Comments for Give Theory A Chance https://thesocietypages.org/theory A podcast devoted to the foundational ideas that inspire thought and action. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Comment on Neil Gong on Norbert Elias by Baldi’s Basics Plus https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/12/08/neil-gong-on-norbert-elias/#comment-764 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:15:14 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=190#comment-764 Good one

]]> Comment on Daniel Chambliss shares lessons from the Mundanity of Excellence by Dr. Earl Smith https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/07/23/daniel-chambliss-shares-lessons-from-the-mundanity-of-excellence/#comment-757 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:46:42 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=418#comment-757 WOW! Nice to hear this.

one of the best papers I ever read. It helped shape what became my book Race, Sport & American Dream.

]]> Comment on Seth Abrutyn reads Daniel Chambliss by escape road https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/06/20/seth-abrutyn-reads-daniel-chambliss/#comment-685 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:01:24 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=411#comment-685 Thank you for sharing a very useful perspective. I really learned a lot from this article.

]]> Comment on Neil McLaughlin on Erich Fromm by elongrimer https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/01/16/neil-mclaughlin-on-erich-fromm/#comment-677 Mon, 26 May 2025 08:36:23 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=392#comment-677 Neil reflects on the value of Fromm’s work in this current political moment as well as the lessons sociologists can learn about the possibilities and pitfalls of communicating to the larger public smashy road free.

]]> Comment on Daniel Silver on Talcott Parsons by smashy road https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/03/21/daniel-silver-on-talcott-parsons/#comment-676 Mon, 26 May 2025 08:35:39 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=406#comment-676 We also discuss the central place Parsons occupied in the discipline, his rather strange and rapid fall from grace, and how this frees the reader to engage with his ideas and arguments.

]]> Comment on Andrew McCumber reads Raymond Williams by elongrimer https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2022/08/25/andrew-mccumber-reads-raymond-williams/#comment-675 Mon, 26 May 2025 08:34:06 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=297#comment-675 Andy also discusses the influence of the essay on his dissertation research and current book project titled “The Pest We All Live With: The Cultural Meanings of the Life and Death of Rats smashy road free.”

]]> Comment on Andrew McCumber reads Raymond Williams by smashy road https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2022/08/25/andrew-mccumber-reads-raymond-williams/#comment-674 Mon, 26 May 2025 08:33:42 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=297#comment-674 Andy also discusses the influence of the essay on his dissertation research and current book project titled “The Pest We All Live With: The Cultural Meanings of the Life and Death of Rats.”

]]> Comment on Neil McLaughlin on Erich Fromm by Ryan hughjack https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/01/16/neil-mclaughlin-on-erich-fromm/#comment-668 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:06:43 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=392#comment-668 Fascinating discussion! traffic road

]]> Comment on Neil McLaughlin on Erich Fromm by traffic road https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/01/16/neil-mclaughlin-on-erich-fromm/#comment-667 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:06:13 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=392#comment-667 Fascinating discussion!

]]> Comment on Neil McLaughlin on Erich Fromm by Peter https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/01/16/neil-mclaughlin-on-erich-fromm/#comment-654 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:44:29 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=392#comment-654 Great Work Guys!!!

]]> Comment on Neil McLaughlin on Erich Fromm by Fredrick Fisher https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/01/16/neil-mclaughlin-on-erich-fromm/#comment-653 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:37:01 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=392#comment-653 great

]]> Comment on Andrea S. Boyles reads Patricia Hill Collins by hector01 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2024/09/12/381/#comment-648 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:02:44 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=381#comment-648 Dr. Andrea S. Boyles brilliantly connects Patricia Hill Collins’ *Black Feminist Thought* with her activism and scholarship, sparking an ideadashof critical insights into empowerment, consciousness, and transformative sociological perspectives.

