The Social Eye Podcast

On imagining the impossible with Dr. Arthur Scarritt

Listen along as we chat with Michelle’s first academic mentor, Dr. Arthur Scarritt, about his research and publications, modern sociopolitical dynamics, and imagining the impossible. "Koch Brothers Exposed" documentary link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8y2SVerW8 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8y2SVerW8] Link to Scarritt et al.'s 2025 "Why Conservatives Embrace Social Democracy": https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042251318674 [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042251318674]

On community-engaged research and racial capitalism with Dr. Yasi Shaker

In this episode, Wynn, Winona, and Michelle speak with Dr. Yasi Shaker about their community-engaged dissertation research on practical processes that combat racial capitalism. See also: what brings us hope among the current catastrophe, healing injustices in our socioecological communities, and turning sociological concepts into tattoos. Find Dr. Shaker's work here: https://yasishaker.com/ [https://yasishaker.com/] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iIao3JMAAAAJ&hl=en [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iIao3JMAAAAJ&hl=en] https://mobilemooncoop.org/ [https://mobilemooncoop.org/] https://www.undertheumbrellabookstore.com/product/oracle-deck-garden-comrades-yasi-shaker/12650 [https://www.undertheumbrellabookstore.com/product/oracle-deck-garden-comrades-yasi-shaker/12650]

On Activism & Shared Humanity with Judi Hill

In this episode, we chat with Akron NAACP chapter President Judi Hill about her education and activist work in and around Akron, OH as well as our shared humanity. Akron NAACP: https://www.naacpakron.org/ [https://www.naacpakron.org/]

Ep. 3: On Male Supremacist Online Spaces with Dr. Rina James

Wynn, Winona, and Michelle talk with Rina James, who since this episode completed their PhD in Sociology at University of Arizona! Rina explores gender, digital culture, and far-right politics, as their dissertation maps user trajectories across male supremacist communities on Reddit, identifying individual, community, and platform-level factors that drive differential participation and radicalization in far-right extremist movements.

Ep. 2: On Community

Welcome to the “The Social Eye Pod” where sociologists Winona, Wynn, Michelle, and Iris talk with guests about the complex relationships between the personal and the political. Using sociology to explore big ideas. Exploring the taken for granted in everyday life. Breaking down the complexity of institutionalized issues and inequality through lived experiences. In this episode, we discuss the sociology of community, inspired by Miranda Joseph's 2002 book Against The Romance Of Community, which you can find here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816637966/against-the-romance-of-community/ [https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816637966/against-the-romance-of-community/] Join us monthly for a new conversation. #community #socialeyepod #complexconversations #authenticconnection #decommodifyrelationships