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Post by ohh on Mar 7, 2012 10:29:11 GMT -5
Discussion in another thread started going in the direction of "funky" departments where a lot of research is being done on new/interesting subjects.
This piqued my interest. What departments do people think are funky?
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Post by NotSoFunky on Apr 12, 2012 20:33:10 GMT -5
I'm not surprised that no one has volunteered a "funky" department. Given another thread on department ranking, there appears to be a strong commitment to conformity among a good number of forum discussants. Perhaps this is why a good amount of American sociology is so dreadfully boring: too many people scrambling to toe the line and/or willing to publicize really uncreative and mundane ideas about department status and rankings.
UT-Austin, Yale, and Oregon, I think, are at least a little funky.
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Post by LOL on Apr 12, 2012 23:00:54 GMT -5
If by funky you mean so incredibly un-funky that it is in fact a little funky, then yes, I agree that UT-Austin is funky.
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Post by Yalie on Apr 13, 2012 1:48:35 GMT -5
If by funky, you mean never denuding assistants and providing lackluster training across the social sciences, then Yale is certainly funky.
Most of the faculty there fo research that is pretty mainstream for their subfields. That doesn't mean the research isn't good though.
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Post by Notsofunky on Apr 13, 2012 7:48:07 GMT -5
Awesome. I'm rescind my "Yale and UT-Austin are funky" claim.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2012 9:21:38 GMT -5
I think there are some departments where people are doing unconventional, creative work. University of Massachusetts-Amherst comes to mind. Maybe some of the liberal arts college departments too -- like Pomona and Wellesley. San Francisco State. I'd like to hear about others!
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Post by Or on Apr 13, 2012 16:56:57 GMT -5
I think there are some departments where people are doing unconventional, creative work. University of Massachusetts-Amherst comes to mind. Maybe some of the liberal arts college departments too -- like Pomona and Wellesley. San Francisco State. I'd like to hear about others! I think you might be confusing funky with garbage. |
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Post by NotSoFunky on Apr 13, 2012 18:12:59 GMT -5
If by "garbage" you mean yet another research project using the "latest" method on the topic of the day that no one will ever read even if one's friends managed to get it included in the AJS or ASR....
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Post by wow on Apr 19, 2012 11:52:54 GMT -5
Wow, you guys are terrible humans. Way to shit all over a thread. On the other hand, "funky" is a term only out of touch yuppies use to describe subcultural elements they don't understand.
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Post by OR on Jul 5, 2012 11:39:05 GMT -5
I'd second the Oregon comment above. Lots of young, innovative scholars doing interesting work. Exciting department. (I'm not at Oregon, either).
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Post by I like this thread on Oct 25, 2012 16:23:29 GMT -5
Georgia State has some really interesting people doing unique work.
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