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Sociologist
5c21

Who uses SJMR?: http://www.socjobrumors.com/topic/sjmr-census

How can I request a deletion?: Follow the instructions at SJMR's moderation policy: https://www.socjobrumors.com/topic/request-a-thread-to-be-deletedrestored

VLRM/LRM/MRM/HRM/VHRM - very low, low, medium, high, very high ranked monkey. Our system for referring to program rankings. See past threads for clarification/debate. No agreed-upon cutoff. All irony intended.

Kirk - In the beginning, there was kirk. Kirk started the site, and runs the Econ & Poli Sci boards too. He is almost certainly an economist. We don't know who he is, and that it doesn't matter.

Black Friday - a day when many considered moderation got out of control.

Beakman - longtime SJMR user who is perhaps the only publicly known moderator. Not in terms of his/her personal identity, but rather, that beakman is the only moderator who attaches his/her moderation to a screen name.

Cesspool confirmed; troll board; "those people" - discussion from individuals who prefer to come here and talk about how people who use SJMR are bad sociologists/people. In short, those who prefer to complain instead of helping us try to make it better.

Econotrolls - our occasional visitors from EJMR who try to stir things up. In extreme cases, their posts are deleted. Less extreme posts are ignored, and in a best case, we sometimes have a good conversation with them.

Those who shall not be spoken of:
Our friend at Richmond
Our friend at Chicago

SJMF - the other Sociology job site

Feel free to add/edit.

8 years ago # QUOTE 42 GOOD 21 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
5c73

How fitting that at the top you make clear the status acronyms. It makes it clear to new folks that there is a large status-conscious contingent of posters here.

8 years ago # QUOTE 21 GOOD 19 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
b0bf

We shall never forget Black Friday...!

8 years ago # QUOTE 22 GOOD 14 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
9e02

Why is the thread disappearing? It must be the dark mod trying to erase references to Black Friday..! Fire dark mod!

8 years ago # QUOTE 22 GOOD 13 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
c08f

Kirk, cont: aka Kork.

"Trolls", cont.: lots of users racebait, a la YouTube or LRM news websites' comments sections, or talk about things like "sideboob" (inexplicably; you're on the internet, brony, you can look at full boob pretty easily). Probably half the boards assume that these all economists, but they're probably at least half sociologists. These two streams are the "cesspool"

Cishet mammal discourse: played out joke. Probably not made by sociologists because it's too stupid even for us. People confusing sociology with cultural studies in humanities departments. If you don't get the joke (because you're a sociologist and this thing isn't in your department), check out http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/top/

Scientific sociology: meaning unclear. It's what "we" do, unlike those "other other people" who just do "advocacy". We're the stalwart moderates who toe the line between the cesspool being vocally ignorant and publol sociolology being also vocally ignorant.

Public sociology: everyone agrees that sociology has some useful ideas, and that we need to get better at sharing our good ideas to a broad public. Half the users still hate "pubLOL socioLOLogy".

Mesearch: the enemy. Means generally minorities studying minorities, not socially awkward studying socially awkward people (e.g. Bearman's autism research, Latour's laboratory research) or anything like that. Can be rich people studying rich people (Shamus Khan), but only if they're like definitely rich than us. Coleman studying Catholic schools is not mesearch, because we like Coleman and mesearch bad. Also, always qualitative because numbers are scientific (see above).

8 years ago # QUOTE 34 GOOD 25 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
486a

I'll paraphrase myself from an earlier post.

Trolllllllllman, EAT: an AP at Univ. of Richmond, reviled among the SJMR userbase for his ->mesearch.
Fabio Rojas: Indiana University AP, known from the blog -> OrgTheory
OrgTheory: sociology blog at http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/
Str8grandmother: IRATE commenter in the sociology blogosphere.
mesearch: research, often qualitative in nature, aimed at normalizing deviance, for example by positing that gender have always and everywhere been fluid and not dichotomous.
Kirk: Our gargantuan cyborg overlord. May Death come swiftly to his enemies.

8 years ago # QUOTE 13 GOOD 22 NO GOOD !
Kirk
Rep: 93

We could build this up into an official About SJMR thread. We have something similar on EJMR which could be a guide.

http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/about-ejmr

8 years ago # QUOTE 18 GOOD 12 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
c08f

I like lots of things on this board and have participated in trying to make it a better place. But this description is really annoying to me.

