It has been a very tough decade for the sociology job market, and faculty jobs are getting tougher to land. At the same time, doctoral students often feel discouraged from pursuing a career outside of the academy. One viable response may be to reconsider old attitudes about a career in […]
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Joe, Leslie, Gabriel and Fabio Rojas (Indiana University) discuss elitism in sociology. Fabio Rojas is the current editor of Contexts Magazine, and is the author of From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. His new book is Theory for the Working Sociologist
This is a special episode of The Annex that looks at sociology at community colleges. We meet four colleagues at community colleges: Shirley Leyro (CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College), Myron Strong (Community College of Baltimore County), Vondora Wilson (Nassau Community College), and Christina Wolfe (Georgia Highlands College). We discuss the community college […]
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel ask Conrad Hackett from the Pew Research Center about careers in the private research industry.
This week, the gang sits down with Conrad Hackett from the Pew Research Center. Conrad recently authored The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050, a report on changes to the religious composition of the world’s countries. We also discuss Twitter fame, the Puerto Rico hurricane death count, and careers […]