The Sociology of Everything Podcast

About The Sociology of Everything Podcast

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 are sociologists at the newly created Adelaide University. A review recently published in Teaching Sociology describes the podcast as 'a model for public sociology in the podcast era'. www.sociologypodcast.com Become a supporter of the podcast at https://buymeacoffee.com/sociologyofeverything

Publisher

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

Category

comedy · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Feb 2022

Latest episode

22 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Jun 2026

   Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics

   In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss launch season 5 of their podcast by examining a trailblazing feminist text in classical sociology, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics. By centring gender in her social analysis, Gilman not only observes but critiques how women are forced to be economically dependent on men, on account of their largely being confined to the domestic sphere at least during the time of her writing. In the course of providing a condensed summary and appraisa...

2. 

   14 Dec 2025

   Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life

   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...

3. 

   30 Sept 2025

   The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises (ft. Ernesto Verdeja) - Gaza, Genocide, & Social Theory (2 of 2)

   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...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

33 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

255 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

26

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

98

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