Bästa Culture Inequality podcaster (2024)

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Seeing Others: Michèle Lamont on The Power of Recognition in a Divided World 1:03:11

12M ago1:03:11

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In this episode, we host a special guest: Michèle Lamont (professor of Sociology at Harvard). We discuss her new book Seeing Others: How Recognition Works--And How It Can Heal a Divided World, which centers on the role of recognition and dignity in countering inequality after decades of neoliberalism. Based on interviews with cultural change agents…

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Reprise: Culture, inequality, boundaries. Theoretical traditions and core texts 1:11:58

2y ago1:11:58

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***This is a rerecording, updated, and better version of our very first episode, which we originally recorded in 2020. We hope you will enjoy this new version! ***In this first pilot episode, we discuss the core themes of the course: how do culture and inequality relate? This meeting will discuss why and how this has become such a central theme in …

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Conspiracy theories, social justice & inequality 1:03:30

2+ y ago1:03:30

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This episode is about conspiracy theories and their relation to inequality. We talk about this with Elisa Sobo and Jaron Harambam, two scholars who have studied contemporary conspiracy theories in a range of domains, from vaccines, Covid-19 and Big Pharma, to theories that claim the moon is an abandoned spaceship brought here by reptilians who cont…

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Migration special 3: Media and Migration 1:02:12

2+ y ago1:02:12

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Migration has been a characteristic of societies for centuries. Humans have always migrated to either escape harsh lives, search for better ones, or both. Continuing immigration flows and increasing diversity in many societies have led to more complex processes of belonging and integration, as well as the emergence of cross-border engagements of mi…

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Migration special 2: Football, Race and Racism 58:42

2+ y ago58:42

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Migration special 2: Football, Race and Racism by Culture & Inequality PodcastAv Culture & Inequality Podcast

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Music, Social Media and Migration 56:34

2+ y ago56:34

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In this first episode of the special Culture & Inequality x IMISCOE The Migration Podcast trilogy, we discuss the linkages between migration and music. For centuries, music has been a powerful source of individual and social well-being, something which studies from psychology to sociology to medicine continue to demonstrate. As people migrated, mus…

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Culture in Times of War I: Humour and jokes in war 1:02:45

2+ y ago1:02:45

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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we will be hosting a series of special episodes on the cultural aspects of war. New events like war crequire meaning making, new icons, symbols, ideas to make sense of what is going on in life. But war also suppresse culture as some things cannot be said anymore or have dangerous consequences. We dive into th…

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Race in practice 1:02:23

3y ago1:02:23

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Race is a pervasive and omnipresent dimension of inequality, both within societies and at a global scale. Yet it is the one dimension that is most difficult to talk about. Even the word itself, race, is fraught. How to use the concept of race? How is race done in practice? And how does it create and perpetuate social inequalities? We talk about thi…

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Special episode: Hartmut Rosa, resonance and the sociology of the good life 51:48

3y ago51:48

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In this episode, we are joined by Hartmut Rosa, one of today’s ‘big thinkers’ in sociology, to talk about his work on the concept of resonance and how it relates to inequalities. After becoming popular in Germany, his work is now gaining ground in anglophone sociology too. But what does resonance mean? What is a sociology of the good life? And how …

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Gender, bodies, and elites 48:36

3+ y ago48:36

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In this episode, we talk with prof. dr. Ashley Mears (Boston University) and dr. Anne Monier (ESSEC Paris) about gender and the body in contemporary elites. Both sociologists have done extensive ethnographic research on elites – respectively the global VIP party circuit, and the Philantropic scene of the 'American friends' of French cultural instit…

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Hiring, matching, elites, and the bank of mum and dad: culture, inequality, and social mobility 45:41

3+ y ago45:41

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It’s all wealth, social mobility and class ceilings in this week’s episode as we ask ourselves: How does social mobility work, and why does it matter for culture and inequality?Dave O’Brien talks with Maren Toft (Uni Oslo) and Sam Friedman (LSE) about parental wealth, cultural matching, the class ceiling and labour market outcomes. How does the ban…

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Parasite: culture and inequality in a Korean yet global film 49:12

3+ y ago49:12

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Welcome back to our new season! It is Oscar season, and we thus watch last year's Best Picture winner Parasite, together with Ricky Changwook Kim (Handong Global University) and Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University). What does this movie tells us about the link between culture and inequalities? Are these links and inequalities culturally specific…

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Semester epilogue: where do we go from here? 54:40

4y ago54:40

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In the final episode for this semester, we look back and ahead and ask, where do we go from here? We approach this in two ways: where does the study of culture and inequality go from here? Based on our podcast, what is the direction for fruitful research? And what have been the missing links? Secondly, this is for a small part also a meta-podcast, …

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Cultural beliefs about inequality: meritocracy, egalitarianism and inequality 1:16:56

4y ago1:16:56

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This week, we turn the table and look at how non-sociologists, i.e. normal people believe about inequality. Giselinde speaks with dr. Jonathan Mijs (EUR/Harvard) and prof. dr. Magne Flemmen to dive deeper in the relation between rising inequalities, meritocratic beliefs, and egalitarianism. Inequalities are rising yet people seem to care increasing…

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Going beyond the Euro-American culture bubble 1:16:57

4y ago1:16:57

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In this episode, Giselinde interviews dr. Predrag Cveticanin (University of Niš, Serbia) & dr. Yang Gao (Furman University, US) as we go beyond the bubble of Western-European, North-American cultural sociology. How does cultural distinction and social capital work in Serbia? Why do Chinese tv consumers love GossipGirl? How are post-socialist Serbia…

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Food and Health Inequalities 1:12:32

