Originally posted by synnsa at The Walking Dread Zombie Black Friday

Originally posted by synnsa at The Souls of Black Folk (1903) -W.E.B Du Bois

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help me I am looking for copies of a few of Pollert's articles.

The Flexible Firm: A Reality or Obsession?

Sociologie du travail Pollert yr:1989 vol:31 iss:1 pg:75 -106

Dismantling Flexability
Capital & Class Spring 1988 vol. 12 no. 1 42-75                        
           

Unfortunately I cannot access either of these journals through my university, and was wondering if anyone had copies of them.

Thank you for any help in advance,
Carol

I'm giving a talk next week to the undergrads in my department on going to grad school in sociology (like: Should you go to grad school? How do you apply? What are schools looking for? etc.)

I'm trying to come up with a list of jobs that sociologists get. I'm trying to be realistic but also point out the range of options.

So far I've come up with:
MA
Sociology Instructor
Federal Government Research (Census, CDC, BLS, DOJ, DHS, CIA)
State and Local Government (Research, Social Services)
Non-Profits
Market Research
Public Opinion Research
Human Resources
Business Management
Law Enforcement [this one is kinda odd I know, but we have a crim concentration in our MA program here and a bunch of our graduates end up as local cops]

PhD
Sociology Professor
Postdoctoral Researcher
Think Tanks
Consulting
Same areas as with MA, with higher pay, higher level jobs

What am I leaving out? I'm specifically looking for jobs that a soc grad degree will help you get, or help you get higher pay in, not jobs you can get with a BA.

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It seems at the two colleges where I adjunct, this is the course NOBODY wants to teach. (It's fine with me - I love teaching it, and that means I always have at least one course).

It's a weird conundrum - I mean, it is, at many colleges, one of *the* most popular sociology courses - at one school I teach, they only offer two sections of it (essentially 70 seats), and it filled up in like, a week.  Students seem to love the concept of taking the class, but many profs dread teaching it.

My only porblem with the course, as a sociology professor, is finding a worthwhile text.  It's kind of hard to find something that is contemporary (and not social history) that isn't too Marxist in its praxis,  that isn't just a bunch of statistics and (for my campus) is inexpensive (the State of Maryland has an accord which says that when professors look for textbooks, they must look for 'affordable texts').  I've taught this course 3 semesters - and tried 3 different texts - all fails.

Any thoughts?

Hi all. I was just seeking advice about whether or not I should go to the ASA's annual conference this year. My paper did not get selected for a regular session, but it was selected for a roundtable. I know that the roundtable is supposedly not as "prestigious" as presenting at a regular session, so I was wondering if anyone thought it was even worth the money to go present at the roundtable? I won't be starting grad school until the Fall, so I don't think I can get any funding to go, and it isn't the cheapest. However, I'd love to start building my CV as early as possible, and I think this may be a good chance in getting my feet wet. Thoughts? Comments? Advice? Thanks!

 Ok, so I'm 19 and this will be my first time presenting at a conference. The conference accepts both undergrad and grad presentations. I submitted a proposal that was really a draft of something I had written in school. I submitted it simply in order to be able to get into the conference in the first place. And because I really didn't have time to think things thoroughly and write up something polished.

I have not written a full paper or anything. I am presenting on-going research. However, I've only really just begun to do research on my said topic. BUT, I've changed around my position on what I am going to research now. The topic though is pretty much the same. So in other words, my proposal can practically be ignored in terms of my presentation..since I've changed what I am focusing on and my arguments. I don't know if that would piss off the organizers, the moderaters (the people I submitted the proposal to in other words).

What I am worried about though is that since this is just the beginning of my research, the audience (in particular the professors, researchers who are experts in their fields, etc) may be critical or angry about the fact this is not research that has been going on for months in which I can give results definitively. I am planning on making this an in-depth ethnography and have already begun to interview people. I am using a specific sociology theory and I do know the several problems I want to address (and have read around somewhat).

So I guess my questions/options are:

1. Should I just drop the presentation and do it next year where I'll have much more information (and probably have completed the research)? The presentation is only for 15 min.( But even 15 min can demonstrate whether a person's research is quality-stuff.)
2.Should I go with it, present what I have and what I am thinking of, letting the audience KNOW that this is on-going research?
3. If you think I SHOULD present, would it be best to let the organizers know that I've changed stuff around?

If anyone has ever presented at a conference, it'd also be nice to know how these things usually go. Are they formal? Would I have to dress up to be taken seriously?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has access to the article

The Japanese at work: illusions of the ideal  by Pamela Briggs

It was in Volume 19 Issue 1 of the Industrial Relations Journal in March 1988

Any help is appreciated.

Carol