Uncommon Sense

About Uncommon Sense

Our world, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review Foundation. The podcast that casts a sociological lens on our lives, our world, our crises. Each month, we sit down with an expert guest and grab hold of a commonplace notion – Anxiety! Privilege! Burnout! Fat! – and flip it around to see it differently, more critically, more sociologically. A jargon-free space, led by hosts Rosie Hancock and Alexis Hieu Truong, to question tropes and assumptions – and to imagine better ways of living together. Because sociology is for everybody – and you certainly don’t have to be a sociologist to think like one! Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense (http://donorbox.org/uncommon-sense)

Publisher

The Sociological Review Foundation

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Mar 2022

Latest episode

25 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

54 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Confidence & Vulnerability, with Shani Orgad

   Ever attempted a "power pose" or been advised to "make yourself vulnerable"? Feminist scholar Shani Orgad joins us to talk about confidence, vulnerability and the gendered nature - and consequences - of the imperatives to perform and embody both. Discussing her landmark book 'Confidence Culture', co-authored with Rosalind Gill, Shani also reflects on her more recent work on 'Posting Vulnerability on Linkedin' - a platform broadly known as a place for self-branding, work-seeking and the ...

2. 

   24 Jul 2026

   Therapy Speak, with Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas

   In Buenos Aires, psychoanalysis has “left the clinic”. Far from being for the elite alone, its core concepts and ideas abound in TV shows, the analyses offered by taxi drivers schooled in Lacan, and in intimate conversations among peers. Here Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas tells us about her brilliant study of what she calls “psychoanalytic listening” in the Argentine capital, where friends confidently say things to each other that often imply “when you say X, I hear Y”. Reflecting how such words ac...

3. 

   26 Jun 2026

   Fanon, with Julian Go

   Frantz Fanon, the radical psychiatrist and anti-colonial philosopher, was not a sociologist but has shaped so much critical sociological thought. Julian Go, Professor of Sociology, joins us to reflect on the life, work and significance of one the twentieth century’s most important - and at times misunderstood - thinkers, who was born a French citizen in Martinique, went on to fight for France in WWII, and then against it in Algeria’s struggle for independence. Julian tells us about encounteri...

Who has been a guest on Uncommon Sense

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Aaron Winter
• Volodymyr Ishchenko
• Claire Alexander
• Dan McCulloch
• Belinda Scarlett

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

83,345

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

46 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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

Quality

45

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

85

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