Neal Caren<\/a>, a (gloriously employed) sociologist at UNC Chapel Hill, has been tracking the job market himself ever since. \u00a0His data, posted at Scatterplot<\/a>, shows that the discipline has yet to recover from the Great Recession (if<\/em> that’s the sole cause of the decline in job openings). \u00a0The yellow and green line represent the drop captured in the ASA report. \u00a0The purple line represents the devastating next year and the two blue-ish lines represent a slight recovery.<\/p>\n This year, however, the thick orange line, reveals that this year’s market is not signalling a recovery to the job market of my own debut. \u00a0It’s up 5% from last year, Caren explains, \u00a015% from 2010, and “a whopping 73% from 2009.” \u00a0Extrapolating from the ASA data, we’re still down 33% from ’06\/’07.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was finishing up my dissertation in 2006. \u00a0The Great Recession was still two years away. \u00a0Nevertheless, there was talk about it being a tough job market for newly-minted sociologists and, like most everybody in my shoes, I was scared sh*tless about getting a job. It’s obvious now that I was extremely lucky to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,36,12498,76],"class_list":["post-52896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52933,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896\/revisions\/52933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/12\/11-500x333.png\" "\\"\\"")
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