Department of Sociology Podcasts
Education Podcasts
Podcasts from The Department of Sociology. Sociology in Oxford is concerned with real-world issues with policy relevance, such as social inequality, organised crime, the social basis of political conflict and mobilization, and changes in family relationships and gender roles. Our research is empirical, analytical, and comparative in nature, reaching far beyond British society, to encompass systematic cross-national comparison as well as the detailed study of Asian, European, Latin American and North American societies.
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Podcasts from The Department of Sociology. Sociology in Oxford is concerned with real-world issues with policy relevance, such as social inequality, organised crime, the social basis of political conflict and mobilization, and changes in family relationships and gender roles. Our research is empirical, analytical, and comparative in nature, reaching far beyond British society, to encompass systematic cross-national comparison as well as the detailed study of Asian, European, Latin American and North American societies.
Language:
English
Episodes
Cees van der Eijk on “Contextualising Research Methods
6/4/2015
Cees van der Eijk gives a talk for the Sociology seminar series. Cees van der Eijk discusses teaching quantitative methods, focussing on the need in successful methods teaching to locate methods topics in (a) the context of substantive research questions and examples, but also (b) the context of a ‘repertoire’ of methodological tools and approaches, and (c) the context of alternative ways of structuring data.
Duration:01:01:09
Chris Zorn on ’Big Data' in the Social Sciences
6/4/2015
Chris Zorn discusses teaching quantitative methods focussing on (a) integrating contemporary data science approaches into undergraduate instruction, and (b) using "big data" examples to generate and maintain students' interest.
Duration:01:06:18
John Fox on R software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students
7/28/2014
John Fox discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially focusing on the choice of software with a demonstration of R and R Commander.
Duration:01:18:01
Robert Johns on SPSS and Stata software for teaching quantitative methods to social science students
7/28/2014
Robert Johns (Essex University) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, focusing on comparing the use of SPSS and Stata.
Duration:00:51:11
Wendy Olsen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
1/28/2014
Wendy Olsen discusses her experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially those in Sociology and Social Policy.
Duration:00:58:38
Robert Andersen on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
1/28/2014
Robert Andersen discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially those in Sociology and Social Policy.
Duration:01:00:40
Sean Carey on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
11/18/2013
Sean Carey (University of Mannheim, Germany) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students.
Duration:01:31:39
Andrew Gelman on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
11/18/2013
Andrew Gelman (Columbia University, NYC) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students.
Duration:00:58:09
Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off?
10/21/2013
Intergenerational relationships: Does grandparental childcare pay off?
Duration:00:53:41
Andy Field on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
9/9/2013
Andy Field (University of Sussex) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students.
Duration:00:57:59
Anti-politics in action: Do European protesters hate formal politics more than the general public?
8/28/2013
Dr Clare Saunders (University of Exeter) presents her multi-staged surveys on European protests.
Duration:01:17:56
The Endtimes of Human Rights
8/28/2013
Are we coming to an end of the human rights as a social science issue? Talk by Dr Stephen Hopgood (SOAS).
Duration:01:19:41
Manfred te Grotenhuis on teaching quantitative methods to social science students
8/27/2013
Manfred te Grotenhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen) discusses his experiences and views of what works well when teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students, especially with mixed ability and low motivation students.
Duration:00:43:19
Updating what we know about intergenerational time and money transfers in the U.S.
5/17/2013
Prof. Bianchi (UCLA) presents a new survey component of American Time Use Data (ATUS) that investigates intergenerational time and money transfers.
Duration:01:16:57
Identifying age, period and cohort effects: Are the new methods really better?
5/17/2013
Prof. Voas (University of Essex) presents new quantitative methods to analyse secularisation - religiosity.
Duration:01:09:43
Is there 'White Flight?' in England? Why Whites in Homogeneous English Wards Are More Opposed to Immigration
5/17/2013
Prof. Kaufmann (Birbeck College) investigates whether Whites in homogeneous English neighbourhoods oppose immigration more.
Duration:01:05:38
Solving the Mona Lisa Smile, and Other Developments in Micro-empirical sociology
4/15/2013
Seminar on what micro-sociology could tell us about predicting violence. Can micro-sociology give us clues to predict when a protest will become violent?
Duration:01:05:23
A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (Astor Visiting Lecture)
3/13/2013
Are humans inherently selfish? Is there really an essential human nature? How do we contend about the selfish gene in this day and age? What do we make of altruism against the selfish gene? With Professor Sam Bowles (Arthur Speigel Research Professor).
Duration:01:31:12
Changing Relationships: The Role of Cohabitation
3/13/2013
A study on how cohabitation affects marriage and re-marriage patterns in the UK. With Dr. Tiziano Nazio (University of Turin).
Duration:01:10:11
Issue Attention and Demobilization: How Social Movements shape the Policy Agenda when Issues are in Decline
3/13/2013
Looking at how social movements shape the policy making agenda in the US when the issues the social movements are arguing for are in decline in the main policy making agenda.
Duration:01:16:09