By Manning Zhang We had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Musa al-Gharbi, the author of the widely acclaimed We Have Never Been Woke, a book that has sparked conversations both in the U.S. and around the world. Dr. al-Gharbi, a sociologist by training, and an Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University, connected with Manning Zhang, our student editor from Brandeis University, … Continue reading Interview with Musa al-Gharbi
By Giovanni Zampieri Giovanni Zampieri (G): Thank you for accepting the interview! I’d like you to introduce yourself and your work to kick things off. Matthew Norton (M): Hi! I’m Matt Norton, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. I think of my work as being a mixture of cultural sociology and historical sociology. The throughline that helps me focus on specific … Continue reading Interview with Matthew Norton
Clara Cirdan (C): Do you want to just tell us a bit about yourself, and your research and if you’d like to share any future plans or perspectives? Omar Lizardo (O): Hi, my name is Omar Lizardo, and I teach and do research at UCLA. A big chunk of my research has to do with cultural sociology – sociology of taste, mainly, and, more recently, … Continue reading Interview with Omar Lizardo
Beginning in 2024, Asia Friedman (University of Delaware), along with two of her colleagues, will assume the editorship of Sociological Forum, the Eastern Sociological Society’s flagship journal. Like her soon-to-be editorial predecessor Karen Cerulo, who has served as the journal’s editor for more than fifteen years, Friedman brings a cognitive cultural perspective to sociological inquiry. In particular, the cultural patterning of human thought, attention, and … Continue reading Questions with Asia Friedman
Manning Zhang (Brandeis University) interviews Talia Shiff (Tel Aviv University) about her research projects, and how legal studies and cultural sociology intersect in her work and life. Manning Zhang: First I want to congratulate you on receiving the 2022 Culture Section Clifford Geertz Award for your paper “A Sociology of Discordance: Negotiating Schemas of Deservingness and Codified Law in U.S. Asylum Status Determinations”! For today’s … Continue reading Four Questions with Talia Shiff
Wendy Griswold has been an important figure in the ASA Culture Section from the very beginning. She organized a session on the sociology of the arts when the section was created in 1986; she served as a council member in the 1990s; she won the book prize in 2000 for Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (Princeton University Press); and she has … Continue reading Cultural Sociology’s Rare Diamond: An Interview with Wendy Griswold
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