The Sociological Review Foundation

Uncommon Sense

Society EN ↓ 52 episodes

Our world, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review Foundation. The podcast that casts a sociological lens on our lives, our world, our crises. Each month, we sit down with an expert guest and grab hold of a commonplace notion – Anxiety! Privilege! Burnout! Fat! – and flip it around to see it differently, more critically, more sociologically. A jargon-free space, led by hosts Rosie Hancock and Alexis Hieu Truong, to question tropes and assumptions – and to imagine better ways of living together. Because sociology is for everybody – and you certainly don’t hav...

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Care, with Bev Skeggs 22.04.2022 43:20

What does care really mean? For feminist sociologist Bev Skeggs, it should be at the heart of how we organise our society – from tax to health, to climate action. She talks to Alexis and Rosie about the costs of complacency, her own shocking experience of care (or lack of it) as her own parents faced the end of life, and why we have every right to expect the state to look after us. Care, she shows...

Introducing Uncommon Sense 24.03.2022 1:30

This is Uncommon Sense , the podcast that sees our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review , it’s a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about society – for imagining better ways of living together and confronting our shared crises. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, featuring a different guest each month,...