobao and Paige Kelly

Cumulative Unionization and Physical Health Disparities among Older Adults

by Xiaowen Han, Tom VanHeuvelen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Zachary Parolin

From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory

by Ali Meghji

May 2024

Why Believe Conspiracy Theories?

by Meggan M. Jordan and Jennifer M. Whitmer

The Status Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs

by Saverio Roscigno

April 2024

Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States

by Walker Nelson Kahn

Translating Authentic Selves into Authentic Applications: Private College Consulting and Selective College Admissions

by Tiffany J. Huang

Slavery’s Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South

by Matthew Ward

One World, Many Stories: Finding Human Connection through Global Sociology

by Susan C. Pearce and Jennifer O'Neill

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