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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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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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 […]