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The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

The Sociology of Everything Podcast offers listeners a (sometimes) comedic and accessible look at the wonders of sociology. It is created and hosted by Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss, who presently teach and do research in sociology at the University of South Australia (UniSA). A review of the podcast recently published in Teaching Sociology describes the podcast as "stimulating sociological imaginations in and beyond sociology classrooms". www.sociologypodcast.com

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40:47

Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life

The Sociology of Everything Podcast ·

2025/12/14

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss introduce listeners to a noteworthy work in early classical sociology that often gets oversimplified for what it argues and observes about a key aspect of the process of modernisation. Georg Simmel’s noted essay on The Metropolis and Mental Life, originally published in 1903, provides varied insights about what effect living in an urban/metropolitan environment has on individuals and their psychologies, which includes the blasé attitude exhibited by...

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52:06

The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises (ft. Ernesto...

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2025/09/30

In the second part of their series on Gaza, Genocide, and Social Theory, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss welcome Ernesto Verdeja onto their podcast to talk around an article Ernesto has written in the Journal of Genocide Research, titled ‘The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises’. In this wide-ranging discussion, Ernesto makes some very powerful points about why it is meaningful and apt to categorise the recent major loss of life in Gaza as a genocide, while also unpacking what the broader ramifications o...

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49:03

Bradley Campbell’s Genocide as Social Control - Gaza,...

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2025/09/16

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to social theory to try to make better sense of the tremendous loss of life in Gaza since October 2023. They appeal to an article written by Bradley Campbell, titled ‘Genocide and Social Control’, which was published in 2009 in Sociological Theory. If indeed developments in Gaza constitute a genocide, as bodies like the International Association of Genocide Scholars have asserted, then Campbell’s account of genocide is useful because it s...

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62:26

Donald MacKenzie & Judy Wajcman's Social Shaping of...

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2025/09/01

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss celebrate their podcast reaching a quarter million downloads by spotlighting a work that has significantly developed the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS): Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wajcman’s influential introductory chapter in their anthology on The Social Shaping of Technology, first published in 1985, and later updated in 1999. This text develops an oft cited critique of technological determinism, which posits that technology is an au...

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44:38

Illumonating Severance Through Classical Sociology

The Sociology of Everything Podcast ·

2025/06/24

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss take the elevator to the severed floor of where they work so that their innies can talk about the sociological aspects of a television show they both really like, Apple TV+'s Severance. Partly drawing from a chapter written by Palmer and Schueths in the edited volume, Reintegrating Severance, Eric and Louis explore how ideas found in classical sociology can be used to ‘illumonate’ aspects of what we see unfolding in the show's first two seasons. Eri...

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43:45

Peter Conrad's Medicalization of Society

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2025/06/03

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss spotlight the sociological concept of medicalization and Peter Conrad’s influential understanding of this idea, as captured in Conrad’s chapter in Medical Sociology on the Move. Eric and Louis’s coverage of Conrad’s account of medicalization perhaps unsurprisingly leads them to talk about some pretty weird topics. These include Tucker Carlson’s interest in testicle tanning, how Louis asks his GP friend to take his blood pressure until he gets the re...

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41:34

Raewyn Connell and James Messerschmidt's Rethinking...

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2025/05/12

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss launch the fourth season of their podcast by examining a concept that sociologists continue to engage with to produce insightful understandings of how social life is gendered. They use Connell and Messerschmidt's article in Gender & Society and an earlier piece by Connell in Teachers College Record to explore how the concept of hegemonic masculinity has been theorised, applied, critiqued, and refined in various sociological discussions. Louis do...

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24:05

Who speaks for the Earth? The Anthropocene and Sociology

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2025/01/13

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about the idea of the Anthropocene, a concept that was originally developed within the field of Geology. Despite it not being formally recognised as a defined geological period in 2024 by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the Anthropocene continues to feature in various discussions across different fields and sectors of society. But how might sociologists contribute to some of these conversations? Eva Lövbrand et al.'s ...

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43:45

Louis Everuss's Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders

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2024/12/19

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss shamelessly self-promote Louis’s monograph, Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders: How Digital Technologies Transform Migration and Sovereign Borders (2024), published by DeGruyter. They want listeners to know that there is a special 20% off discount code they can use, ‘DGBMOBILITIES’, if they want to purchase this work through the following link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110714050/html. (Aren’t Eric and Louis some of the mo...

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41:29

Arlie Hochschild's Sociology and Donald Trump

The Sociology of Everything Podcast ·

2024/10/16

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss mark their 10,000th follower on Spotify by giving the people what they want, which apparently means exploring a prominent sociological account of the (perplexing) appeal of Donald Trump. By focusing on an essay by the noted American sociologist, Arlie Hochschild, published in 2016 in Contemporary Sociology, they discuss how sociological analysis of emotions can shed new light on various aspects of Donald Trump as a cultural phenomenon. Eric and Loui...

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40:38

Ning Wang's Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism

The Sociology of Everything Podcast ·

2024/09/18

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss what it means to be 'authentic' in the context of tourism. By examining the work of Ning Wang, they consider how authenticity in tourism research can be conceptualised in a number of different ways. One of these ways leads Louis to recount a time Eric ruined a sightseeing excursion they once went on. Louis also explains in this episode why he enjoys watching Antiques Roadshow. Not to be outdone, Eric wonders aloud where people defecate when ...

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22:21

Anthony Giddens's Consequences of Modernity

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2024/09/04

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss do their best to have a reflexive discussion about a highly influential sociological account of the contemporary modern world: Anthony Giddens's idea of reflexive modernization, as captured in his work, The Consequences of Modernity. Eric somehow manages to use his bad Trump impression to promote the field of sociology, while Louis tries to keep the conversation more on track by ruminating on Giddens's point that modernity leaves us with more questi...

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23:09

Karl Marx's Alienated Labour

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2024/03/12

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41:15

The Social Model of Disability (ft. Caroline Ellison)

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2023/09/20

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31:09

Zygmunt Bauman's Wasted Lives

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2023/08/24

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28:31

Hartmut Rosa's Social Acceleration Theory

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2023/06/28

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39:39

Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory (ft....

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2023/06/07

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21:25

Justin Rosenberg's the Follies of Globalization Theory

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2023/05/17

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29:38

Ulrich Beck's Risk Society

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2023/05/03

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26:08

Louise Amoore's Biometric Borders

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2023/04/17

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