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Podcasts from The Department of Sociology. Sociology in Oxford is concerned with real-world issues with policy relevance, such as social inequality, organised crime, the social basis of political conflict and mobilization, and changes in family relationships and gender roles. Our research is empiric...
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Cees van der Eijk on “Contextualising Research Methods
Cees van der Eijk gives a talk for the Sociology seminar series. Cees van der Eijk discusses teaching quantitative methods, focussing on the need in...
Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences
Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focussing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, a...
John Fox on R software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students
John Fox discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especiall...
Robert Johns on SPSS and Stata software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Robert Johns (Essex University) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social scie...
Wendy Olsen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Wendy Olsen discusses her experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especi...
Robert Andersen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Robert Andersen discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, es...
Sean Carey on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Sean Carey (University of Mannheim, Germany) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduat...
Andrew Gelman on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Andrew Gelman (Columbia University, NYC) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate so...
Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off?
Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off?
Andy Field on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Andy Field (University of Sussex) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social sc...
Anti-politics in action: Do European protesters hate formal politics more than the general public?
Dr Clare Saunders (University of Exeter) presents her multi-staged surveys on European protests.
The Endtimes of Human Rights
Are we coming to an end of the human rights as a social science issue? Talk by Dr Stephen Hopgood (SOAS).
Manfred te Grotenhuis on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Manfred te Grotenhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to under...
Updating what we know about intergenerational time and money transfers in the U.S.
Prof. Bianchi (UCLA) presents a new survey component of American Time Use Data (ATUS) that investigates intergenerational time and money transfers.
Identifying age, period and cohort effects: Are the new methods really better?
Prof. Voas (University of Essex) presents new quantitative methods to analyse secularisation - religiosity.
Is there 'White Flight?' in England? Why Whites in Homogeneous English Wards Are More Opposed to Immigration
Prof. Kaufmann (Birbeck College) investigates whether Whites in homogeneous English neighbourhoods oppose immigration more.
Solving the Mona Lisa Smile, and Other Developments in Micro-empirical sociology
Seminar on what micro-sociology could tell us about predicting violence. Can micro-sociology give us clues to predict when a protest will become viole...
A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (Astor Visiting Lecture)
Are humans inherently selfish? Is there really an essential human nature? How do we contend about the selfish gene in this day and age? What do we mak...
Changing Relationships: The Role of Cohabitation
A study on how cohabitation affects marriage and re-marriage patterns in the UK. With Dr. Tiziano Nazio (University of Turin).
Issue Attention and Demobilization: How Social Movements shape the Policy Agenda when Issues are in Decline
Looking at how social movements shape the policy making agenda in the US when the issues the social movements are arguing for are in decline in the ma...
Understanding Conspiracy Theories Sociologically: Anti-Semitic Rhetoric about Dönmes (Converts) in Turkey
Research investigating the convert-Jews in Turkey with materials investigating historical accounts, popular conspiracy theory books and interviews wit...
Laura Stoker on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Laura Stoker discusses her experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. She c...
Income inequality and personality- Are more equal US States more agreeable?
How does inequality influence personal agreeableness?
Does Shame Always Go Hand in Hand With Poverty? Answers From an International Comparative Study
Is shame an automatic consequence of poverty? Can one be poor without being ashamed of it? A lecture from Professor Robert Walker, University of Oxfor...
Crimes in (social) Contexts: The Influence of Police Legitimacy on Offending Behaviour
How can we understand the influence of police on criminal behaviour?
Alan Agresti on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
Alan Agresti discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students. He co...
Paul Kellstedt on teaching quantitative methods to political science students
Paul Kellstedt discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students a...
Negative Intergroup Contact: Causes and Consequences
Dr. Eva Jaspers (University of Utrecht) on negative intergroup contact and how it can help us understand persistent ethnic bias.
The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Professor Anthony King (University of Exeter) looks at the modern infantry tactics and cohesion, with a perspective on conscripted vs. professional ar...
Bill Jacoby on teaching quantitative methods to political science students
Bill Jacoby discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate political science students and...
Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
Sociological analysis of the End of East German Socialism.
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Prof. Skocpol presents a detailed analysis of the rising Tea Party in the US and how Tea Party followers are different from Democrats.
Focal points, endogenous processes and exogenous shocks in the autism epidemic
Ka Yuet Liu (Columbia University) presents an insightful inquiry into autism epidemic.
Childbearing across partnerships
How does childbearing work across various types of partnerships, including but not limited to cohabitation, marriage, re-married couples.
Social mobility, marriage and societal openness in Great Britain, 1949-2006
How can we understand the social mobility patterns through marriage in Great Britain? A historical perspective.
Structural and exchange mobility in Britain and the USA: 1870-1970
Historical approach on social mobility in Britain and the US.
Determinants and consequences of the recognition of education among immigrants in Germany
Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim) discusses the determinants of immigrants' investments in official recognition of their education, and the labour...
Modeling individual-level heterogeneity in racial residential segregation
Yu Xie (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) explains how racial residential segregation works and how it is best modelled sociologically.
Rethinking Social Capital
Dr. Small (University of Chicago) presents his mixed-methods work on child care centers and their roles on social capital building for mothers.
A new method for determining why length of life is more unequal in some societies than in others
Dr Glenn Firebaugh (Penn State University) presents the reasons behind life expectancy in a comparative perspective.