Sociologist on "NYU junior search"
Yeah, who will be the lucky one to get "real-time analysis and "hot takes" from our panel of grad students"?
View ArticleSociologist on "hardest question you were asked during job talk?"
"Interesting talk, but please know that I could never support a male job candidate." Not kidding on that one. During the job talk Q&A.
View ArticleSociologist on "how about that NYU brochure?"
Well NYU did show deep interest in getting Monk last year (lots of schools did). This year's crop of JMCs looks more diverse than usual. But yeah, they're looking pretty pale over there... So these...
View ArticleSociologist on "how about that NYU brochure?"
Hard to infer anything about either grad students or faculty at NYU based on this (clearly hamfisted) brochure. It was probably the Chair-- whoever that is-- as I imagine the collective intelligence of...
View ArticleSociologist on "why can't we discuss race here?"
Because race is a social construct, and sociologists never talk about social constructs. Where you been anyway?
View ArticleSociologist on "why can't we discuss race here?"
Oh, race trolls...silly, silly race trolls...
View ArticleSociologist on "Jonathan Haidt - Yale Buckley lecture on Coddling U. vs....
It must be sooooo oppressive to attend an ivy league school AND not get invited to SAE's parties! I don't know how these minority students deal with being such trauma.
View ArticleSociologist on "Jonathan Haidt - Yale Buckley lecture on Coddling U. vs....
^^^ I'm sure these ivy leaguers will be flooded with "member's only" fellowships, scholarships, grants, assistantships, and eventually TT jobs because they're so suffering from oppression. Some of them...
View ArticleSociologist on "Stars of the fall 2015 market"
Yeah, I never understood Stanford's ranking.
View ArticleSociologist on "List of Schools with Faith Statements"
It's basically the place you'd expect, right? Any evangelical school (Pepperdine, Biola, Liberty, etc.) or school with close financial connections to a religious body (Baylor, Samford). I don't know if...
View ArticleSociologist on "Stars of the fall 2015 market"
Added some info for a couple of people from Stanford and NYU: Tier 1: Maria Abascal (Princeton ABD) - 7 R1 Talks (Columbia, Duke, NYU, Michigan, Stanford, UCSB, Yale) Tier 2: Anthony Jack (Harvard ABD)...
View ArticleSociologist on "Stars of the fall 2015 market"
Avoid the toilet placement brigade, too. Basically, don't go to Chicago, Penn, Northwestern, Penn State, Indiana, or Ohio State, if you have any other top 20 option. I honesty don't see what's so bad...
View ArticleSociologist on "Jonathan Haidt - Yale Buckley lecture on Coddling U. vs....
^ sociologists? No, not sociologists. It is a bunch of wack undergrads protesting against a sociologist and his wife. It pretty nice makes both Haidt's point and 6049's point above. I read about it in...
View ArticleSociologist on "Stars of the fall 2015 market"
^^^ Light years better than Northwestern.
View ArticleSociologist on "How to handle the exploding offer?"
I've had one school call me on Monday after somebody verbally accepted on Friday (I'd interviewed the previous Monday) and another e-mail me on Friday to tell me they decided to offer the job to...
View ArticleSociologist on "How to handle the exploding offer?"
Get your advisor involved. Have your department put pressure on them to give you time. You don't have leverage. But your faculty/committee may... They will say, "do you really want to recruit someone...
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