In this final episode of series 1 (we will be back next year) of the Social Theory Podcast I spoke to Morteza Hashemi about the great Arabic scholar Ibn Khaldun. See the end of this post for links to the episode. Khaldun was around in the 14th and 15th century and lived and  traveled across the...

The focus of this episode is George Herbert Mead who has had a tremendous impact on sociology, psychology and philosophy. See the end of this post for links to the episode. I talk to Darren Nixon about Mead’s most famous contribution; his  conceptualisation of the self as as being comprised of...