Sociologist on "To discuss or not to discuss? At PAA."
Perhaps you're at a VVVLRM. In any respectable school, that's the expectation.You cannot be serious. It's customary to receive a small stipend for this IF someone asks you to be a discussant as a...
View ArticleSociologist on "When Research is too much and too little: Forging a research...
Exceptions. Those at the very, very top of the market tend to have top solo pubs. They are often seen as those with clear, compelling, coherent, and independent research agendas.
View ArticleSociologist on ""Me-search" is such a BS critique"
That's fair. Can you give us some actual examples? What is the most well-received piece of "mesearch" that you find problematic? I've came across many people who study their own community, white or...
View ArticleSociologist on "When Research is too much and too little: Forging a research...
^ not exceptions. a lot of people at the very top have many of their publications with senior people who are if not obviously guiding then strongly influencing the research.
View ArticleSociologist on "When Research is too much and too little: Forging a research...
I wish someone would have told me this. I was simply advised to publish my a$$ off and that's what I did. Now I have diarrhea all over my CV.
View ArticleSociologist on "When Research is too much and too little: Forging a research...
I wish someone would have told me this. I was simply advised to publish my a$$ off and that's what I did. Now I have diarrhea all over my CV.Because of the publish or perish induced stress I have...
View ArticleSociologist on "When Research is too much and too little: Forging a research...
I wish someone would have told me this. I was simply advised to publish my a$$ off and that's what I did. Now I have diarrhea all over my CV.Because of the publish or perish induced stress I have...
View ArticleSociologist on "EJMR fantasy fiction strong"
Those trolls are copypasta. EJMR had a lot of variants of it a couple years...
View ArticleSociologist on "To discuss or not to discuss? At PAA."
As a grad student an opportunity has fallen in your lap in a conference where most people don't manage to present.Is it really true? That most people don't manage to present at PAA?
View ArticleSociologist on "Unions for R1 Faculty?"
So no one has even a view, let alone an informed one on this? On a sociology board?
View ArticleSociologist on "Unions for R1 Faculty?"
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/12/faculty-organizing-at-the-university-of-washington How will this affect hiring, promotion and salary decisuons? An end to star system and retention offers?I...
View ArticleSociologist on "Unions for R1 Faculty?"
Loomis cracks me up. There is "literally zero downside" to unionizing? As he points out, faculty unions are universally dominated by the humanities. The result of unionizing is that decisions over how...
View ArticleSociologist on "experience with Research in Social Stratification and Mobility?"
Not sure what the conference has to do with the journal. RC28 does two conferences every year.ee5a, what happened after that? Did you do the R&R? If so, was it quicker the 2nd time around?
View ArticleSociologist on "experience with Research in Social Stratification and Mobility?"
ee5a here. No I did not do the R&R. I retooled the paper and sent it off to another journal.
View ArticleSociologist on "When Research is too much and too little: Forging a research...
Sherkat now: "Quality matters more than quantity"Sherkat two years ago, using quantities as a cudgel with which to beat Andrew Perrin: "I’ve also got you beat several times over on published words in...
View ArticleSociologist on ""Me-search" is such a BS critique"
This is just pathetic. And I'm pretty sure you all are virgins. Virginity is a social construct Virgins are underrepresented at the top programs. We have to do something about this. Actually, I bet...
View ArticleSociologist on "Under-representation of Latino Faculty in Soc Departments"
Hiring is not the problem. Maybe start looking at retention rates and who gets tenure. If they don't have tenure, they are probationary in reality, and that "diversity" can be a revolving door of hires...
View ArticleSociologist on "University of Arizona (black faculty)?"
Arizona has tried to recruit and hire black faculty recently (e.g. Ellis Monk last year) but has been unsuccessful. Can't fault the effort.
View ArticleSociologist on "University of Arizona (black faculty)?"
Arizona has 0 black faculty. Michigan has no junior black faculty (and only 2 in a massive department). Wisconsin has no black faculty in Sociology. Stanford has 1. Berkeley has 2, but no juniors....
View ArticleSociologist on "University of Arizona (black faculty)?"
Arizona tried to get Monk. That's cute. Why not go after minorities they actually have a chance to get?Departments are going to have to do a lot better than this if they really care about diversity....
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