4y ago1:12:32

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In this episode, dr. Julian Schaap (Erasmus University Rotterdam) talks to prof.dr. Jeroen van der Waal (EUR) and dr. Joost Oude Groeniger (EUR) about the relation between health inequalities and social and cultural inequalities. Negative health outcomes such as low life expectancy and disease prevalence are often linked to lower classes, usually f…

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Elite cultures in St Barths, Milan social clubs and 'the VIP' 1:08:20

4y ago1:08:20

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In this episode, Giselinde speaks with Bruno Cousin (assistant professor at SciencesPo Paris) and Sébastien Chauvin (associate prof at University of Lausanne) about the elite culture of what is popularly called 'the top 1 percent'. Based on their research on the French Caribbean luxury destination of St Barths, social clubs in Milan, and Ashley Mea…

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Evaluative judgements: fields, value and time 1:05:40

4y ago1:05:40

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While ‘canons’ of culture were dismantled decades ago by postmodern, postcolonial and feminist critics, evaluative judgements about ‘the best’ and ‘best ever’ continue unabated in the cultural field and in everyday life. We find examples of these judgements in the prizes and awards bestowed by powerful institutions but also in the relentless to and…

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Classed bodies: Weight, appearance and class distinction 1:09:40

4y ago1:09:40

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Classed bodies: Weight, appearance and class distinction by Culture & Inequality PodcastAv Culture & Inequality Podcast

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Race, ethnicity and gender in popular music 56:42

4y ago56:42

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In this episode, dr. Julian Schaap (EUR)talks with dr. Jo Haynes (University of Bristol) on the role of race, ethnicity and gender in music. Of all forms of popular culture and art, popular music remains one of the primary platforms of identity formation. While music alledgedly ‘brings people together’ across various sociatal cleavag-es, in practic…

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Culture and inequality in intra-European migrations 1:05:42

4y ago1:05:42

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In this session, we are joined by dr. Simone Varriale from the University of Lincoln, UK. He introduces students to the ways in which key concepts from cultural sociology - such as cultural capital, habitus and symbolic boundaries - have been used in the study of international migration, with a focus on cultural and economic inequalities among mobi…

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Social mobilities and cultural inequalities 1:03:40

4y ago1:03:40

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Why do cultural producers discriminate when they think they are open to novelty? Why is it so difficult for people of colour or lower class people to enter the cultural industries? And how can we study such processes of exclusion in the cultural industry when people are not aware of them and so adamantly reject that they discriminate? Dr Dave O'Bri…

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Cultural boundaries: Snob to omnivore to …?? New modes of cultural distinction 50:20

4y ago50:20

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On this episode Drs Laurie Hanquinet and Dave O’Brien discuss the sociology of cultural consumption. Cultural consumption matters in lots of different ways, from telling us about the value and meaning of cultural objects, through how people get access to jobs and professions, to underpinning power and inequality across entire societies! We discuss …

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Growing inequalities, shifting cultural boundaries 2: cultural production 37:50

4y ago37:50

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What happens when the boundaries of what counts as art shift in American museums such as the Met? And how do elites maintain power in the process of opening up the arts? Is Rockefeller a villain or a hero in this story? And what do we gain from looking at art to study the dynamics of culture and power? In this episode, Phillipa Chong, assistant pro…

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Culture, inequality, boundaries. Theoretical traditions and core texts 1:09:51

4y ago1:09:51

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In this first pilot episode, we discuss the core themes of the course: how do culture and inequality relate? This meeting will discuss why and how this has become such a central theme in sociology and other disciplines (notably cultural studies, anthropology), how this relation this been theorized in various theoretical traditions (notable field th…

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Growing inequalities, shifting cultural boundaries 1: cultural consumption 1:11:58

4y ago1:11:58

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In this episode, we go beyond the earlier classic approaches and discuss culture and inequality in the present age. How has cultural distinction changed in an era of globalization, democratization, and digitalization? Is the notion of cultural capital still relevant in a time when professors do karaoke rather than going to the opera? We dive into t…

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Seeing Others: Michèle Lamont on The Power of Recognition in a Divided World 1:03:11

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Reprise: Culture, inequality, boundaries. Theoretical traditions and core texts 1:11:58

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Conspiracy theories, social justice & inequality 1:03:30

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Migration special 3: Media and Migration 1:02:12

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Migration special 2: Football, Race and Racism 58:42

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Music, Social Media and Migration 56:34

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Culture in Times of War I: Humour and jokes in war 1:02:45

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Race in practice 1:02:23

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Special episode: Hartmut Rosa, resonance and the sociology of the good life 51:48

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Gender, bodies, and elites 48:36

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Hiring, matching, elites, and the bank of mum and dad: culture, inequality, and social mobility 45:41

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Parasite: culture and inequality in a Korean yet global film 49:12

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Semester epilogue: where do we go from here? 54:40

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Cultural beliefs about inequality: meritocracy, egalitarianism and inequality 1:16:56

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Going beyond the Euro-American culture bubble 1:16:57

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Food and Health Inequalities 1:12:32

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Elite cultures in St Barths, Milan social clubs and 'the VIP' 1:08:20

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Evaluative judgements: fields, value and time 1:05:40

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Classed bodies: Weight, appearance and class distinction 1:09:40

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Race, ethnicity and gender in popular music 56:42

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Culture and inequality in intra-European migrations 1:05:42

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Social mobilities and cultural inequalities 1:03:40

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Cultural boundaries: Snob to omnivore to …?? New modes of cultural distinction 50:20

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Growing inequalities, shifting cultural boundaries 2: cultural production 37:50

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Culture, inequality, boundaries. Theoretical traditions and core texts 1:09:51

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Growing inequalities, shifting cultural boundaries 1: cultural consumption 1:11:58

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