Department of Sociology Podcasts
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Cees van der Eijk on “Contextualising Research Methods
04 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Cees van der Eijk gives a talk for the Sociology seminar series. Cees van der Eijk discusses teaching quantitative methods, focussing on the need in ...
Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences
04 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focussing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, a...
John Fox on R software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students
28 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Fox discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especiall...
Robert Johns on SPSS and Stata software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students
28 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Johns (Essex University) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social scie...
Wendy Olsen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
28 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Olsen discusses her experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especi...
Robert Andersen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
28 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Andersen discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, es...
Sean Carey on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Carey (University of Mannheim, Germany) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduat...
Andrew Gelman on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Gelman (Columbia University, NYC) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate so...
Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off?
21 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off?
Andy Field on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
09 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Field (University of Sussex) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social sc...
Anti-politics in action: Do European protesters hate formal politics more than the general public?
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Clare Saunders (University of Exeter) presents her multi-staged surveys on European protests.
The Endtimes of Human Rights
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Are we coming to an end of the human rights as a social science issue? Talk by Dr Stephen Hopgood (SOAS).
Manfred te Grotenhuis on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Manfred te Grotenhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to under...
Updating what we know about intergenerational time and money transfers in the U.S.
17 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Bianchi (UCLA) presents a new survey component of American Time Use Data (ATUS) that investigates intergenerational time and money transfers.
Identifying age, period and cohort effects: Are the new methods really better?
17 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Voas (University of Essex) presents new quantitative methods to analyse secularisation - religiosity.
Is there 'White Flight?' in England? Why Whites in Homogeneous English Wards Are More Opposed to Immigration
17 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Kaufmann (Birbeck College) investigates whether Whites in homogeneous English neighbourhoods oppose immigration more.
Solving the Mona Lisa Smile, and Other Developments in Micro-empirical sociology
15 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Seminar on what micro-sociology could tell us about predicting violence. Can micro-sociology give us clues to predict when a protest will become viole...
A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (Astor Visiting Lecture)
13 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Are humans inherently selfish? Is there really an essential human nature? How do we contend about the selfish gene in this day and age? What do we mak...
Changing Relationships: The Role of Cohabitation
13 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A study on how cohabitation affects marriage and re-marriage patterns in the UK. With Dr. Tiziano Nazio (University of Turin).
Issue Attention and Demobilization: How Social Movements shape the Policy Agenda when Issues are in Decline
13 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Looking at how social movements shape the policy making agenda in the US when the issues the social movements are arguing for are in decline in the ma...
Understanding Conspiracy Theories Sociologically: Anti-Semitic Rhetoric about Dönmes (Converts) in Turkey
13 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Research investigating the convert-Jews in Turkey with materials investigating historical accounts, popular conspiracy theory books and interviews wit...
Laura Stoker on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Stoker discusses her experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. She c...
Income inequality and personality- Are more equal US States more agreeable?
30 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How does inequality influence personal agreeableness?
Does Shame Always Go Hand in Hand With Poverty? Answers From an International Comparative Study
30 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Is shame an automatic consequence of poverty? Can one be poor without being ashamed of it? A lecture from Professor Robert Walker, University of Oxfor...
Crimes in (social) Contexts: The Influence of Police Legitimacy on Offending Behaviour
30 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How can we understand the influence of police on criminal behaviour?
Alan Agresti on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
24 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Agresti discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. He co...
Paul Kellstedt on teaching quantitative methods to political science students
03 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Kellstedt discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students a...
Negative Intergroup Contact: Causes and Consequences
23 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Eva Jaspers (University of Utrecht) on negative intergroup contact and how it can help us understand persistent ethnic bias.
The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
22 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Anthony King (University of Exeter) looks at the modern infantry tactics and cohesion, with a perspective on conscripted vs. professional ar...
Bill Jacoby on teaching quantitative methods to political science students
18 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Jacoby discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students and ...
Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
07 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sociological analysis of the End of East German Socialism.
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
07 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Skocpol presents a detailed analysis of the rising Tea Party in the US and how Tea Party followers are different from Democrats.
Focal points, endogenous processes and exogenous shocks in the autism epidemic
09 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ka Yuet Liu (Columbia University) presents an insightful inquiry into autism epidemic.
Childbearing across partnerships
09 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
How does childbearing work across various types of partnerships, including but not limited to cohabitation, marriage, re-married couples.
Social mobility, marriage and societal openness in Great Britain, 1949-2006
09 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
How can we understand the social mobility patterns through marriage in Great Britain? A historical perspective.
Structural and exchange mobility in Britain and the USA: 1870-1970
20 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Historical approach on social mobility in Britain and the US.
Determinants and consequences of the recognition of education among immigrants in Germany
20 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim) discusses the determinants of immigrants' investments in official recognition of their education, and the labour ...
Modeling individual-level heterogeneity in racial residential segregation
30 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Yu Xie (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) explains how racial residential segregation works and how it is best modelled sociologically.
Rethinking Social Capital
06 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Small (University of Chicago) presents his mixed-methods work on child care centers and their roles on social capital building for mothers.
A new method for determining why length of life is more unequal in some societies than in others
06 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Glenn Firebaugh (Penn State University) presents the reasons behind life expectancy in a comparative perspective.
Peer effects, mobility, and innovation: evidence from the superstars of modern art
06 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Christiane Hellmanzik (University of Hamburg) describes how mobility and peer effects worked for superstars of modern art in the 19th century. Dr. ...
Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status
10 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Luis Miller (University of the Basque Country) presentsaAn experimental sociology study on people's understanding of distributive justice, relative to...
Ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic, and political sources of ideational cleavage: history wars in contemporary Estonia.
10 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Gerber (University of Wisconsin) presents the ethnic, socio-economic, linguistic and political sources of ideational cleavages in contemporary Est...
Regional integration and welfare-state convergence in Europe
08 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Beckfield discusses whether the welfare state convergence is really taking place, or it is just regional integration, especially in the Euro...
Crossnational similarity and difference in the changing distribution of household income
30 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The author addresses the question how the distribution of household income has been changing in recent decades. After situating contemporary trends in...
The gender revolution: uneven and stalled
27 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The author describes sweeping changes in the gender system and offers explanations for why change has been uneven. In this article, the author describ...
Ethnic stratification in Chinas labor markets- the case of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
27 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Ethnic Labour market discrimination in China, with a particular focus on the Uyghur Minority. This paper analyzes a sample from the 2005 mini-census d...
The Effect of Maternal Stress on Birth Outcomes: Exploiting a Natural Experiment
20 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture delivered by Florencia Torche, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate at the Steinhardt School of Education, NYU and Research ...
School Racial Composition and Racial Preferences for Friends among Adolescents
20 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture delivered by Jennifer Flashman (University of Oxford). Adolescents experience different levels of exposure to individuals of other races. Thei...
Gendered Divisions of Labour and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
20 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture delivered by Jonathan Gershuny, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.
Public Attitudes to Poverty, Inequality and Welfare: What are the Implications for Social Policy?
20 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture delivered by Tim Horton, Research Director and Deputy General Secretary of the Fabian Society, Britain's leading left of centre think tank and...
Prenatal Health, Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Inequality
20 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture delivered by Juho Härkönen, Assistant Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. Childhood conditi...
How Much Does Family Matter? A Cross-Cultural Study of the Impact of Kin on Birth and Death Rates
20 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture delivered by Dr Rebecca Sear, Lecturer in Population Studies, London School of Economics.
Is IQ a "Fundamental Cause" of Health? Cognitive Ability, Gender, and Survival
20 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture delivered by Professor Robert M Hauser (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Long-term studies of cognitive ability and mortality have documented...