Sociologist on "Dream Topics"
Child sex offenders. To be completely honest, this group is at the intersection of so much stuff that the intellectual puzzle would be endless.
View ArticleSociologist on "Stupid Chairs/Leadership"
The chair in my old department was a SJW--would rant at faculty senate, fight the power, protect the kids, you know the deal. Over time it hurt the department's standing with higher-ups. They simply...
View ArticleSociologist on "ASA employment service"
Great that it worked for you, but these results are not typical.you got some dataz for that?
View ArticleSociologist on "the three student loan crises | Org Theory"
the three student loan crisesAmong higher ed policy folks, there’s a counter-conventional wisdom that there is no student loan crisis. For the most part (the story goes), student loans are a good...
View ArticleSociologist on "Dream Topics"
Probationers or parolees. IRB at my skool won't let you study probationers or parolees in the community without Department of Corrections consent and try getting DOC consent for ethnographic study of...
View ArticleSociologist on "Dream Topics"
Probationers or parolees. IRB at my skool won't let you study probationers or parolees in the community without Department of Corrections consent and try getting DOC consent for ethnographic study of...
View ArticleSociologist on "ASA and Job Market Talk"
I am hoping to present the same stuff if/when I get fly outs. I assume people do that?Yes, clearly, if you set up your ASA talk to present part of your dissertation. But it's not going to be the...
View ArticleSociologist on "Most pet friendly departments?"
You do realize that bringing your dog to school is selfish and narcissistic right? Soc grads - life is all about them!
View ArticleSociologist on "Is there a procedure / test for determining (ex post) sample...
Qualtard here. I have a convenience sample of survey respondents. I'm interested in providing some measure of the extent to which it is representative of population characteristics (age, gender, etc.),...
View ArticleSociologist on "Charisma: brought to academia by Weber, brought to the...
https://aeon.co/ideas/charisma-is-a-mysterious-and-dangerous-giftActually interesting in a history of sociology way (not really in any other way). Here's the...
View ArticleSociologist on "Charisma: brought to academia by Weber, brought to the...
The interesting section of the article:The idea of charisma then lay largely dormant for centuries. Only in the writings of the 20th-century German sociologist Max Weber was it reborn. In fact, we owe...
View ArticleSociologist on "Is there a procedure / test for determining (ex post) sample...
Is there a standard statistical procedure or test for this? Obviously I can simply tabulate the characteristics of the sample and the population, but is there anything more formal that I can do?Other...
View ArticleSociologist on "Is there a procedure / test for determining (ex post) sample...
No. You can get census data for the subpopulation that you collected on and then test how different the average age and other characteristics of your sample are. That will not tell you whether your...
View ArticleSociologist on "Is there a procedure / test for determining (ex post) sample...
No. You can get census data for the subpopulation that you collected on and then test how different the average age and other characteristics of your sample are. That will not tell you whether your...
View ArticleSociologist on "Is there a procedure / test for determining (ex post) sample...
If the sampling wasn't random, it's not generalizable in a statistical sense even if your sample has demographic characteristics similar to the population.You'd be best off with a table showing the...
View ArticleSociologist on "ASA and Job Market Talk"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775716303831
View ArticleSociologist on "Most pet friendly departments?"
Dog lovers unite!I don't care that 1) some people are allergic to dogs 2) my dog sheds 3) some people are scared of dogs 4) noone knows (possibly including you) how well my dog is trained 5) if...
View ArticleSociologist on "Book publishing question"
I know a few trade presses that do really well at promoting, and quite a few UPs where the book just goes on the catalogue. The text is marketable and timely. Do you think this counts as much for UPs...
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