Culture & Inequality Podcast
Episodes
Beauty, Botox, Boundaries: Aesthetic Medical Procedures and Social Inequality
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why should social scientists and cultural scholars pay attention to aesthetic medical procedures? In this episode, Alka Menon (Yale University) and An...
From Happy Meat to Eco-Types: The Cultural Politics of the Climate Crisis
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meatscapes? Meat Paradoxes? Happy Meat? Eco-Types? In this episode, we interrogate the fraught ethical and cultural landscape of the climate crisis wi...
Gender as Battlefield: Far-Right Movements, Femonationalism and Replacement Ideology
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we take on big questions about gender and far-right politics with Sarah Bracke and Charléne Calderaro, two scholars who arrived at t...
The Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re speaking at a time of historic economic inequality, with current debates marked by a surge in public attention to elite power, influence, and ...
Risk and Loss in Times of Climate Crisis
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we’ll be discussing the climate crisis through the lens of risk, loss and the role of sociology. For a long time, environmental issu...
Our Digital Economic Lives
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back with a new season on anything culture and inequality! From clickbait culture and influencer marketing to content farms and algorithm-dri...
Seeing Others: Michèle Lamont on The Power of Recognition in a Divided World
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we host a special guest: Michèle Lamont (professor of Sociology at Harvard). We discuss her new book Seeing Others: How Recognition ...
Reprise: Culture, inequality, boundaries. Theoretical traditions and core texts
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
***This is a rerecording, updated, and better version of our very first episode, which we originally recorded in 2020. We hope you will enjoy this new...
Conspiracy theories, social justice & inequality
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about conspiracy theories and their relation to inequality. We talk about this with Elisa Sobo and Jaron Harambam, two scholars who ha...
Migration special 3: Media and Migration
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Migration has been a characteristic of societies for centuries. Humans have always migrated to either escape harsh lives, search for better ones, or b...
Migration special 2: Football, Race and Racism
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Music, Social Media and Migration
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of the special Culture & Inequality x IMISCOE The Migration Podcast trilogy, we discuss the linkages between migration and music...
Culture in Times of War I: Humour and jokes in war
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we will be hosting a series of special episodes on the cultural aspects of war. New events like war crequire m...
Race in practice
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Race is a pervasive and omnipresent dimension of inequality, both within societies and at a global scale. Yet it is the one dimension that is most dif...
Special episode: Hartmut Rosa, resonance and the sociology of the good life
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Hartmut Rosa, one of today’s ‘big thinkers’ in sociology, to talk about his work on the concept of resonance a...
Gender, bodies, and elites
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with prof. dr. Ashley Mears (Boston University) and dr. Anne Monier (ESSEC Paris) about gender and the body in contemporary e...
Hiring, matching, elites, and the bank of mum and dad: culture, inequality, and social mobility
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s all wealth, social mobility and class ceilings in this week’s episode as we ask ourselves: How does social mobility work, and why does it mat...
Parasite: culture and inequality in a Korean yet global film
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to our new season! It is Oscar season, and we thus watch last year's Best Picture winner Parasite, together with Ricky Changwook Kim (Han...
Semester epilogue: where do we go from here?
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode for this semester, we look back and ahead and ask, where do we go from here? We approach this in two ways: where does the study o...
Cultural beliefs about inequality: meritocracy, egalitarianism and inequality
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we turn the table and look at how non-sociologists, i.e. normal people believe about inequality. Giselinde speaks with dr. Jonathan Mijs (E...
Going beyond the Euro-American culture bubble
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Giselinde interviews dr. Predrag Cveticanin (University of Niš, Serbia) & dr. Yang Gao (Furman University, US) as we go beyond the b...
Food and Health Inequalities
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, dr. Julian Schaap (Erasmus University Rotterdam) talks to prof.dr. Jeroen van der Waal (EUR) and dr. Joost Oude Groeniger (EUR) about...
Elite cultures in St Barths, Milan social clubs and 'the VIP'
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Giselinde speaks with Bruno Cousin (assistant professor at SciencesPo Paris) and Sébastien Chauvin (associate prof at University of ...
Evaluative judgements: fields, value and time
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While ‘canons’ of culture were dismantled decades ago by postmodern, postcolonial and feminist critics, evaluative judgements about ‘the best’...
Classed bodies: Weight, appearance and class distinction
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Race, ethnicity and gender in popular music
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, dr. Julian Schaap (EUR)talks with dr. Jo Haynes (University of Bristol) on the role of race, ethnicity and gender in music. Of all fo...
Culture and inequality in intra-European migrations
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this session, we are joined by dr. Simone Varriale from the University of Lincoln, UK. He introduces students to the ways in which key concepts fro...
Social mobilities and cultural inequalities
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why do cultural producers discriminate when they think they are open to novelty? Why is it so difficult for people of colour or lower class people to ...
Cultural boundaries: Snob to omnivore to …?? New modes of cultural distinction
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode Drs Laurie Hanquinet and Dave O’Brien discuss the sociology of cultural consumption. Cultural consumption matters in lots of differe...
Growing inequalities, shifting cultural boundaries 2: cultural production
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the boundaries of what counts as art shift in American museums such as the Met? And how do elites maintain power in the process of o...
Culture, inequality, boundaries. Theoretical traditions and core texts
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this first pilot episode, we discuss the core themes of the course: how do culture and inequality relate? This meeting will discuss why and how thi...
Growing inequalities, shifting cultural boundaries 1: cultural consumption
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we go beyond the earlier classic approaches and discuss culture and inequality in the present age. How has cultural distinction chang...