The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

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 of the podcast recently published in Teaching Sociology describes the podcast as 'stimulating sociological imaginations in and beyond sociology classrooms'. www.sociologypodcast.com

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The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Episodes (40)

Dec 14, 2025 Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life
Sep 30, 2025 The Gaza Genocide in Five Crises (ft. Ernesto Verdeja) - Gaza, Genocide, & Social Theory (2 of 2)
Sep 16, 2025 Bradley Campbell’s Genocide as Social Control - Gaza, Genocide, & Social Theory (1 of 2)

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Dec 14, 2025
41 minutes
28 MB

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 many urban dwellers. Unpacking this text leads Eric and Louis to talk about the Will Ferrell classic Christmas film, Elf and what it mea...

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

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