]]> Comment on Mary Peterson reads Iris Marion Young by Spence Nicholas https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2024/08/07/mary-peterson-reads-iris-marion-young/#comment-645 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:12:58 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=352#comment-645 This is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of philosophy, geometry dash feminism, and lived experience

]]> Comment on Neil Gong on Norbert Elias by Harry Lu https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/12/08/neil-gong-on-norbert-elias/#comment-638 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:50:32 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=190#comment-638 Thank you very much for the excellent information you provide. I hope you will continue to provide everyone with as many fantastic blogs as possible in the future.
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]]> Comment on Ugo Corte on Gary Alan Fine by Jane Lancy https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2024/03/13/ugo-corte-on-gary-alan-fine/#comment-514 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 02:49:47 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=344#comment-514 Very great! i like it so much
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]]> Comment on Amanda McMillan Lequieu reads Kai Erikson by Jasica Rose https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2022/08/25/amanda-mcmillan-lequieu-on-kai-erikson/#comment-420 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:30:29 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=300#comment-420 wow like

]]> Comment on Kelly Underman reads Lauren Berlant by Shaun James https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2023/06/15/kelly-underman-reads-lauren-berlant/#comment-417 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:18:36 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=319#comment-417 hy

]]> Comment on Hannah McCann and Whitney Monaghan on Queer Theory by Cindy Hanson https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/07/09/hannah-mccann-and-whitney-monaghan-on-queer-theory/#comment-414 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 23:51:26 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=140#comment-414 I would also love a transcript of this as I’m using it for a class assignment. Having audio and written is helpful for all students.

]]> Comment on Hannah McCann and Whitney Monaghan on Queer Theory by Lauren Howe https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/07/09/hannah-mccann-and-whitney-monaghan-on-queer-theory/#comment-337 Fri, 06 May 2022 05:06:40 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=140#comment-337 i hope you got the transcript

]]> Comment on Christopher Matthews reads Nick Crossley by Ken https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2021/11/01/christopher-matthews-reads-nick-crossley/#comment-303 Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:55:36 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=284#comment-303 I thoroughly enjoyed both companion podcasts with Christopher Matthews. Conversations like these help me reconnect with my deep love of education. I have scarcely been happier than when I was in college, continuously challenged intellectually and always learning. I am moved somehow by discussions like these and am left with a longing to revivify my own intellectual life. Intersubjectivity, liminality, interactionism- are like courses in a favorite meal not eaten for far too long. I think my mind is hungry. Thank you both.

]]> Comment on Angela Jones on W.E.B. Du Bois by Amina Leotina https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/06/20/angela-jones-on-w-e-b-du-bois/#comment-283 Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:19:58 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=147#comment-283 In this episode, sociology is a course that makes me know other’s ideas. That is why Race is a group within the human species that are identified by society as presumably having certain biologically inherited physical characteristics that are the concept of race. And we all live in the world but social is very important that this why I decided to become a social worker in order to know more.

]]> Comment on Angela Jones on W.E.B. Du Bois by Amina Leotina https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/06/20/angela-jones-on-w-e-b-du-bois/#comment-282 Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:18:06 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=147#comment-282 In this episode, sociology is a course that makes me know each other’s ideas. That is why Race is a group within the human species that are identified by society as presumably having certain biologically inherited physical characteristics that are the concept of race. And we all live in the world but social is very important that this why I decided to become a social worker in order to know more.

]]> Comment on Shai Dromi reads Luc Boltanski by Jim Conley https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2021/01/06/shai-dromi-reads-luc-boltanski/#comment-172 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:45:03 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=195#comment-172 Shai Dromi’s two podcasts are a good primer on Luc Boltanski’s work. But it’s too bad that Thévenot’s role is downplayed (especially by the host), and the whole network of people doing French pragmatic sociology is not even mentioned. Dromi’s 2010 article with Eve Illouz, “Recovering morality: pragmatic sociology and literary studies” (New Literary History 41, 2: 351-369) is a useful supplement.
Also in this podcast, when Shai Dromi refers to Boltanski’s “On denunciation” he says that he studied “thousands” of letters to the editor of Le Monde. Actually it was 275 letters, and they were to what might be called the investigative journalism department of Le Monde. (Pardon my pedantry.)

