The Sociology of Everything Podcast
Episodes
Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss introduce listeners to a noteworthy work in early classical sociology that often gets oversimplified for w...
The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises (ft. Ernesto Verdeja) - Gaza, Genocide, & Social Theory (2 of 2)
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Bradley Campbell’s Genocide as Social Control - Gaza, Genocide, & Social Theory (1 of 2)
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 202...
Donald MacKenzie & Judy Wajcman's Social Shaping of Technology (ft. Judy Wajcman)
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss celebrate their podcast reaching a quarter million downloads by spotlighting a work that has significantly...
Illumonating Severance Through Classical Sociology
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 sociolog...
Peter Conrad's Medicalization of Society
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss spotlight the sociological concept of medicalization and Peter Conrad’s influential understanding of thi...
Raewyn Connell & James Messerschmidt's Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Who speaks for the Earth? The Anthropocene and Sociology
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Louis Everuss's Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss shamelessly self-promote Louis’s monograph, Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders: How Digital Technologi...
Arlie Hochschild's Sociology and Donald Trump
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 explor...
Ning Wang's Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Anthony Giddens's Consequences of Modernity
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss do their best to have a reflexive discussion about a highly influential sociological account of the contem...
Karl Marx's Alienated Labour
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 influentia...
The Social Model of Disability (ft. Caroline Ellison)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to unpack a chapter in the Disability Studies Reader by the noted disability researcher, Tom Shakespe...
Zygmunt Bauman's Wasted Lives
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about Zygmunt Bauman's noted work, Wasted Lives (2003), which explores how the proc...
Hartmut Rosa's Social Acceleration Theory
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 'soc...
Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory (ft. Charles Lemert)
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore Immanuel Wallerstein's influential and innovative approach to theorizing inequalities at a gl...
Justin Rosenberg's the Follies of Globalization Theory
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss entertain the possibility that one of the previous episodes they did wasted everyone's time. They hav...
Ulrich Beck's Risk Society
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine a sociological theory that some scholars believe is vital to understanding the social implications...
Louise Amoore's Biometric Borders
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss how biometric technologies and cultures are transforming how borders are constituted and being exp...
Emile Durkheim's Division of Labour in Society
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Div...
The Great Globalization Debate
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss how some sociologists have come to theorize the phenomenon of globalization. They do so by examini...
David Beer's Power through the Algorithm
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to unpack David Beer's article in New Media & Society, titled, 'Power through the Algor...
Matthew Desmond & Mustafa Emirbayer's What is Racial Domination?
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore sociological understandings of race by examining Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer's arti...
Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have an in-depth chat about Shoshana's Zuboff's theory of 'surveillance capitalism', w...
George Ritzer & Nathan Jurgenson's the Rise of Prosumer Capitalism
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss consider George Ritzer and Nathan Jurgenson's theory of prosumer capitalism as articulated in their a...
Linsey McGoey's Philanthrocapitalism and its Critics
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine the concept of 'philanthrocapitalism' by considering a sociological critique of it by Li...
The Ambiguous Legacy of Kuhn in Sociology
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss Thomas Kuhn's noted work, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn puts forward a prov...
Patricia Hill Collins's Black Feminist Thought (ft. Frances Wyld)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have an introductory conversation about Patricia Hill Collins's work, Black Feminist Thought, which m...
Dorothy Smith's Feminist Standpoint Theory
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine Dorothy Smith's account of feminist standpoint theory. Smith's work problematizes the vi...
Michel Foucault's Disciplinary Society (ft. Katrina Jaworski)
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode. Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine some key ideas from Michel Foucault's text, Discipline and Punish, which provides an innovati...
Michel Foucault's Power/Knowledge
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode. Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a conversation about Michel Foucault’s unique theoretical understanding of power, which tries to un...
Emile Durkheim's Theory of Suicide
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss Emile Durkheim's sociological study of suicide. In a conversation about a somber topic, Eric ...
Emile Durkheim's Social Facts
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss unpack one of Emile Durkheim's most important contributions to the field of sociology, his concept of...
Paul du Gay's In Praise of Bureaucracy
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore whether or not bureaucracies unfairly get a bum rap in sociology. This leads them to discuss Paul ...
Max Weber's Bureaucracy
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy. They discuss why it continues to have resonance in the 21s...
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss one of the most noteworthy texts in classical sociology, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The ...
Zygmunt Bauman's Thinking Sociologically
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss delve into Zygmunt Bauman's erudite account of sociology. They explore Bauman's fascinating argu...
C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination (ft. Paula Geldens)
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore the introductory chapter of C Wright Mills's influential text, the Sociological Imagination.O...