Interviews


2019

Quality and Inequality: Creating Value Worlds with Third Wave Coffee Edward (Ted) Fischer talks with us about his article "Quality and Inequality: Creating Value Worlds with Third Wave Coffee" in Socio-Economic Review Interview with Ching Kwan Lee Winner of the first annual Alice Amsden prize in economic sociology, for her book 'The Specter of Global China'. Interdisciplinarity, Law, and Global Capitalism at Northwestern University (USA): A Q&A with the Global Capitalism and Law Research Group SASE Newsletter Editor-in-Chief Agatha Slupek met with Professors Karen Alter and Cristina Lafont of Northwestern University when she attended the University of Chicago’s Workshop in International Politics for the first time. Follow-Up on Kyoto: Sitting Down with Professor Hiroyasu Uemura SASE is very pleased to feature an interview with Hiroyasu Uemura, Professor at the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan. Socio-Economics in the French Public Sphere: A Discussion with Professor Dominique Méda Dominique Méda is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Social Science Research Institute (IRISSO) at Paris-Dauphine University (France). Méda has authored numerous books on the changing role of labor and work in society, as well as on the role of the French welfare state model as it compares to other European welfare states. SASE Network Spotlight: Interview with Alya Guseva of Network N: Finance and Society The editorial team is delighted to publish an interview with Alya Guseva, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston University (USA) and one of the Network N: Finance and Society organizers. She is famous for her original cutting-edge research in economic sociology. Brexit…or not? Interviews with Jonathan Zeitlin Jonathan Zeitlin, former SASE president, has changed his mind. Why? Read the three (3) interviews. Teaching Socio-Economics: Challenges and Approaches The socio-economic perspective is flourishing not only in academic journals and at research conferences, but in the classroom as well. Yet as the socio-economic canon grows ever larger, managing to fit its many insights into just one semester or quarter can be a tricky endeavor. This is especially the case when plenty of students arrive […] Futures and Futurology An Interview with Professor Jenny Andersson Professor Jenny Andersson is a researcher at the Centre d’études et des recherches internationales at Sciences Po and Principal Investigator of the Futurepol Project. SASE had the chance to speak with her about her newest book, The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination. Interview with SASE President Akos Rona-Tas I grew up in Budapest and began college as a literature major interested in literary theory and philosophy, but I soon became drawn to sociology. At that time sociology was a young discipline in Hungary, as it had been banned for decades as a bourgeois pseudo-science by the Communist state.