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Welcome to this Context podcast.

I'm Madison Austin, Publications Associate at the American Sociological Association.

Today, I'm speaking with Jim Messerschmidt, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Southern Maine.

Jim, along with his co-author, Tristan Bridges of UC Santa Barbara, recently published an article in Context entitled, President Trump's Masculine Memes.

Welcome to this Teaching Sociology podcast.

I'm Madison Austin, Publications Associate at the American Sociological Association.

I am speaking with Tamana M. Shaw of Ohio University.

Tamana recently published an article in Teaching Sociology entitled Artificial Intelligence and the Sociological Imagination, Cultivating Reflexive Algorithmic Capital Through Sociology Pedagogy.

We wrote a paper in 1997.

Well, that's when it was presented at the American Sociological Association, but for one reason or another, it never got published, in which we argued that, in fact, you can treat these so-called fixed effects as random effects.

If you did it in a structural equation modeling framework, you could actually allow that random component to be correlated with the measured predictors.

I love that you brought that up because I could imagine this being parameterizable within a structural equation modeling framework, which would give you, A, a whole lot more flexibility in general.

Anthropologist George Dorsey, working for the Chicago Tribune in 1910, concluded that Italians were, again I quote, "...of questionable value from a mental, moral, or physical standpoint." Which, I've heard that about me, and, well, in my case I may agree, but as a general stereotype of all Italians, that seemed a little much.

"...of questionable value from a mental, moral, or physical standpoint." Come on, mental and moral I buy it if I think about me, but physical? I'm a glorious physical specimen, what are they talking about? In 1914, Edward Ross, president of the American Sociological Association and professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, argued Italians were addicted to gambling, had never done an honest day of work in their lives, and born criminals.

In an Harvard economics professor, Robert Forster, in 1919, concluded that Italians valued leisure over work.

Oh, the horror.

It's not a popular opinion, and his reputation suffers.

There's even an effort to expel him from the American Sociological Association.

The genie is out of the bottle.

Coleman couldn't control the narrative swirling around his data or around him.

Um, anything else public-facing that's coming up, uh, for you? The book tour, what- whatever's going on there, um, talks, conferences, um, that you may be, uh, presenting at, a- and then anything I missed while we have you today please.

Um, well, I just gave a couple presentations at the American Sociological Association, which is my home discipline.

That was in New York in August, giving a couple of talks there.

Um, I have a book event coming up in my hometown here, Boulder, just outside of Denver, um, where I'm gonna be in conversation with another author about the book, um, and just doing a lot of different media events and doing some public writing and putting tentacles out there as much as I can.

[on-hold music] Welcome to this American Sociological Review podcast.

I'm Madison Austin, Publications Associate at the American Sociological Association.

Today, I am speaking with Brent Simpson, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of South Carolina.

Brent and his co-authors are part of the Global Social Norms Network, and together published an article in American Sociological Review entitled "How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in Ninety Societies." Thank you so much for joining me today, Brent.

Welcome to this Journal of Health and Social Behavior podcast.

I'm Madison Austin, publications associate at the American Sociological Association.

Today, I'm speaking with Courtney E. Bowen, associate professor of sociology at Brown University, and Elise M. Parrish, PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Courtney and Elise recently published an article in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior entitled State Politics and Policies and Racialized Disability Patterns Among Midlife Adults in the United States, 2008 through 2019.