Category: Academic Professionalization
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Does Going Abroad Boost Your Income and Help Your Career?
As a small world gets smaller, employers across the US and Europe are looking for that “international experience” element in the resumes of job applicants. Does going abroad, even for a little while, give you an edge in the job market? Working or living abroad gives people skills and knowledge that businesses can use as […]
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Sociology and AI Text-to-Image: A Practical Guide
AI text-to-image — where users input textual descriptions into an Artificial Intelligence website or app to generate a unique picture — is a new way for sociologists to understand society and teach sociology. This post provides a practical guide for sociologists to use AI text-to-image for research and classroom instruction. What is AI Text-to-Image? There […]
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Some Tips on Finding Research Grants
Tips for researchers to obtain grant funding In addition to the top tips for grant writing, I gathered some tips by Jonathan O’Donnell in a blog post for LSE. With shrinking funding options and more and more PhDs in the world, how to get grants? Some tips if you are… A Reviewer of Grants Register to review […]
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Tips for Hybrid and Online Academic Conferences
How does a hybrid or online academic conference work? In an online conference, everyone appears via the internet. Hybrid academic conferences involve two types of participants and attendees: those in-person and those online. Now, and in the future, some conferences and workshops may be online only and others hybrid. We can learn new techniques. Here […]
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How to Write the Introduction to a Research Article in the Social Sciences
What is an introduction? Empirical research articles in the social sciences require a title, an abstract, and an introduction. Introductions in social science articles are short — perhaps three or four paragraphs long. They are at the beginning of empirically-based research articles in sociology, psychology, and political science. In a previous article, we discussed the […]
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Sociology Blogs in 2022
What are sociology blogs? Sociology blogs are typically short-form online writing by professional sociologists. Many blogs are about particular topics, such as political inequality, or economic sociology, and so on. Some are general interest sites, such as Everyday Sociology and The Sociology Place. What sociology blogs are still around in 2022? There was a boom […]
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Choosing Concepts: An Application of Gerring’s Typology to Max Weber’s Class, Status, and Party
In a previous article, we discussed John Gerring’s (1999) typology of how to choose a concept. In this article, we apply this to a famous set of concepts by sociologist Max Weber. Class, Status and Party Let’s apply what we have learned about concepts to a classic, German sociologist Max Weber’s “Class, Status, and Party” […]
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What is a concept? How should we choose a concept?
When we write social science articles, we write about concepts. What is a concept? How do we choose the right one? Defining “Concept” A dictionary definition of concept is that it is “an abstract idea.” It is a thought. For a thought to move from your head to the page and out in the world, […]
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Writing the Acknowledgements Section of a Research Article
Who should you acknowledge in a research article in the social sciences? Many things went right (and, perhaps wrong) in your writing of a research article in the social sciences. You should acknowledge the help that you received. But, who should you acknowledge? The ethical core of an acknowledgment section in a research article in […]