The Sociology of Everything Podcast
The Sociology of Everything Podcast offers listeners a (sometimes) comedic and accessible look at the wonders of sociology. It is created and hosted by Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss, who presently teach and do research in sociology at the University of South Australia (UniSA). www.sociologypodcast.com
Episodes
33 episodes
Who speaks for the Earth? The Anthropocene and Sociology
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about the idea of the Anthropocene, a concept that was originally developed within the field of Geology. Despite it not being formally recognised as a defined geological period in 20...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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24:05
Louis Everuss's Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss shamelessly self-promote Louis’s monograph, Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders: How Digital Technologies Transform Mig...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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43:45
Arlie Hochschild's Sociology and Donald Trump
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss mark their 10,000th follower on Spotify by giving the people what they want, which apparently means exploring a prominent sociological account of the (perplexing) appeal of Donald Trump. By focusing o...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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41:29
Ning Wang's Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss what it means to be 'authentic' in the context of tourism. By examining the work of Ning Wang, they consider how authenticity in tou...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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40:38
Anthony Giddens's Consequences of Modernity
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss do their best to have a reflexive discussion about a highly influential sociological account of the contemporary modern world: Anthony Giddens's idea of reflexive modernization, as captured in his wor...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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22:21
Karl Marx's Alienated Labour
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss launch the third season of their podcast by unpacking one of Karl Marx's most resonant and influential ideas in the field of sociology, his
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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23:09
The Social Model of Disability (ft. Caroline Ellison)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to unpack a chapter in the Disability Studies Reader by the noted disability researcher, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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41:15
Zygmunt Bauman's Wasted Lives
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about Zygmunt Bauman's noted work, Wasted Lives (2003), which e...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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31:09
Hartmut Rosa's Social Acceleration Theory
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss take time out of their somewhat busy schedules to talk about Hartmut Rosa's noted theory of 'social acceleration'. Rosa's (2003) article in the journal,
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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28:31
Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory (ft. Charles Lemert)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore Immanuel Wallerstein's influential and innovative approach to theorizing inequalities at a global level, which regards capitalism as a 'worl...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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39:39
Justin Rosenberg's the Follies of Globalization Theory
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss entertain the possibility that one of the previous episodes they did wasted everyone's time. They have a chat about Justin Rosenberg's
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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21:25
Ulrich Beck's Risk Society
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine a sociological theory that some scholars believe is vital to understanding the social implications of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the hazards posed by anthropogenic global climate chang...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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29:38
Louise Amoore's Biometric Borders
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss how biometric technologies and cultures are transforming how borders are constituted and being experienced in the contemporary era. The text their discussion revolves around is Louise Amoore's...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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26:08
Emile Durkheim's Division of Labour in Society
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss pay yet another visit to their dear friend, Emile Durkheim. They have a chat about his noted work, the Division of Labour in Society<...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:20
The Great Globalization Debate
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss how some sociologists have come to theorize the phenomenon of globalization. They do so by examining what’s come to be known as the ‘Great Globalization Debate’, as described by David Held et ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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29:54
David Beer's Power through the Algorithm
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to unpack David Beer's article in New Media & Society, titled, 'Power through the Algorithm'. Beer's work theo...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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24:14
Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer's What is Racial Domination?
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore sociological understandings of race by examining Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer's article on 'What is Racial Domination? ' in
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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31:30
Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have an in-depth chat about Shoshana's Zuboff's theory of 'surveillance capitalism', which postulates the existence of a new variant of capitalism that significantly involves the digital monitoring of...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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26:36
George Ritzer and Nathan Jurgenson's the Rise of Prosumer Capitalism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss consider George Ritzer and Nathan Jurgenson's theory of prosumer capitalism as articulated in their article in the Journal o...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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26:50
Linsey McGoey's Philanthrocapitalism and its Critics
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine the concept of 'philanthrocapitalism' by considering a sociological critique of it by Linsey McGoey in Poe...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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22:16
The Ambiguous Legacy of Kuhn in Sociology
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss the ambiguous legacy of Thomas Kuhn's work in the field of sociology by unpacking an article by Zaheer Baber in the
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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17:26
Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss Thomas Kuhn's noted work, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn puts forward a provocative theory of how scientific knowledge develops. While Eric and Louis ditch their ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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25:33
Patricia Hill Collins's Black Feminist Thought (ft. Frances Wyld)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have an introductory conversation about Patricia Hill Collins's work,
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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32:02
Dorothy Smith's Feminist Standpoint Theory
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine Dorothy Smith's account of feminist standpoint theory. Smith's work problematizes the view that sociological forms of knowledge are uncritically objective, preferring instead to highlight the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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19:11
Michel Foucault's Disciplinary Society (ft. Katrina Jaworski)
In this episode. Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine some key ideas from Michel Foucault's text, Discipline and Punish, which provides an innovative account of how power has come to be covertly expressed in the modern world. To il...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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28:42