Snakegrrl Sociology

Sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson has researched and written a book and eight academic articles on the digital nomad lifestyle. In this video, she defines the digital nomad lifestyle and summarizes her top 10 critiques of the digital nomad lifestyle. These critiques are rooted in the academic field of critical tourism studies that provides a critical perspective on the industry of tourism with the objective of promoting hum...

In this video, author and researcher Dr. Melissa Lavin is interviewed about her ethnographic research on strip clubs. She is interviewed by sociology professors Beverly Yuen Thompson and Akello Stone. You can see my course write-up for move coverage of these articles listed below. https://deviantsociology.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/dr-melissa-lavin-on-sociology-of-strip-clubs/ReferencesLavin, Melissa F. (2016). She Got Herself There:...

Are you a sociology student or researcher interested in using interviewing and ethnographic methods to gather data about a social problem or phenomenon? This video is a step-by-step overview of the basic details about how to conduct interviews. I am a qualitative research who has published academic papers on a variety of subcultural topics for over twenty years, using this process as my primary methodology. I also talk about a clas...

In this episode, Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson overviews the book Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide, written by Christopher Caterine. This book provides a step-by-step guide of factors to consider for an audience comprised of early PhDs as well as PhD candidates, who may need to consider employment in the corporate sector. This book and video talks about the realities of the academic job market which only allows in 13% of PhDs into t...

Kevin Guyan is the author of Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action. In this video, sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson does a close read of the book and talks about the main points and how it can be useful for people thinking about data design for both qualitative and quantitative methods. This video is great for any level of sociology student, practitioner, or interested person; especially those thinkin...

In this interview, Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla shares her research and personal educational experience with colleague and friend Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson. Spanning a body of research on the Latinx educational pipeline, Dr. Revilla reflects on subjects such as the educational institution and elitism, inequality, student activism, immigrant and LGBTQ social movements, spirit murder, and loving mentorship.

video link

References

Revilla,...

Paulo Freire’s book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed is overviewed by Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson in this video. His four chapters focusing on the Oppressor-Oppressed social context; the banking model of education; “the word” of language and education; and praxis are the focuses of each of the four chapters in the book. Beverly assigns this book in her sociology courses in order to see what insights this theory can pr...

n this video, I overview the book “Tourism in Malaysia: An Empirical Study on Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts,” written by A.H.M. Zehadul Karim, et al., in 2016. This is an academic study about the impacts of tourism in Malaysia and includes a literature review on tourism studies, quantitative and qualitative data based on surveys, focus groups and interviews with residents and tourists. I provide a close readi...

In this overview of the book Black American Refugee, written by Tiffanie Drayton, I provide a close reading of the chapters of the book (spoiler alert). Tiffanie Drayton was born in Trinidad and Tobago but arrived to NYC as a small child, making her a 1.5 generation immigrant along with her brother. The live in New Jersey, Texas, Florida, and she lives in Hawaii for a stint as well, thus experiencing many different parts of the Uni...

In this episode, three teachers at three different levels of the educational institution discuss the sociological context of education in the U.S. and the profession of teaching. These three co-authors recently wrote an academic article on the topic of the teaching profession and this conversation reflects on the topics covered in the academic journal article. Morgan Craig is an art teacher in a Philadelphia public high school; Ake...

Co-hosts Akello Stone and Beverly Yuen Thompson interview Dustin Kiskaddon, author of the book Blood and Lightning: On Becoming a Tattooer. Published in 2024 by Stanford University Press, Dr. Kiskaddon takes us on his journey from tattoo apprentice to tattooer, via a sociological memoir journey through the main social concepts that arose during this professional development process. Using a sociological perspective on this unique w...

In this sociological conversation, two sociologists-- @AkelloStone and Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson-- as long-time instructors of Sociology of the Family Course, talk about the global changes in marriage, divorce and procreation trends. Globally, people are getting married later (if at all), having children later, and having fewer children. Divorce is also a frequent choice, with subsequent marriages ending in ever increasing percen...

Dr. Alyssa Grocutt recently graduated from Smith School of Business, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, with a PhD. She is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. Her PhD was in management, concentrating in organizational behavior. Her dissertation studied employees’ perceptions of tattooed coworkers and leaders. It also looks at how tattoo content plays a...

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 graduates, or PhD graduates, who are teaching as part time adjunct teachers in higher education. Yet even with, or indeed, because of, their graduate degrees, they are more indebted than ever because of thei...

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 April 17, 2024. I am an alum of SDSU, where I earned my MA in women’s studies. This talk reviewed my MA thesis topic that I researched during my time at SDSU, thus, it was an honor to speak to this group, ...

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 experiences as an academic researcher in the areas of technology, ethics, and embodiment to apply to the topic of disability from a critical perspective. As a disabled person herself, she reflects upon her own ex...

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 elite educated Asian Americans and their experiences climbing the corporate ladder and the various levels at which they find difficulty in being promoted to the next stage. Incorporating concepts such as the...

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). This book is a qualitative and ethnographic exploration of college students who identify as biracial or multiracial and how they conceive of their identity and the social context in which it is produc...