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Think Like a Sociologist
Reexamine the Life You Take for Granted
Completed · 41 episodes
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Leung Man-tao: What Do We Mean When We Talk About “Society”? Peng Kaiping: Life Can Feel Gray, but Sociology Is a Science That Makes It Vivid Liu Yu: Sociology Is the Opposite of Economics Hao Jingfang: The Story of Sociology Behind Folding Beijing Opening 1: Why Study Sociology? Opening 2: Beginning an Adventure in Sociology 01. The Origins of Sociology: Which Is More Powerful, Sociology or Physics? 02. Social Evolution: Can “Survival of the Fittest” Explain Human Society? 03. Alienated Labor: How Many Foxconn Workers' Tears Lie Behind an iPhone? 04. Use Value and Exchange Value: Can Knowledge Be Bought and Sold? 05. Commodity Fetishism: Why Can We Never Stop Shopping? 06. Economic Determinism: Does the Economic Base Really Determine Marriage? 07. Class and Stratification: From New York Elites to Beijing's “Ant Tribe” 08. The Duality of Human Nature: Are People Born Good or Evil? 09. Moral Education: How Is Human Nature Educated? 10. Division of Labor: Is Being a Homemaker the World's Easiest and Hardest Job? 11. Organic Solidarity: Should You Help a Fallen Stranger? 12. Social Integration: Why Do We Grow More Attached to Home as We Age? 13. Suicide: How Do I Face the World After Leslie Cheung's Death? 14. Anomie: What Can Rescue a Society Without Norms? 15. Ideal Types: If Economists Call Us Rational Actors, Does That Make It True? 16. Charismatic Authority: Does Our Love of Young Idols Reflect Charisma? 17. Bureaucracy: Why Does a Student Union Have Hundreds of “Ministers”? 18. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Why Did Capitalism Not Arise in China? 19. Instrumental Versus Value Rationality: Crying in a BMW or Laughing on a Bicycle? 20. The Iron Cage: Have We Entered Chaplin's Modern Times? 21. Disenchantment: Can Gene Editing Make Humans Their Own Creators? 22. Scholarship as a Vocation: Do You Understand the Struggles of Young Faculty? 23. Money and Modern Life: What Do We Mean When We Talk About Money? 24. Society as a Work of Art: Can Mixture Possess the Beauty of Order? 25. The Philosophy of Fashion: Forever Young, Forever in Love with Filters and Short Videos 26. The Stranger: How Difficult Is It to Trust Others Today? 27. The Metropolis and Mental Life: Does Everyone Carry a Hometown They Cannot Return To? 28. Community and Society: Square Dancing or Mahjong—How Do We Belong? 29. Order as Natural Law: How Can We Build a Better Social Order? 30. The Sociological Imagination: A Key to Understanding the World Critically Yan Fei's New Year Message: Slow Down and Think New Book | Yan Fei × Luo Xiang × Lin Bai: Is Telling Another's Suffering a Form of Consumption? New Book | Yan Fei × Xiang Biao: Without a Sense of the Nearby, These Problems Remain Invisible Bonus Dialogue | Zheng Zuoyu × Yan Fei: What Kind of University Do We Need in a World That Breaks Its Promises? 2025 Bonus | What Makes a Home? A Hopeless City and an Estranged Hometown