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Post by Sociologydefector on Jun 22, 2014 13:54:10 GMT -5
I know this is the Sociology Job market forum, but as a sociologist in a non-sociology department (a TT position), I'd love to know what non-soc places people are finding jobs. I know when I was on the market, I had a hard time imagining where sociologists could go and would have loved to have known what my options were.
I'm not suggesting putting tons of ads for non-soc jobs, just wondering if could we have a thread where people volunteer where they get hired?
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Post by socuser20 on Jun 22, 2014 16:43:52 GMT -5
I was hired in a department of Medical Education. Lots of flexibility and resources, though a very different environment than I was used to. I'm really enjoying it.
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Post by Sociology nomad on Jun 22, 2014 17:40:51 GMT -5
I'm totally looking into other options, myself. I've been an asst. prof for 5 years, actually coming up for tenure, and am plagued by thoughts of leaving.
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Post by Sociologydefector on Jun 22, 2014 18:20:29 GMT -5
I was hired in a department of Medical Education. Lots of flexibility and resources, though a very different environment than I was used to. I'm really enjoying it. I'm in a similar space; I'm in a medical school.
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Post by The Tenure Committee on Jun 22, 2014 21:11:38 GMT -5
Common non-Sociology homes for sociologists: Public Health schools/departments Policy schools/departments Crim departments Med schools Science-technology studies departments
These are just the academic homes. Outside of academia there are lots of possibilities for skilled researchers. Census, BLS, CDC/NCHS, Westat, RAND, Urban Institute etc.
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Post by Keep 'em coming! on Jun 23, 2014 1:18:12 GMT -5
What's funny is how nobody told me about these kinds of opportunities in graduate school. I went to an R1 and was narrowcast and streamlined for a life as a university professor. Now that I've been an asst. prof for three years at a decent research university ... yikes! Get me outta here!!!
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Post by B-Schools on Jun 23, 2014 6:30:21 GMT -5
What about B-Schools? How are the prospects for organizational sociologists?
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Post by The Tenure Committee on Jun 23, 2014 11:42:23 GMT -5
What about B-Schools? How are the prospects for organizational sociologists? It does happen, though less frequently than the others. However, you have to be pretty strong methodologically. Even then you know how economists are
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Post by Orgs to b-school on Jun 26, 2014 22:57:19 GMT -5
That's totally possible. Not necessarily easy, but definitely possible. It really depends on what you do, and what they're looking for. Probably the best bet is in the management subfields.
And note that while doing heavy quant helps, it's not necessary across the board. For a nice example of someone with non-quant research, look up Lauren Rivera at Northwestern, who is in the HRM area. Really great work, strong project, really nice fit. Not quantitative.
OTOH, you will have to figure out how to package your work, and you might face a learning curve as you will likely need to shift away from just publishing in sociology journals. I will say though, that this isn't the hardest thing to do, because we all have to repackage our work and translate when talking to people in different subfields, so this is just more of the same thing...
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Post by duh? on Aug 1, 2014 21:05:55 GMT -5
What's funny is how nobody told me about these kinds of opportunities in graduate school. I went to an R1 and was narrowcast and streamlined for a life as a university professor. Now that I've been an asst. prof for three years at a decent research university ... yikes! Get me outta here!!! We all went to "R1's".... if they had a PhD program, it's a research univ.
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Post by cjunk on Aug 8, 2014 20:07:19 GMT -5
I went to a CJ department. Big mistake. Did a 180 and got back to Sociology as quick as I could. Couldn't be happier. So I guess it can work both ways
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Post by SocFolk on Aug 9, 2014 18:56:11 GMT -5
What didn't you like about the CJ dept, cjunk?
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Post by wrong on Aug 19, 2014 23:16:06 GMT -5
What's funny is how nobody told me about these kinds of opportunities in graduate school. I went to an R1 and was narrowcast and streamlined for a life as a university professor. Now that I've been an asst. prof for three years at a decent research university ... yikes! Get me outta here!!! We all went to "R1's".... if they had a PhD program, it's a research univ
Hey Duh, you're wrong. R1 isn't even an official designation, but even when it was not all Ph.D. programs were are r1 universities. I'm in the Chicago area and Depaul, Loyola, and UIC all have ph.d. programs and known of those three were recognized by carnagie as r1 institutions.
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Post by wrong on Aug 19, 2014 23:19:13 GMT -5
We all went to "R1's".... if they had a PhD program, it's a research univ
Hey Duh, you're wrong. R1 isn't even an official designation, but even when it was not all Ph.D. programs were are r1 universities. I'm in the Chicago area and Depaul, Loyola, and UIC all have ph.d. programs and known of those three were recognized by carnagie as r1 institutions.
The irony of my typos while pointing out a mistake are not lost on me...
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Post by pedant2 on Aug 20, 2014 0:15:18 GMT -5
Kids, kids, not only is this pedantic as hell, but you are both wrong. Research 1 became research extensive in the carnegie classification system, and the last time they used it, in 2000, UIC and Loyola (but not Depaul, which has phd programs but not in sociology) were included. That said, some R2s (renamed research intensive in the 2000 report before they dropped this classification) do have graduate programs in sociology (e.g., UCF).
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