The Sociology of Everything Podcast
von Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)
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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.com
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss launch season 5 of their podcast by examining a trailblazing feminist text in classical sociology, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7078639M/Women_an
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 Simme
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 (https://everdeja.weebly.com/) onto their podcast to talk around an article Ernesto has written in the Journal of Ge
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 Cont
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 (https://ww
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 dra
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 (https://doi.org/10
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
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 i
Louis Everuss's Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss shamelessly self-promote Louis’s monograph, Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders: How Digital Technologies Transform Migration and Sovereign Borders (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515
Arlie Hochschild's Sociology and Donald Trump
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 exploring a prominent sociological account of the (perplexing) appeal of Donald Trump. By focusi
Ning Wang's Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism
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 Wang (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-7383(98)00103-0), they consider how authenticity in tourism res
Anthony Giddens's Consequences of Modernity
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss do their best to have a reflexive discussion about a highly influential sociological account of the contemporary modern world: Anthony Giddens's idea of reflexive modernization, as captured in his
Karl Marx's Alienated Labour
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 influential ideas in the field of sociology, his theory of estranged/alienated labour (https://www.marxis
The Social Model of Disability (ft. Caroline Ellison)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to unpack a chapter in the Disability Studies Reader (https://www.routledge.com/The-Disability-Studies-Reader/Davis/p/book/9781138930230) by the noted disability researcher, Tom Shakespeare (
Zygmunt Bauman's Wasted Lives
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about Zygmunt Bauman's noted work, Wasted Lives (https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Wasted+Lives%3A+Modernity+and+Its+Outcasts-p-9780745631646) (2003), which explores how the process of
Hartmut Rosa's Social Acceleration Theory
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 'social acceleration'. Rosa's (2003) article in the journal, Constellations (https://doi.org/10.1111/146
Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory (ft. Charles Lemert)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore Immanuel Wallerstein's influential and innovative approach to theorizing inequalities at a global level, which regards capitalism as a 'world-system' (https://doi.org/10.1017/S001041750000
Justin Rosenberg's the Follies of Globalization Theory
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss entertain the possibility that one of the previous episodes they did wasted everyone's time. They have a chat about Justin Rosenberg's polemical argument (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products
Ulrich Beck's Risk Society
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine a sociological theory that some scholars believe is vital to understanding the social implications of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the hazards posed by anthropogenic global climate c
Louise Amoore's Biometric Borders
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss how biometric technologies and cultures are transforming how borders are constituted and being experienced in the contemporary era. The text their discussion revolves around is Louise Amoo
Emile Durkheim's Division of Labour in Society
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 Division of Labour in Society (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126617), which a
The Great Globalization Debate
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss how some sociologists have come to theorize the phenomenon of globalization. They do so by examining what’s come to be known as the ‘Great Globalization Debate’, as described by David Held
David Beer's Power through the Algorithm
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to unpack David Beer's article in New Media & Society, titled, 'Power through the Algorithm (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444809336551)'. Beer's work theorizes how algorithmic
Matthew Desmond & Mustafa Emirbayer's What is Racial Domination?
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss explore sociological understandings of race by examining Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer's article on 'What is Racial Domination? ' in the Du Bois Review (https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-
Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have an in-depth chat about Shoshana's Zuboff's theory of 'surveillance capitalism', which postulates the existence of a new variant of capitalism that significantly involves the digital monitorin
George Ritzer & Nathan Jurgenson's the Rise of Prosumer Capitalism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss consider George Ritzer and Nathan Jurgenson's theory of prosumer capitalism as articulated in their article in the Journal of Consumer Culture (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1469540
Linsey McGoey's Philanthrocapitalism and its Critics
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss examine the concept of 'philanthrocapitalism' by considering a sociological critique of it by Linsey McGoey in Poetics (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304422X12000150). Ph
The Ambiguous Legacy of Kuhn in Sociology
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 by Zaheer Baber in the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (https://journals.sagepub.com/
Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss Thomas Kuhn's noted work, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn puts forward a provocative theory of how scientific knowledge develops. While Eric and Louis ditch their old cheaply