]]> Comment on Anna Hickey-Moody on Gilles Deleuze by Mary https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/03/26/anna-hickey-moody-on-gilles-deleuze/#comment-126 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:32:43 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=73#comment-126 Thanks for sharing this conversation with Anna Hickey Moody. I know that she has been working with a young generation having an aim to make them inspired, motivated in education, art, and their contribution to society. She got many appreciations on her conducted research about youth education. She observed their way of spending time, way of speaking even their writing style. Because writing style is something, by which an individual can express his/her interior thoughts in a formative and structural way. For more writing tips and guidelines, you could check this out, even they have some assignment writing sample ideas for understanding more better about it. Thanks again for sharing her inspirations.

]]> Comment on Anna Hickey-Moody on Gilles Deleuze by Larsen https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/03/26/anna-hickey-moody-on-gilles-deleuze/#comment-125 Sun, 27 Dec 2020 12:24:18 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=73#comment-125 Thanks for sharing this conversation with Anna Hickey Moody. I know that she has been working with a young generation having an aim to make them inspired, motivated in education, art, and their contribution to society. She got many appreciations on her conducted research about youth education. She observed their way of spending time, way of speaking even their writing style. Because writing style is something, by which an individual can express his/her interior thoughts in a formative and structural way. For more writing tips and guidelines, you could check this out, even they have some assignment writing sample ideas for understanding more better about it. Thanks again for sharing her inspirations.

]]> Comment on Saida Grundy on W.E.B. Du Bois by Rev. Dr. Richarde Donelan https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/07/14/saida-grundy-on-w-e-b-du-bois/#comment-26 Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:27:13 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=162#comment-26 In every sense of the familiar words “invite”
and “challenge” this Sister’s ideas and insights about learning, knowing more, and acting responsibly to impact social interactions among humans in America and in the world, unequivocally does both. For me, Du Bois lays a foundation for developing personal applications to navigate how I see and then act in the phenomenon that is American and create attempts to living a “full” existence as a human of African descent. Love the historical context this interview uncovers and highlights. Thank you Dr. Grundy and Mr. Green

]]> Comment on Hannah McCann and Whitney Monaghan on Queer Theory by Vivian V https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/07/09/hannah-mccann-and-whitney-monaghan-on-queer-theory/#comment-10 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 02:05:56 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=140#comment-10 I would love to use this in my online course, but without a transcript I cannot as any audio MUST have a written transcript for the hearing impaired (which includes me). I would appreciate if you could address this equity issue, TIA.

]]> Comment on Seth Abrutyn on Social Distance, Grief, and COVID-19 by Beth Heberger https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/05/01/seth-abrutyn-on-social-distance-grief-and-covid-19/#comment-3 Thu, 07 May 2020 23:59:46 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=112#comment-3 This episode was extremely relevant to me! It brought into focus some things I hadn’t thought about before. I have been quarantining with my family for upwards for 6 weeks. Hearing Abrutyn talk about mental health related to circumstances in the home made me think that I’m probably not the only one feeling some sort of way, and that it’s okay to feel a variety of emotions. Super relatable episode!

]]> Comment on Seth Abrutyn on Émile Durkheim by The Pedagogical Dead-End Known as “Classical” Sociological Theory | Seth Abrutyn, PhD https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/01/02/seth-abrutyn-on-emile-durkheim/#comment-2 Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:35:34 +0000 https://thesocietypages.org/theory/?p=26#comment-2 […] this elsewhere, recently tweeted a thread, and recently recorded two different podcasts (here and here) about this issue in two different ways. It seems intractable, to be honest, as one side seems […]

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