Sociologist on "Some Actual Research on Adjunctification"
The problem with the adjunctification story is that it treats "higher ed" as a single "industry," so that "real universities" are lumped in with for profit bottom feeders, glorified high schools (CCs),...
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JEEP JEEP JEEPAwwwwwww helllz yayuh!!! He said JEEP. Called it out three times. THREE TIMES. Super cool guy on the scene, jeepy jeep, and he has your number. What now boyeeeeeee?!?!?
View ArticleSociologist on "Some Actual Research on Adjunctification"
Jeep: Did your program get any students this year? Did you go to the meet and greet? Will you do ASA to reprezent?
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The Jeep patrol are so cute. They try so hard. Pitiful little things. Bless their hearts.
View ArticleSociologist on "Sociologist "consciously uncouples" from academia"
Ha. Glad to still see first years on here during the slow periods. Not deflecting anything. You essentially said it's all nonsense and none of it's observable. I challenged you to point something out....
View ArticleSociologist on "Sociology on Fashion Besides Simmel, Lieberson?"
I want to trace the emergence of several recent fashions and their, God I guess I have to say it, meaning. Any recent sociology on this? Not really looking for diffusion studies because the focus is...
View ArticleSociologist on "Sociology on Fashion Besides Simmel, Lieberson?"
Take a look at Diana Crane-Herve"In her most recent book, Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing, Dr. Crane compares nineteenth-century societies France and the United...
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Maybe Patrick Aspers work could be useful? http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9212.htmlhttps://www.amazon.com/Markets-Fashion-phenomenological-Routledge-Organizations/dp/0415511429
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okay, I'll bite. can you specify an aspect of critical theory that generates predictions that could, in principle, be observed? You're the one that made the claim, not me. Just to be clear, when I talk...
View ArticleSociologist on "ASA section awards"
Didn't think people actually applied for these things in earnest.Only on sjmr.
View ArticleSociologist on "Tips for summer after first year"
Completely disagree with the "read widely" crowd. You should use this summer to read deeply in areas in which you might be interested in writing.There's plenty of time for intense specialization later...
View ArticleSociologist on "ASA section awards"
Didn't think people actually applied for these things in earnest. Only on sjmr.The awards increase your visibility and sometimes come with cash. Why wouldn't people apply in earnest?
View ArticleSociologist on "ASA section awards"
Because they're largely seen as a joke. I've sat on search committees where (other) faculty have made jokes about applicants with more than one section award. "What kind of person thinks these are this...
View ArticleSociologist on "Some Actual Research on Adjunctification"
so we are not losing jobs to adjuncts because we are taking jobs as adjuncts?No. The point people are making is that the newer, growing part of the industry relies nearly exclusively on adjuncts. Take...
View ArticleSociologist on "Sociology on Fashion Besides Simmel, Lieberson?"
I'm not familiar with her work, so not sure if it is what your looking for, but Ashley Mears did some work on the modeling industry
View ArticleSociologist on "ASA section awards"
Because they're largely seen as a joke. I've sat on search committees where (other) faculty have made jokes about applicants with more than one section award. "What kind of person thinks these are this...
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I'd recommend submitting it to a conference and taking the time to strengthen the paper.
View ArticleSociologist on "Sociology on Fashion Besides Simmel, Lieberson?"
Start at Aspers & Godart's 2013 annual review piece on the soc of fashion. Check out both of their books too. Also Crane, as suggested. Also, just from what you've written, I work in your subfield...
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What a silly thing to say...Because they're largely seen as a joke. I've sat on search committees where (other) faculty have made jokes about applicants with more than one section award. "What kind of...
View ArticleSociologist on "Sociology on Fashion Besides Simmel, Lieberson?"
Ashley Mears, Pricing Beauty; Fred Davis, Fashion (second not recent, but often overlooked).
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