Ayo, so I wrote that original thing, I think I'm still on the same IP. Just to be clear, that s**t was tongue firmly in cheek. I get annoyed with how mesearch is thrown around here because a lot of people use it just to mean, "People studying themselves." And I think that completely misses the point of what's wrong with the bad studies that are called "mesearch". First of all, let's acknowledge there's a number of good projects where people "study themselves." I've talked about this more in depth in this old thread (look for homeslice): http://www.socjobrumors.com/topic/research-v-mesearch but lots of great studies have come out of people studying "themselves": Coleman with Catholic schools, or WJW with black people, or Mary Waters with ethnic whites (I assume Mary Waters is Irish or something, but actually I don't know). Anyway, I think most people's problems with "mesearch" misses the forest for the trees. It's not whether people "are people studying themselves", it's whether the work is interesting.

Whether I was a white guy or a desi studying Gujarati convenience stores, I'd write boring work if I couldn't relate it to a real sociological question; like one having to do with entrepreneurs in the ethnic economy, or how people fit Indians in the existing racial hierarchy, or self employment and assimilation, or anything like that. If it's a case study, it needs to be a case of something. The question researchers ought to ask themselves is more along the lines of, "If someone didn't care about Gujarati convenience store clerks at all, why would they read my book?" If your answer is only, "Well, Gujarati convenience store clerks are really important/interesting," then it's probably bogus no
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8 years ago # QUOTE 21 GOOD 12 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
efbb

Kirk - In the beginning, there was kirk. Kirk started the site, and runs the Econ & Poli Sci boards too. He is almost certainly an economist. We don't know who he is, and that it doesn't matter.

I ages it doesn't matter, but Kirk is almost certainly not an economist. In several years of running EJMR, Kirk has never commented on a paper, made reference to any economic methods or models, or otherwise given us reason to think he is an economist.

8 years ago # QUOTE 9 GOOD 15 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
44cd

What if I told you that there is no Kirk?

http://cdn.meme.li/instances/500x/53528049.jpg

8 years ago # QUOTE 15 GOOD 13 NO GOOD !
Kirk
Rep: 93

I ages it doesn't matter, but Kirk is almost certainly not an economist. In several years of running EJMR, Kirk has never commented on a paper, made reference to any economic methods or models, or otherwise given us reason to think he is an economist.

Feel it is too risky for me to weigh on in serious discussions when logged in. Wouldn't want to risk looking partisan / foolish - I'd never recover. Of course I log out to discuss economics issues.

8 years ago # QUOTE 28 GOOD 18 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
b3a2

The history of SJMR's creation as was told by the elders who heard it from the ancient elders:

http://www.socjobrumors.com/topic/the-historical-origins-of-sjmr

8 years ago # QUOTE 11 GOOD 13 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
5c21

I notice that fairly consistently, there is someone who dislikes even the most popular posts on here. This includes purely harmless, non trolling jokes, as well as honest and uncritical information.

As such, I have to wonder if this is one person or a set of people who is/are dedicated to busting up the SJMR party one dislike at a time? Does this just speak to the wide variety of perspectives in sociology, or is this just someone intent on being a wet blanket?

8 years ago # QUOTE 11 GOOD 17 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
9d7d

I notice that fairly consistently, there is someone who dislikes even the most popular posts on here. This includes purely harmless, non trolling jokes, as well as honest and uncritical information.
As such, I have to wonder if this is one person or a set of people who is/are dedicated to busting up the SJMR party one dislike at a time? Does this just speak to the wide variety of perspectives in sociology, or is this just someone intent on being a wet blanket?

I may be wrong but I think that the explanation may possibly be quite trivial -- I have pressed "no good" several times inadvertently when browsing the forum on my phone simply because it happens to be where I usually place the finger with which I scroll down.

8 years ago # QUOTE 9 GOOD 14 NO GOOD !
beakman
Rep: 310

Original "origins" thread, which had been deleted, has been restored:

http://www.socjobrumors.com/topic/the-historical-origins-of-sjmr

8 years ago # QUOTE 9 GOOD 20 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
cde3

Bump:
1) a way to bring attention to a thread by making it the most recently active.
2) an in-joke that calls a poster ignorant of SJMR's ways.

8 years ago # QUOTE 9 GOOD 12 NO GOOD !
beakman
Rep: 310

SJMR's Ask Me Anything (AMA):

Philip Cohen
Barbara Risman
Peter Bearman

7 years ago # QUOTE 13 GOOD 23 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
1126

How do you become a user with a stable name? Wouldn't this place be less cesspoollike if some of the more responsible types used their real names?

7 years ago # QUOTE 11 GOOD 14 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
fcd3

Top of the main page. Click register.

7 years ago # QUOTE 11 GOOD 14 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
4437

Byefelicia

1. An overplayed, outdated reference to the movie Friday.
2. A meme white people are somehow just discovering.
3. A self-important way for sociologists to dismiss others and feel better about themselves.

7 years ago # QUOTE 20 GOOD 20 NO GOOD !

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