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• Thread: 316 Goods vs 76 No Goods

1. Sociologist
   f1bd
   

   I've been on and off the market for years.

   I don't have hard data, but it seems like there are more race jobs than 5 years ago as a proportion of jobs. Crim is still good.

   People from low ranked programs rarely get tenure track jobs. I've seen 25-30 people graduate from my unranked program and 2-3 have gotten tenure track jobs. This will probably get even worse in the future.

   As the old dudes retire, they are mostly being replaced by white women. I'm not sure exactly what that means for our field, but in a decade or so the major power brokers in our field will almost exclusively be white women.

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2. Sociologist
   7d58
   

   If you are not doing race, medical sociology, or criminology, you are in trouble.

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3. Sociologist
   1207
   

   This. Our field is becoming feminized and most jobs will be casualized and teaching-focused.

   Also, we have given up a broad research agenda (think social psych, culture, science+technology, etc.) for a "social problems" worldview. I fear that undergrads will be turned off by a major that is little more than methodologically enriched crim, gender studies and ethnic studies.

   As the old dudes retire, they are mostly being replaced by white women. I'm not sure exactly what that means for our field, but in a decade or so the major power brokers in our field will almost exclusively be white women.

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4. Sociologist
   393f
   

   If you are not doing race, medical sociology, or criminology, you are in trouble.

   You're in trouble even working in those areas.

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5. Sociologist
   9d58
   

   True. But notice how the undergrads are still hooked through broad sociology, then in grad school all of a sudden they have to give a $s**t about Acker, Swidler and what not...

   This. Our field is becoming feminized and most jobs will be casualized and teaching-focused.
   Also, we have given up a broad research agenda (think social psych, culture, science+technology, etc.) for a "social problems" worldview. I fear that undergrads will be turned off by a major that is little more than methodologically enriched crim, gender studies and ethnic studies.

   As the old dudes retire, they are mostly being replaced by white women. I'm not sure exactly what that means for our field, but in a decade or so the major power brokers in our field will almost exclusively be white women.

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6. Sociologist
   ae86
   

   There will always be a need for sociologists in the future BUT hopefully not for sjw folx who made the discipline a laughing stock.

   Judging based on neoliberal sjws’ usefulness for the state in the sense that they cover up more serious forms of state-led exploitation by having tantrums over pronouns or “decolonizing theory,” they will stay.

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7. Sociologist
   9a01
   

   The intellectually vibrant part of the field (econ soc, etc.) is more than ever exclusively the province of the elite departments and non-soc units. While the social problems ("oppression studies") approach will continue to dominate work in non-elite soc departments.

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8. Sociologist
   a926
   

   We have to offer this course. It is an ordeal. There is another one so specific and so oppression-focused. You gotta make students believe race, class and gender can be analyzed only from a me-politics perspective.

   The intellectually vibrant part of the field (econ soc, etc.) is more than ever exclusively the province of the elite departments and non-soc units. While the social problems ("oppression studies") approach will continue to dominate work in non-elite soc departments.

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9. Sociologist
   a926
   

   ^ our content is so oppression focused and ignores any other dimension of social life that our students experienced depressive episodes toward the end of the semester, due to the content.

   I had no power over content. I definitely do not agree but cannot say anything just for my paycheck. IQ killer.

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10. Sociologist
    a926
    

    I mean in another course that could be fun. Instead the prof wanted to start the semester sharing her traumas. Go to a shrink like I do, professor.

    ^ our content is so oppression focused and ignores any other dimension of social life that our students experienced depressive episodes toward the end of the semester, due to the content.
    I had no power over content. I definitely do not agree but cannot say anything just for my paycheck. IQ killer.

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11. Sociologist
    ab65
    

    As others said, it is possible to find jobs if you are in crim, race, or health.

    I’d also add if you have good quant skills it will help too (especially for outside academia).

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