The Takeaway on Gen-Z, rest of the interview edition

The parts that made it into the show, and the parts that didn't.

Talking about generations with Jean Twenge

A good conversation. With transcript and audio.

Chasing Life podcast on making babies, or not

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has a podcast called Chasing Life about coming out of the pandemic. Associate producer Grace Walker interviewed me for an episode titled, "Let’s Talk About Making Babies (Or Deciding Not To)." In it reporter Chloe Melas starts with the story of a Black couple (two women, one of them trans) seeking…

Interview with Judith Stacey on the foundations of feminism in academia

I had the privilege of interviewing Judith Stacey for the Annex Sociology Podcast. Joseph Cohen asked me if I had any ideas for guest hosting the podcast, and this had been on my mind for a while -- the cohort of women who brought feminism into academia in the 1960s and 1970s. In the ongoing…

Review of Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach, with audio

I had the privilege of sitting on an author-meets-critics panel for the the book Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach, by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt, at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings this weekend. The panel was organized by Steven Vallas, and included Adia Harvey Wingfield. Because two other panelists canceled, I had a lot of time…

Family diversity for a marketing audience

I gave an online talk to a marketing audience yesterday. Here is the audio, edited down to 23 minutes. https://soundcloud.com/user-985691765/family-diversity-marketing-talk The first half is a presentation, and the second half is my answers to some of their questions. You don't need the slides to follow the talk, but here they are (click to enlarge).

Interrogating Ethnography comments

An audio version of my comments on Steven Lubet's new book, Interrogating Ethnography.

Sixteen minutes on The Tumbleweed Society

My review of Allison Pugh's book, in 16 minutes.