{"id":616,"date":"2008-07-03T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=616"},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:09:08","slug":"inside-higher-ed-on-sociologycriminology-job-mismatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/07\/03\/inside-higher-ed-on-sociologycriminology-job-mismatch\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>inside higher ed<\/i> on sociology\/criminology job mismatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>scott jaschik offers another nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2008\/06\/23\/socjobs\"><em>inside higher ed<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>piece today, based on a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/galleries\/default-file\/PhDs%20Employment%20Brief%20%28FINAL%29.pdf\">american sociological association report<\/a> on employment opportunities in academic sociology. an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">More than one third of the assistant professor positions did not specify a subfield. But the top subfield specified (nearly three times more than the runner up) was criminology\/delinquency, and the sixth most popular subfield was a related one, law and society. The concern of those who prepared the report is that evidence suggests grad students are focused elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>i spoke with mr. jaschik on friday, so my opinions on this issue are well-represented in the article. i won&#8217;t say more, except to add a few words of reassurance for sociology grad students with specialties outside criminology. though crim is the top specialty area identified, there were 227 positions listed as &#8220;field open&#8221; in the ASA report, often in top departments. my sense is that these open positions often go to areas such as stratification, demography, and political sociology.<\/p>\n<p>that caveat aside, the ASA report is also reassuring to me as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socsci.umn.edu\/~uggen\/advisees.htm\">advisor<\/a> &#8212; the market continues to be exceptionally strong for sociological criminologists. here are the top specialties specified in job postings for sociology assistant professors in 2006:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><strong><u>Field and Number of Positions<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Field open 227<br \/>\nCriminology\/delinquency 86<br \/>\nQuantitative methods\/statistics 29<br \/>\nTheory 21<br \/>\nUrban\/community 19<br \/>\nRace and ethnicity 19<br \/>\nLaw and society 15<br \/>\nMedical 13<br \/>\nRace, class and gender 12<br \/>\nDemography 11<br \/>\nFamily 11<br \/>\nSocial psychology 11<br \/>\nCulture 10<br \/>\nOrganizations\/Economic 10<br \/>\nStratification\/Labor Markets 9<br \/>\nPolicy Analysis\/Public Policy 8<br \/>\nEducation 7<br \/>\nEnvironment 7<br \/>\nLatino\/Latina 7<br \/>\nPolitical\/Social Movements 7<br \/>\nAging\/Social Gerontology 6<br \/>\nApplied Sociology\/Evaluation Research 5<br \/>\nSocial Welfare\/Social Work 5<br \/>\n<u>Other Fields 75<\/u><br \/>\n<em>Total 610<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scott jaschik offers another nice inside higher ed piece today, based on a new american sociological association report on employment opportunities in academic sociology. an excerpt: More than one third of the assistant professor positions did not specify a subfield. But the top subfield specified (nearly three times more than the runner up) was criminology\/delinquency, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}