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Down Market? Findings from the ASA Job Bank Survey.

Job seekers searching for assistant professor positions in AY 2008/09 were faced with a difficult job market, but not as bad as we expected. Click here.


What Can I do with a Master’s Degree in Sociology?

We are currently in the field with the first phase of a new longitudinal study of Master's candidates in sociology.

[Click here] to learn more about this study, purchase the report from the Task Force on the Master's Degree, download findings, and preview the 2009 student survey.



What Can I Do With A Bachelor's Degree in Sociology?


[Click here] visit our new webpage on the Bachelors and Beyond survey and learn more about the student, download briefs and questionnaires.

Research Briefs:
Idealists vs. Careerists: Graduate School Choices of Sociology Majors
[2.5MB]

Decreasing the Leak from the Sociology Pipeline: Social and Cultural Capital to Enhance the Post-BA Sociology Career.
[2.6MB]

AY 2006/07 Department Survey

We are currently analyzing findings from the Survey of Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs, AY 2006-07.



Click on the titles below to view the first two briefs in the series, What's Happening in Your Department?:

A Comparison of Findings From the 2001 and 2007 Department Surveys [PDF, 1MB]

Who's Teaching and How Much? [PDF, 1MB]

What's Happening in Your Department with Assessment?
[PDF, 1.32MB].


PhD +10

The latest follow-up to a longitudinal survey of the cohort of 1996-97 sociology PhDs examines career trajectories, scholarly productivity, family formation, and use of work-family policies. New findings are available in the research brief,  PhDs at Mid-Career [400KB].


Earlier findings are available in the following briefs:
Resources or Rewards? The Distribution of Work-Family Policies
[302 KB]
The Best Time to Have a Baby: Institutional Resources and Family Strategies Among Early Career Sociologists
[526 KB]
Gender in the Early Stages of the Sociological Career
[734 KB]
New Doctorates in Sociology: Professions Inside and Outside the Academy
[203 KB]


Satisfaction Among Doctoral Recipients

Currently analyzing data from two waves of the National Science Foundation's Survey of Doctoral Recipients to compare measures of professionalism and job satisfaction among academic and non-academic PhDs in sociology and other social and natural science disciplines.

Download related working papers from the Statistical Information section.


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Free Downloads

Read PDF versions of our latest briefs, releases, and other publications. Additional research briefs and articles are available here.

Briefs

What's Happening in  Your Department with Assessment?
[132MB]
Sociology Faculty Salaries AY 2008/09
[496KB]
Idealist v. Careerists: Graduate School Choices of Sociology Majors [2.4MB]
What's Happening in Your Department? Who's Teaching and How Much?
[1MB]
Decreasing the Leak from the Sociology Pipeline
  [3.85MB]
What's Happening in Your Department? A Comparison of Findings From the 2001 and 2007 Department Surveys
[744KB]
PhDs at Mid-Career
[400KB]
Too Many or Too Few PhDs?
[313 KB]
Pathways to Job Satisfaction
[147 KB]
How Does Our Membership Grow: Indicators of Change by Gender, Race and Ethnicity, and Degree Type, 2001 -2007  
[135 KB]
What are they Doing with a Bachelor's Degrees in Sociology?
[371 KB]
The Health of Sociology: Statistical Fact Sheets 2007
Sociology and Other Social Science Salary Increases: Past, Present, and Future
[177 KB]
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology Pipeline
[858 KB]
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Professionalism, Skills Match, and Job Satisfaction in Sociology [Power Point slide show, 338 KB]


VIEW ALL AVAILABLE BRIEFS

Publications

What Can I Do with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology?
[391 KB]
Departmental Survey 2001/02 reports: print and PDF versions

 

Statistical Information

New Working Papers Available!

Satisfaction With Doing Science: Convergence or a Two-Tiered System? 
 [106KB]

Work Satisfaction In Natural and Social Science: Convergence Through a Race, Gender, and Citizenship Lens
[80KB]
View the latest data on:
Employment Trend Data
Salaries
Race & Ethnicity
Degrees
Gender
Graduate enrollments
Sociology Programs
Additional trend data on the discipline and profession can be found by clicking here.

Data Resources

Web Based Data Tools on Sociology (and other Professions)
   
Assessment Forms
Phase I of the Bachelor's and Beyond Survey assesses what senior sociology majors have learned. [Click here] to view the Survey Monkey version of this questionnaire.
Phase II is an alumni survey used to assess whether graduates use the skills they have learned. [Click here] to view the questionnaire in PDF format.