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by Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)
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 are sociologists at the newly created Adelaide University. A review recently published in Teaching Sociology describes the podcast as 'a model for public sociology in the podcast era'. www.sociologypodcast.comBecome a supporter of the podcast at https://buymeacoffee.com/sociologyofeverything
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- Dec 14, 202540 min
Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss introduce listeners to a noteworthy work in early classical sociology that often gets oversimplified for what it argues and observes about a key aspect of the process of modernisation. Georg Simmel’s noted essay on The Metropolis and Mental Life, originally published in 1903, provides varied insights about what effect living in an urban/metropolitan environment has on individuals and their psychologies, which includes the blasé attitude exhibited by...
- Sep 30, 202552 min
The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises (ft. Ernesto Verdeja) - Gaza, Genocide, & Social Theory (2 of 2)
In the second part of their series on Gaza, Genocide, and Social Theory, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss welcome Ernesto Verdeja onto their podcast to talk around an article Ernesto has written in the Journal of Genocide Research, titled ‘The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises’. In this wide-ranging discussion, Ernesto makes some very powerful points about why it is meaningful and apt to categorise the recent major loss of life in Gaza as a genocide, while also unpacking what the broader ramifications o...
- Sep 16, 202549 min
Bradley Campbell’s Genocide as Social Control - Gaza, Genocide, & Social Theory (1 of 2)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to social theory to try to make better sense of the tremendous loss of life in Gaza since October 2023. They appeal to an article written by Bradley Campbell, titled ‘Genocide and Social Control’, which was published in 2009 in Sociological Theory. If indeed developments in Gaza constitute a genocide, as bodies like the International Association of Genocide Scholars have asserted, then Campbell’s account of genocide is useful because it s...
- Sep 1, 20251h 2m
Donald MacKenzie & Judy Wajcman's Social Shaping of Technology (ft. Judy Wajcman)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss celebrate their podcast reaching a quarter million downloads by spotlighting a work that has significantly developed the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS): Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wajcman’s influential introductory chapter in their anthology on The Social Shaping of Technology, first published in 1985, and later updated in 1999. This text develops an oft cited critique of technological determinism, which posits that technology is an au...
- Jun 24, 202544 min
Illumonating Severance Through Classical Sociology
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss take the elevator to the severed floor of where they work so that their innies can talk about the sociological aspects of a television show they both really like, Apple TV+'s Severance. Partly drawing from a chapter written by Palmer and Schueths in the edited volume, Reintegrating Severance, Eric and Louis explore how ideas found in classical sociology can be used to ‘illumonate’ aspects of what we see unfolding in the show's first two seasons. Eri...
- Jun 3, 202543 min
Peter Conrad's Medicalization of Society
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss spotlight the sociological concept of medicalization and Peter Conrad’s influential understanding of this idea, as captured in Conrad’s chapter in Medical Sociology on the Move. Eric and Louis’s coverage of Conrad’s account of medicalization perhaps unsurprisingly leads them to talk about some pretty weird topics. These include Tucker Carlson’s interest in testicle tanning, how Louis asks his GP friend to take his blood pressure until he gets the re...
- May 12, 202541 min
Raewyn Connell & James Messerschmidt's Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss launch the fourth season of their podcast by examining a concept that sociologists continue to engage with to produce insightful understandings of how social life is gendered. They use Connell and Messerschmidt's article in Gender & Society and an earlier piece by Connell in Teachers College Record to explore how the concept of hegemonic masculinity has been theorised, applied, critiqued, and refined in various sociological discussions. Louis do...
- Jan 13, 202524 min
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 2024 by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the Anthropocene continues to feature in various discussions across different fields and sectors of society. But how might sociologists contribute to some of these conversations? Eva Lövbrand et al.'s ...
About 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 are sociologists at the newly created Adelaide University. A review recently published in Teaching Sociology describes the podcast as 'a model for public sociology in the podcast era'. www.sociologypodcast.comBecome a supporter of the podcast at https://buymeacoffee.com/sociologyofeverything
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