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Feb 26, 2015

Author Anna Mueller discusses her article, "Suicidal Disclosures among Friends: Using Social Network Data to Understand Suicide Contagion," written with co-author Seth Abrutyn, which was published in the March 2015 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Abstract: A robust literature suggests that suicide is...


Feb 26, 2015

William Tabb explains the ways the Regulation School has influenced his Structures of Accumulation approach, anjd discusses the important ways politics, culture, technology, and debt come together to impact the current forms of austerity and inequality evident in the US and...


Feb 25, 2015

William Tabb discusses the challenges of the mobilization of social movements such as Occupy Wall Street, and explains the problematic nature of non-hierarchical forms of resistance to contemporary, corporate capitalism before concluding with a description of his current...


Feb 25, 2015

Professor David Fasenfest of Wayne State University (critical.sociology@gmail.com), discusses his role as the editor of Critical Sociology. Fasenfest describes the widespread changes he has overseen in his years as the editor including but not limited to: a more international readership, the expansion of the...


Feb 12, 2015

Author Jeff Sallaz talks about his article, "Permanent Pedagogy: How Post-Fordist Firms Generate Effort but Not Consent," published in the February 2015 issue of Work and Occupations.

Abstract: We lack a compelling account of the post-Fordist labor process. When firms can no longer provide secure jobs at good pay, how...