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what does success mean in higher education? – a guest post by mikalia marial lemonik arthur | grouchosis

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Just another WordPress.com site. Neoliberalism and the university. What does success mean in higher education? 8211; a guest post by mikalia marial lemonik arthur. June 15, 2015. This is a project to keep track of. Very TARGET relevant. Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur. Is an associate professor of sociology at Rhode Island College. She is the author of Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Neoliberalism and the university. Enter your comment here.

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misfortunes highlight how lucky i am – scatterplot

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The unruly darlings of public sociology. Misfortunes highlight how lucky i am. Husband broke his foot on Sunday. Not playing hockey, but having brunch. Unfortunate. We went to the urgent care clinic, which is free (fortunately), because we live in Canada (fortunately), because I got a tenure-track job here (fortunately). While at the clinic, Husband got an x-ray and an air cast (cool! And he also picked up a flu bug. It wasn’t that. April 28, 2009. April 28, 2009 at 11:54 am. April 28, 2009 at 9:09 pm.

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where do I get these ideas anyway? – scatterplot

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The unruly darlings of public sociology. Where do I get these ideas anyway? Apologies for monopolizing Scatter blogging. I’ve been reading Arlie Russell Hochschild’s books, The Time Bind and The Second Shift. They are depressing. Not only are workers overworked, they overwork themselves–they don’t. To take advantage of family-friendly policies, they. Why are they so immobile? What is wrong with me? And it seems to me that I have to start with changing myself. Anyway, back to work for me for a few more ho...

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organizational ethnography and pseudonyms: at what cost? | orgtheory.net

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Organizational ethnography and pseudonyms: at what cost? 8216;Tis the season to talk about behind- the-scenes techniques and public presentation of ethnography. At the Eastern Sociological Society meeting this past spring, Colin Jerolmack gave a compelling talk about the convention of ethnographic pseudonyms, based on a paper he’s writing with Alexandra Murphy, slated for a special issue of Sociological Methods and Research. In my ethnography of diversity management at Starr Corporation a Fortune 500 mul...

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the increasing penalty for not going to college – scatterplot

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The unruly darlings of public sociology. The increasing penalty for not going to college. Sociologists and economists have long written about the college-non college wage gap. People who attended college, and especially college graduates, tend to make more money than those who did not. The way this gap is usually discussed is in terms of the returns to a college degree or the college premium. For example, Hout’s (2012) excellent Annual Review. For both of these reasons, it seems like talking about the re...

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if your business model requires that your employees not be recognized as employees, maybe you need a new model? – scatterplot

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The unruly darlings of public sociology. If your business model requires that your employees not be recognized as employees, maybe you need a new model? A California court just ruled that Uber drivers are employees. Here’s the (pro-Uber) coverage from Business Insider. Note how the story accepts Uber’s versions of the facts about who counts as an employee:. I hope the ruling does stick. It seems to me that if your business model requires that your employees not be recognized as such by regulators, ma...

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why does college cost so much? – scatterplot

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The unruly darlings of public sociology. Why does college cost so much? If you read popular coverage of higher ed, one of the biggest recurring questions is “why does college cost so much? Do a nice job of laying out some of the contours of that diversity. Applying that basic insight suggests that the question “why does college cost so much? Lavish expenditures on amenities, higher levels of federal financial aid, and declines in state support) may differ radically. For example, a report from Demos.

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southern heritage and hate can’t be independent factors – scatterplot

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The unruly darlings of public sociology. Southern heritage and hate can’t be independent factors. LJ Zigerell, a political scientist and frequent commenter here, has a new post on The Monkey Cage. Nevertheless, the results from these two surveys suggest a more qualified conclusion about the correlates of support for the Confederate battle flag. Surely racial attitudes reflect one such factor, but Southern heritage appears to be another. What do you all think? July 7, 2015. July 7, 2015. You are correct t...

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ask a scatterbrain: managing workflow. – scatterplot

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The unruly darlings of public sociology. Ask a scatterbrain: managing workflow. As I have admitted before. For a long while, these bad habits only affected me (and the occasional collaborator). It was. Wasted time and effort. Now, though, expectations are changing and this type of disorganization can make or break a career. I think about my dissertation data and related files, strewn about floppy disks and disparate folders, and I feel both shame and fear. What would I do if someone asked for all my work?