Snakegrrl Sociology

<p>Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson overviews the book entitled, “Lean Semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequality,” by Sekile M. Nzinga. This book centers the experience of Black women who are graduate students, MA...

<p>This talk is called, “Centering Multiplicity and Intersectionality of Asian American Identities,” and it was presented to the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Center at San Diego State University, on...

<p>Sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson overviews the book, “Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement,” written by Ashley Shew (2023). In this short book of essays, Dr. Shew brings together her...

<p>I overview Margaret Chin’s book Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder, published by NYU Press in 2020. This book applies the concept of the bamboo ceiling to an ethnographic study of...

<p>Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson provides an overview of the book entitled, “The Meaning of Multiraciality: A Racially Queer Exploration of Multiracial College Students’ Identity Production,” written by Aurora Chang (2022)...

<p>In the first part, Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson talks about the process of applying for a full-time academic teaching job at an institution of higher education. This video contextualizes the process within a tight...

<p>Sociology Professor Beverly Yuen Thompson overviews the book, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at any Cost, by Caitlin Zaloom in 2019. This is an ethnographic study based on interviews with 160 participants...

<p>In this episode, sociology professors Akello Stone and Beverly Yuen Thompson provide an in-depth overview of the anthology called, “The Sociology of Housing,” edited by Brian J. McCabe & Eva Rosen (2023). This...

<p>I recently traveled to six countries in SE Asia and as I am a sociology professor, I took this opportunity to read or collect about fifteen books on the sociological and historical aspects of the region. This video...

<p>I overview the main points of the Yale Committee’s Report “On Trust in Higher Education,” based on one year of research, and published on April 10, 2026. The committee worked for the Yale president and conducted...

<p>We discuss Dr. Bruce Jackson’s book, “The Life and Death of Buffalo’s Great Northern Grain Elevator 1897-2023” published in 2024. Jackson is a professor of English at The University of University at Buffalo and has...

<p>I am Beverly Yuen Thompson, a sociology professor interested in cities and city development. My partner Morgan Craig is a PhD candidate and visual artist focused on the built environment in a post-industrial society...

<p>How Democracies Die (2018), written by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, is overviewed by sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson. This overview walks viewers through the book, chapter by chapter, and connecting...

<p>Edward Bernays wrote Propaganda in 1928, establishing his career as one of the first to develop the field of public relations and marketing by working with politicians and companies to sell their products or...