Sociologist on "Marriage promotion snake oil tour | FI"
In what universe does promoting the legitimacy of single parent homes among America's blackest and poorest people serve anyone?It's not about black/poor, it's "about" an almost cartoon version of the...
View ArticleSociologist on "How hard is book writing??"
I have the final chapter of my book open in another window, but of course, I'm only writing in this one. :) I suspect experiences vary, but I've found writing the book to be incredibly difficult for...
View ArticleSociologist on "How hard is book writing??"
I found the writing part okay. In fact, it was even sort of freeing. I could be a bit more creative in my writing style, without feeling so hemmed in by the conventions that dominate article-writing in...
View ArticleSociologist on "Do business schools tenure sociologists?"
Who are some of the most recent sociologists to earn tenure/promotions at business schools?Lauren Rivera was tenured last year.
View ArticleSociologist on "Marriage promotion snake oil tour | FI"
^ Let's not make this personal, but I'll put $1,000 on the table that average male professor who has kids is a) way more likely to be married than the average hourly worker at McDonalds and if he is...
View ArticleSociologist on "Ethics/consequences of backing out of adjuncting gig"
Hi all - several months ago I agreed to adjunct a course this spring quarter, which I'd be adding on top of my primary teaching gig at my home institution. I've realized that I'm completely overwhelmed...
View ArticleSociologist on "Marriage promotion snake oil tour | FI"
Say what? The argument in Coming Part is pretty simple: 1) Poor whites are in increasingly unstable homes with low rates of marriage and other signs of social dislocation (eg, opiate abuse) 2)...
View ArticleSociologist on "gradcafe crosspost"
dying waiting for columbia, chicago, nyu, and princeton responses.
View ArticleSociologist on "Racial Diversity Causes Conflict | NBER"
More like conflict causes genetic diversity through raping, trafficking, slavery, genocide, etc.How does genocide cause diversity?
View ArticleSociologist on "Mount St Mary's"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/09/the-controversy-at-mount-st-marys-goes-national-after-professors-are-fired/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_gp-mountstmarys-652pm%3Ahomepage%2F...
View ArticleSociologist on "Do business schools tenure sociologists?"
I don't know who to trust anymore.Rivera was not tenured--associate without tenure
View ArticleSociologist on "Shit polls are bad for Democracy: As are attention whore...
I still cannot figure out why Sherkat is so stuck on response rates. What is so hard about understanding that survey nonresponse only matters if it is correlated with the outcome variable? And it...
View ArticleSociologist on "Stars of the fall 2015 market"
In the 1910s and 1940s, sure. Nowadays, no.
View ArticleSociologist on "Shit polls are bad for Democracy: As are attention whore...
Assume one has two datasets that, except for what follows, are EXACTLY the same ... One has a response rate of 100% (miraculously). The other has a response rate of 60%.But one never has two such data...
View ArticleSociologist on "Where to go for economic sociology"
Meh. Economics dept.s today train their students in homo economics nonsense that perpetuates the same train wreck we are again beginning to see now in the economy.If that is your opinion of economics,...
View ArticleSociologist on "Who is your favorite presidential candidate?"
Is "feel the Bern" a gonorrhoea joke?
View ArticleSociologist on "Shit polls are bad for Democracy: As are attention whore...
I still cannot figure out why Sherkat is so stuck on response rates. What is so hard about understanding that survey nonresponse only matters if it is correlated with the outcome variable? And it...
View ArticleSociologist on "Shit polls are bad for Democracy: As are attention whore...
I still cannot figure out why Sherkat is so stuck on response rates. What is so hard about understanding that survey nonresponse only matters if it is correlated with the outcome variable? And it...
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