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. ASA journal podcasts*, including those recorded prior to October 2024, are available on Spotify, Apple, Libsyn, and the individual journal webpages at Sage Publishing. [*Note: Journal of World-Systems Research podcasts are published separately here: Spotify, Libsyn.]

June 2026

The Paradoxes of Trans Identity Claims

by Eduardo Duran

May 2026

Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

Christopher M. Rea on Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future, by Zeke Baker

Negotiating Competing Sexual Rights: The Unwritten, Fragmented Norms for Making Romantic Advances in the Workplace

by Chloe Grace Hart

Unequal Pathways: Family Background and Youth Computing Aspirations

by Jennifer M. Ashlock and Zeynep Tufekci

April 2026

Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence

by Shay O’Brien

DIY Faith

by Landon Schnabel, Ilana M. Horwitz, Peyman Hekmatpour, and Cyrus Schleifer

Joint Text-and-Image Clustering for Social Science Research

by Han Zhang and Ryan Leung

Trauma Pouring: The Uses, Risks, and Costs of Retelling Trauma

by Caleb E. Dawson

Exploring the Impacts of Students’ Characteristics, Pedagogical Activities, and Course Structure on Personal Resonance and Practical Applications of Transformative Pedagogy

by Oral Robinson and Rohil Sharma

March 2026

Places for Public Discourse: Walkability and Protest in the United States

by Evan Ferstl

The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American Obsession

Gary Alan Fine on The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American Obsession, by Zev Eleff

Low-Density Zoning and Health Disparities in Metro Areas

by Kate W. Strully, Tse-Chuan Yang, Chunxu Fang, and Han Liu

The Impact of Differing Identity Meanings on Fears of Death

by Justin Huft

Neighborhood Context, Divine Struggles, and Psychological Distress

by Terrence D. Hill, Pui Yin Cheung, David S. Curtis, Yehua D. Wei, Laura Upenieks, and Ming Wen

Specifying Race: The Colonial Constitution of Race in a Set-Theoretic Framework

by Luna Vincent

Seen as Latino, Assumed Lower Class: Racialized Class and Immigrant Status Perceptions in the United States

by Cynthia Feliciano, Zhongze Wei, Maria Abascal, and Wendy D. Roth

February 2026

After DEI: A Different Future for Race, Work, and Policy

by Adia Harvey Wingfield

How the Student Loan Repayment Pause Increased Latinx Borrowers’ Agency and Diversified Their Spectrum of Emotions

by Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Melissa Quesada, and Kimberly Garcia-Galvez

January 2026

Project Management for Researchers: A Practical, Stress-Free Guide to Getting Organized

Alice Mattoni on Project Management for Researchers: A Practical, Stress-Free Guide to Getting Organized, by Shiri Noy

The Great Leveler? Juvenile Arrest, College Attainment, and the Future of American Inequality

by Garrett Baker, David S. Kirk, and Robert J. Sampson

Making the Case for Afghan Adjustment: The Racial Politics of Post-War Status Adjustment

by Neha Lund

December 2025

Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia’s Civil War

by Laura Acosta

Speaking of Infrastructures: Industrial Transportation Infrastructure Decline as Symbol of Changing Place Meanings in the American Rust Belt

by Amanda McMillan Lequieu

From Wonder Woman to Fifty Shades

by Alicia M. Walker and Arielle Kuperberg

Internalized Sexism and Well-Being in the United States

by Matthew A. Andersson and Anastasia N. McSwain

Information Frequency, Value, and Difficulty as Sources of Social Inequality: Competitive Imbalances on Jeopardy!

by Kyle Siler

Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender

by Yuchen Yang

November 2025

The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement

Tara Leigh Tober on The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, by Hajar Yazdiha

Diving in: Connecting Reproductive Justice, Sexualities, and Knowledge Production

by Zakiya Luna

Social Relationships and Mental Health Disparities by Race/Ethnicity in Late-middle-age and Older Adulthood

by Wenhua Lai

Antiblack Discrimination in Public Accommodations: Differential Drink Pricing in Urban Nightclubs

by Reuben A. Buford May, Matthew Soener, Carileigh Jones, and Quinesha Bentley

October 2025

The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of Occupational Prestige and Gender Typing in the United States, 1900 to 2019

by Wenhao Jiang

How White Americans Decide What's Racist and Sexist

by Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright

Social Reproduction at a Minority Serving Institution: STEM Capital Disparities among Children of Immigrants

by María G. Rendón, Ashley Hernandez, and David R. Schaefer

Resisting Enforcement: The Civic and Political Mobilization Effects of Encountering the Immigration Enforcement System

by Cinthia J. Romo Alba, Ariela Schachter, and Margot Moinester

Free to Learn: Ungrading in Sociology Courses

by Dawson P. R. Vosburg, Alex M. Kempler, and Sam Mitchell

September 2025

Investigating the Tenant Selection Practices of Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Landlords on Long Island

by Jenna Davis and Amanda Cassell

Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price

Laura Nichols on Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price by Anthony Abraham Jack

Stability and Volatility in the Contextual Predictors of Working-Age Mortality in the United States

by Jennifer Montez, Shannon M. Monnat, Emily E. Wiemers, Douglas A. Wolf, and Xue Zhang

(Geo)culture and the West’s War Against Gaza

by Peter Wilkin

Confessions of a Recently Outed Social Psychologist: The 2024 Cooley-Mead Award Address

by Brian Powell

Dual-Process Theory, Behavioral Research, and the Explanation of Social Inequalities

by Carlo Barone

The New Social Roots of School Shootings: A Refined Constellation Theory of Rampage Attacks

by David Russell, Jon Gordon, and Kelly M. Thames

August 2025

Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents

by Greer Mellon

The Daily Lives of Crowdsourced U.S. Respondents: A Time Use Comparison of MTurk, Prolific, and ATUS

by Gordon Rinderknecht, Long Doan, and Liana C. Sayer

July 2025

Identity Characteristics as Moderators of Discrepancy on Well-Being

by Mary Gallagher

Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought: Content and Structure in the United States

by Katherine Jensen, Monika Krause, and Benjamin Witkovsky

Examining Engagement, Note-Taking, and Multitasking in Podcast-Based Learning

by Jamie Oslawski-Lopez and Gregory T. Kordsmeier

Without Risk Reduction: How Black Men’s Well-being and Humanity Are Compromised in Mobile Public Spaces

by Gwendolyn Y. Purifoye and Derrick R. Brooms

Consequences of Eviction-Led Forced Mobility for School-Age Children in Houston

Peter Hepburn, Danny Grubbs-Donovan, Nick Graetz, Olivia Jin, and Matthew Desmond

The Employable Sociologist: A Guide for Undergraduates

Catherine Richards Solomon on The Employable Sociologist: A Guide for Undergraduates, by Martha Martinez

June 2025

Frame Backfire: The Conundrum of Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States

by Fabiana Silva, Irene Bloemraad, and Kim Voss

The Reign of Racialized Residential Sorting: Gentrification and Residential Mobility in the Twenty-First Century

by Jackelyn Hwang and Iris H. Zhang

Racial Capitalism and Black–White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis

by Reed T. DeAngelis

Nurturing a Sociology of Sex and Sexualities

by Krystale Littlejohn and Amy Stone

Conservatorships: Coercion without Care or Control

by Alex V. Barnard

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