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The Sociology Show

Matthew Wilkin

Science

Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 211

The Sociology show hosted by Matthew Wilkin conducts interviews with a range of different people within the world of Sociology.

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03/07/2026
#96
🇨🇦 Canada - socialSciences
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Interview with Professor Paul Seabright on religion and the divine economy

vendredi 26 juillet 2024 • Duration 42:08

In this episode, Matthew talks to Professor Paul Seabright about his book 'The divine economy' and how religions operate as successful businesses in order to make profit and demonstrate power. Paul explains why we must carefully consider the question of secularisation, how religions can gain power in both positive and negative ways and how the story of one young girls tells us a lot about the impact religion can have on an individual.

You can watch the video version here -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvKRkCZoe0&t=134s

You can book online lessons here - https://calendly.com/sociologyshowtutoring

Interview with Anton Roberts on homelessness and masculinity

mercredi 5 juin 2024 • Duration 41:19

In this episode, Matthew talks to Anton Roberts about his research on homelessness and masculinity. Anton is a researcher at the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at Manchester Metropolitan University, within the disciplines of Sociology and Criminology. His specific research areas of focus are homelessness and exaggerated 'hyper' forms of masculinity.

You can lcontact Anton on email - A.Roberts@mmu.ac.uk

You can now book online one to one tutoring with Matthew from the Sociology show here -https://calendly.com/sociologyshowtutoring

Interview with Paula Wright on Feminism vs Female choice

lundi 10 avril 2023 • Duration 37:48

In this episode, Matthew talks to writer and Darwinian scholar, Paula Wright. Through her MSc in Psychology, Culture and Evolution (Evolutionary Psychology) at Brunel London, Paula has questioned Feminism for ignoring biology and that some forms of Feminism actually restrict female choice. The discussion considers whether Sociology as a discipline is too quick to make the assumption that all behaviour is socially constructed by ignoring biological differences. As Paula notes on her website - 'History has demonstrated many times, that whenever our species attempts to take control of biology and bend it out of shape to ideological goals, human tragedy always follows'.

You can read more from Paula here - https://paulawright.substack.com/ and follow her on twitter - @SexyIsntSexist

A discussion on violence against women and girls

jeudi 18 mars 2021 • Duration 36:29

In this episode, Matthew talks to Deanna Dadusc, Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti and Stephen Burrell about the issue of violence against women and girls following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard. The discussion focuses on what the murder of Sarah Everard tells us about society already and considers the systemic and structural changes that need to happen in order to tackle this ongoing issue.

You can follow the contributors to this show on twitter too -
@Deanka7
@RoxyCavalcanti
@the_daily_panda

Interview with Duncan Exley

lundi 15 mars 2021 • Duration 36:03

In this episode, Matthew talks to Duncan Exley about his book 'The End of Aspiration?
Social Mobility and Our Children’s Fading Prospects'. Duncan discusses some of the people he spoke to via semi structured interviews about their experiences of moving up from a working class childhood into a higher social status and some of the challenges they encountered on that journey.

Studying Sociology as an adult with Sarah McLaughlin

jeudi 11 mars 2021 • Duration 38:25

In this episode, Matthew talks to Sarah McLaughlin about studying Sociology as an adult through an access course. Sarah explains the structure, grading and content of the course and what students can expect. She also talks through some of the challenges of returning to the classroom as an adult especially for those that have spent some time out of education.

Interview with Andrew Doyle (AKA Titania McGrath)

lundi 8 mars 2021 • Duration 44:37

In this episode, Matthew talks to the comedian, journalist and political satirist - Andrew Doyle. Andrew is perhaps best known for being the co-creator of the fictional character Jonathan Pie and for being the man behind the Titania McGrath parody account on twitter. In part one Andrew talks about Titania in relation to the culture wars, the social justice movement and wokeism. In the second half of the interview Andrew discusses his new book 'Free speech and why it matters'.

Sociology in China with Richard Driscoll

jeudi 4 mars 2021 • Duration 25:03

In this episode, Matthew talks to Richard Driscoll who is a teacher at Shenzhen College of International Education about his experiences of teaching the subject in China for the last seven years. Richard explains how Sociology has gained a very high status amongst the students and also about a recent webinar he delivered linking Sociological issues to the pandemic.

Interview with Dr Jasmine Harris on racial inequality

lundi 1 mars 2021 • Duration 40:57

In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr Jasmine Harris - an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ursinus College. Jasmine holds a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, a Masters degree in Public Communications from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Dr. Harris’ research, writing, and teaching, focus on the impacts of racism and racial inequality on Black communities and Black people as individuals, particularly when living and working in predominantly white institutional settings. Her examination of academic experiences among DI football and men’s basketball players has appeared in the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Her forthcoming book examines the impacts of educational racism on Black women in the U.S.

Studies and Sociologists to use for the Religion and Beliefs topic (STUDENT SPECIAL)

jeudi 25 février 2021 • Duration 21:26

In this episode, Matthew talks through some key studies that are useful for the beliefs and religion topic covering issues such as Scientology, secularisation, spirituality, age and religion and apostasy.