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 May 2023, please go to the individual journal websites at SAGE Publishing.

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

March 2024

The Echo of Neighborhood Disadvantage: Multigenerational Contextual Hardship and Adult Income for Whites, Blacks, and Latinos

by Steven Elías Alvarado and Alexandra Cooperstock

What Does Good Qualitative Research Look Like? How to Do It?

Bin Xu on The Science and Art of Interviewing by Kathleen Gerson and Sarah Damaske, Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Data Analysis in Qualitative Research: Theorizing with Abductive Analysis by Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory

Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States

by Emily C. Dore, Surbhi Shrivastava, and Patricia Homan

Impostorization in Academia, Psychological Distress, and Class Reproduction

by Jo Phelan

Performing Social Control: Poverty Governance, Public Finance, and the Politics of Visibility

by John N. Robinson, III, Spencer Headworth, and Shai Karp

The For-Profit Side of Public U: University Contracts with Online Program Managers

by Laura T. Hamilton, Heather Daniels, Christian Michael Smith, and Charlie Eaton

February 2024

The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022

by Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank, and Evan Schofer

How LGBTQ+ People are Creating Change in their Faith Communities

by Orit Avishai, Jonathan S. Coley, Golshan Golriz, and Dawne Moon

Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data

by Kenneth R. Hanson and Nicholas Theis

January 2024

The Limitations of Using Women as a Lever of Development

Marnia Lazreg on Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

The Anti-Affirmative Action Avalanche: The Rise of Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at For-Profit Institutions

by David Mickey-Pabello

Ethno-Racial Stratification in the Refinanced Mortgage Market

by José Loya

Enduring Relationships: Social Aspects of Perceived Interactions with the Dead

by Karen A. Cerulo

Preparing for Medical School: How Sociology Helps Premedical Students Prepare for the MCAT and beyond

by Elizabeth Culatta, Melissa Powell-Williams, and Kim Davies

December 2023

Environmentalizing Urban Sociology

by Hillary Angelo and Miriam Greenberg

Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation

by Victoria E. Rodriguez, Laura E. Enriquez, Annie Ro, and Cecilia Ayón

The Multiple Meanings of Discrimination

by Catherine E. Harnois

The Moral Career of the Genocide Perpetrator: Cognition, Emotions, and Dehumanization as a Consequence, Not a Cause, of Violence

by Aliza Luft

November 2023

Machine Learning and the Reproduction of Inequality

by Sharla Alegria and Catherine Yeh

Managing a Household during a Pandemic: Cognitive Labor and Parents’ Psychological Well-being

by Richard J. Petts and Daniel L. Carlson

The Myth of Men’s Stable, Continuous Labor Force Attachment: Multitrajectories of U.S. Baby Boomer Men’s Employment

by Adrianne Frech, Jane Lankes, Sarah Damaske, and Adrienne Ohler

October 2023

The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline

by Rachel Kahn Best and Alina Arseniev-Koehler

New Experimental Evidence on Anti-Asian Bias in White Parents’ School Preferences

by Greer Mellon and Bonnie Siegler

“Why Can’t We Have Some Kind of Unity?” Cultural Contention Amongst Puerto Rican and Black Residents in Southern Suburbia

by Stephanie A. Dhuman

Teaching with TikTok in Online Sociology of Sex and Gender Courses

by Nik M. Lampe

September 2023

Contested Infrastructures: Water, Privatization, and Place-Based Protest in Greater Buenos Aires

by Maria Akchurin

The Effect of Welfare State Policy Spending on the Equalization of Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Mental Health

by Matthew Parbst and Blair Wheaton

A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics

by Faith M. Deckard, Andrew Messamore, Bridget J. Goosby, and Jacob E. Cheadle

The Moral Affordances of Construing People as Cases: How Algorithms and the Data They Depend on Obscure Narrative and Noncomparative Justice

by Barbara Kiviat

Parallel Development: Medicalization and Decriminalization in the Changing Media Framing of the Opioid Overdose Crisis

by Xinyan Wu

August 2023

Montgomery’s Monumental Truths

by David Cunningham and Christina Simko

July 2023

Working Around the Clock: The Association between Shift Work, Sleep Health, and Depressive Symptoms among Midlife Adults

by Cleothia Frazier

Navigating the Risks of Party Rape in Historically White Greek Life at an Elite College: Women’s Accounts

by Simone Ispa-Landa and Sara E. Thomas

The Rise of Asian Ethnoburbs: A Case of Self-Segregation?

by Samuel Kye

Love in the Time of COVID-19: The Social Dimensions of Intimate Life under Lockdown

by Alexander Borsa, Maximillian Calleo, Joshua Faires, Golda Kaplan, Shadiya Sharif, Dingyu Zhang, and Tey Meadow

Blended Pedagogy in Social Statistics Courses: Pre-Lecture Strategies for Encouraging Learning Among First-Generation College Students

by Amanda Mireles

June 2023

Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions

by Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutga

Contesting Reports of Racism, Contesting the Rights to Assess

by Tianhao Zhang

May 2023

America's Hidden Equalizing Machine

by Jessi Streib

Spatial and Sociodemographic Vulnerability: Quantifying Accessibility to Health Care and Legal Services for Immigrants in California, Arizona, and Nevada

by Ethan Roubenoff, Jasmijn Slootjes, and Irene Bloemraad