interviews with leading social theorists
Valerio Bacak, currently of the Universtiy of Zagreb, will enter the Penn demography & sociology program this fall. He has done some neat interviews with leading social theorists:
- Gary Alan Fine on Ethnography
- Jeffrey Alexander on the strong program in cultural sociology
- Erik Olin Wright on Marxism
Recommended.
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I actually suggested this idea during ASA meeting, that we should have archives of sociologists speaking on any number of topics. It would be a great way to bridge generations and to capture elements of the field not otherwise obvious when merely reading our scholarship. Thanks for sharing these links.
nirowlan
May 30, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Daniel Little has been doing something similar over at Understanding Society. Includes Tilly, Zald, Tarrow, Steinmetz, among others.
Trey
May 31, 2010 at 12:33 am
Berkeley Sociology has a whole lot of mid-1980′s video interviews with faculty online: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/publicsociology/facultyvideos/oldseries/index.php . The audio quality is not always the best, but the collection of people is pretty fabulous: there are Hout, Wright, Duster, Hochschild, Lieberson, Fischer, Burawoy, Chodorow, Swidler, many others.
Andrei Boutyline
May 31, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Fabio, thanks for posting the interviews. Erik Wright actually just published a book on the ideas underlying his Real Utopias project that we discussed in the interview: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/ERU.htm. Outstanding stuff – Analytical Marxism at its best.
Valerio
May 31, 2010 at 7:55 pm