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Welcome to the blog for the Social Science Bites podcast: a series of interviews with leading Social Scientists. Each episode explores an aspect of our social world. You can access all audio and the transcripts from each interview here. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @socialscibites to keep up to date on the latest activities.

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Michael Billig on the Royal Family and Nationalism

By Social Science Bites | Published: September 1, 2016

In his conversation with interviewer David Edmonds, Michael Billig -- the author of landmark book 'Banal Nationalism,' dives deeply into one particular example of nationalism, the British royal family, and what the British themselves think...

Mirca Madianou on Technology and Everyday Life

By Social Science Bites | Published: June 15, 2016

It's often remarked that technology has made the world a smaller place. While this has been especially true for those with the wherewithal to buy the latest gadget and to travel at will, but it's also...

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Iris Bohnet on Discrimination and Design

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 10, 2016

"As a behavioral scientist," Iris Bohnet tells David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast looking at implicit bias, "I strongly believe that we now do have the insights and the tools to help us...

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Michael Burawoy on Sociology and the Workplace

By Social Science Bites | Published: April 4, 2016

Michael Burawoy is a practitioner of what we might call 'extreme ethnography.' In this Social Science Bites podcast, Burawoy tells interviewer Dave Edmonds about his various experiences on factory floors, and some of the specific lessons...

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Stephen Reicher on Crowd Psychology

By Social Science Bites | Published: February 26, 2016

“In a sense, you could summarize the literature: ‘Groups are bad for you, groups take moral individuals and they turn them into immoral idiots.’ I have been trying to contest that notion,” social psychologist Stephen...

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Janet Carsten on the Kinship of Anthropology

By Social Science Bites | Published: January 13, 2016

One of the leading exponents of what might be called the second coming of kinship studies, Janet Carsten, a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, has (literally) brought new blood...

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Ted Cantle on Segregation

By Social Science Bites | Published: November 16, 2015

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Ted Cantle (of the post-2001 riot report that bears his name) explains how the concept of 'parallel lives' continues to exert a malign influence wherever communities find themselves segregated...

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William Davies on the Happiness Industry

By Social Science Bites | Published: September 28, 2015

'I think that happiness is better than a lot of what the ‘happiness industry’ represents it as,' Goldsmiths sociologist Will Davies tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast.

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Sheldon Solomon on Fear of Death

By Social Science Bites | Published: July 30, 2015

Social psychologist Sheldon Solomon routinely thinks about the unthinkable, studying how humans behave differently when the unthinkable forces its way into their thoughts. In this Social Science Bites podcast, he explains how the fear of...

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Steven Lukes on Durkheim

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 19, 2015

In this Social Science Bites podcast, social theorist Steven Lukes tells interviewer Nigel Warburton how Émile Durkheim's exploration of issues like labor, suicide and religion proved intriguing to a young academic and enduring for an established...

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John Brewer on C. Wright Mills

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 24, 2015

C. Wright Mills was one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century. He believed that sociology could change people’s lives, and that sociologists, far from being neutral, should help bring about such change,...

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Peter Lunt on Erving Goffman

By Social Science Bites | Published: February 25, 2015

Erving Goffman has been called the most influential American sociologist of the 20th century thanks to his study of the social interactions of everyday life. In this Social Science Bites podcast, social psychologist Peter Lunt...

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