Asa Section Demographics
12 September 2018
The American Sociological Association released some data on its special-interest sections, including some demographic breakdowns. Dan Hirschman wrote a post on Scatterplot looking at some of the breakdowns. Here are some more. I was interested in two things: first, the relative prevalence of Student and Retired members across sections, and second the distribution of women across sections. About 53% of all ASA members are women, substantially higher than some other social sciences and many other academic disciplines.
A Field Guide to Social Scientists
24 August 2018
I blame the fact that it’s the last Friday before the semester starts.
A Field Guide to Social Scientists
Recent Work
- “Transformative Treatments.” Noûs 52: 320–335. Abstract pdf
- “Visualizing the Baby Boom.” Socius 4: 1-2 Abstract pdf
- “The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science.” Abstract pdf
- Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Forthcoming. Princeton University Press. Preorder on Amazon Abstract
- “By the Numbers.” European Journal of Sociology (2017), 58:512-519 Abstract pdf
Current Teaching
- Social Theory from Marx to Parsons, August–December 2018. now on