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Whether you would be a good candidate is going to depend on whether what you want to study is best done under sociology. I can tell you that someone in my cohort has a similar background as you and is in the sociology track of the program. She had a really laid out idea of what she wanted to study, though, and chose this program because it straddled the line with geography and anthropology.

There were lockers at mine as well. (You are not allowed to take ANYTHING into the testing center.) The lockers were small, though, and the room wasn't secured during testing. People were in and out going to other testing rooms. Definitely call them and find out.

Alex Golub treats Diamond pretty fairly here: http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/4/anthropology-footnoted-jared-diamonds-the-world-until-yesterday In geography he is problematic because he comes to conclusions most geographers would never make. Not because they haven't been considered and he is some radical stirring up the pot of academia but because they have been made and long-since abandoned. He just offers a sort of nicer, more humanistic face to environmental determinism. I like Lucy Jarosz response to Guns, Germs, and Steel (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1467-8330.2003.00356.x/abstract).

Rigging the Game - Michael Schwalbe The Anti-Politics Machine - James Ferguson Sweetness and Power - Sydney Mintz The History of Sexuality Vol. 1 - Michel Foucault Europe and the People Without History - Eric Wolf I can think of others later but these are the first that come to mind. I, personally, hate Jared Diamond but think he is worth reading.

Have you looked at the research being done in various disciplines along the lines that you want? You have really broad interests and you need to do some serious reading about what's already been done. With my background (in anthropology and geography) when I hear people say things like "how people think" my first question is "which 'people'?" When I hear "how it drives their actions" I think, "which actions, in what context, in what locations?" If you want to go to graduate school, these are the sort of things you need to think about. I don't think you really need to pick a discipline for the sake of picking one but instead figure it out based on whose work you like the most or go to a program that is really open about the courses you take. Not caring too much about disciplinary boundaries is actually one of the reasons I've chosen my program. My first semester I will be taking an interdisciplinary social science theory course, a sociology course, and a GIS course and all will count toward fulfilling my requirements and all will further my research.

I've driven my cats on a few long distance trips and they were alright. I put them in a larger carrier so they wouldn't be separated and was able to get them some OTC anxiety drops that helped. I took away their food and water a few hours before leaving, also. I made sure they could see me and whenever I stopped I'd open the door of the carrier to pet them and make sure they weren't dehydrated. Before unpacking when I arrived I played with them so they knew things were alright. This was based on advice from the vet.

I've requested a grade change in the past but it was under a bit different circumstances -- I wanted an essay exam regraded because I felt that I answered the prompt and was graded poorly because she disagreed with the theoretical perspective I used. I went to the professor and made my complaint and she was able to have another professor regrade the exam (went from a 43 -> 87 out of 100). She told me if I had gone to her any later then I would have had to request the change through the school and it would need to be approved by the college. If you have a legitimate complaint get it taken care of as soon as possible to avoid as much bureaucracy as possible.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed is fantastic. I'm reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being right now. Next is History of the Guyanese Working People then another fiction book. Probably Equality by Edward Bellamy.

It's going to depend on the program. Below is the rejection email I got from Clark's Geography program -- one of the most competitive in the country. I was able to get more information by contacting the graduate secretary.

In my program if you are a PhD student that is what you put regardless of your year (until you are a candidate). The masters is awarded upon request at any point after completing 36 credits and all of the required classes but it is not the degree you are in progress for so it isn't listed on any CVs that I've seen in the department. If you request the master's (so you can adjunct at the local JC or if you are going to transfer, for example) then you add it. Mine is listed like this and I've been told by people reviewing my CV that is correct for the style: 2013 – Present | Ph.D. Global and Sociocultural Studies (Geography) Florida International University Miami, Fl For reference my Bachelor's is listed as: 2011 – 2013 | Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Anthropology and Geography (Double Major) – Summa Cum Laude Florida International University Miami, Fl The date system you use varies by the style. If just put 2013 next to my BA I would put "In Progress" or "2019 (expected)".

There are ranked lists around online. They will generally have schools like Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Michigan, Chicago, Columbia, etc. That being said, you shouldn't just apply to the top schools overall but the ones that have people you want to work with. I would suggest finding people who are doing work similar to what you want to do (you should know them better than we do because you're reading them) and checking out their programs. Pick programs that have a variety of people you would be happy working with. Also make sure these people are still researching those things by checking out their most recent publications and reading them.

Thanks! I bookmarked the page and will be going through the newsletter. Hopefully I remember to check it.

If I wasn't accepted anywhere I was going to start a post-bacc certificate at a university related to my research (probably African and African-Diaspora Studies or Environmental Studies.) This would give me some graduate level credits and engagement with more material so I could strengthen my application.

I don't think so but it's possible. I only get one set of travel funding per AY and I'll be going to DOPE and AAG. I'll probably use my funding for DOPE.

Can you only join through the ASA or can you join directly? I'm already a member of AAA and AAG but this section is related to my research.

It generally has to be actively disturbed. Don't go tearing down walls or messing with the pipes inside of them. If they want to do any renovations while you live there make sure you get something in writing about the possibility of being provided a place to live during abatement and removal.

Asbestos is only a problem when it is disturbed and becomes airborne.

I think it's hard to say with any kind of certainty how the (continuing) result(s) of the Occupy movement are being understood. Here in Miami, where Occupy has all but completely died, the attitude is positive. It brought together a number of leftists who were geographically and socially isolated and has created vast networks of activists and organizers. A good example can be seen in the growth of a local anti-capitalist organization and the increased participation in events put on by a local anarchist group. It also acted as a catalyst for the reformation of the Miami IWW. The effects on political and economic discourse, and how good or bad these are, really is always going to boil down to ideology. A revolutionary anarchist group couldn't care less about the increasing visibility of Keynesianism but a progressive might see this as a sign of improvement. Both such groups were represented in Occupy groups across the country.

It's worth picking up and thumbing through if you want to buy it. B&N around here seems toalways hhave a copy.

Not really a new book and not really anything profound either. To me, it seems kind of like a haphazard collection of works freely available on the internet so the editor could make a few bucks off the movement. Some of the articles/chapters are good, some are bad, most are just kind of meh. It seemed as though most of the authors had little actual involvement with what was/is going on and decided to project their thoughts and, in some cases, ideologies on what they heard.

Call ETS and tell them the school has not received the scores. They will tell you the batch number then. The same thing happened to me.

ETS will give you the batch number your scores were sent with. You can use this number to talk to the university graduate admissions office and they should be able to find your report from that. If they never got it ETS will send it again for you free of charge.

I was inducted with biologists, chemists, and physicists. It may have to do with how your school is organized but it's not a limitation of the organization

This is why I didn't join Phi Kappa Phi. They didn't seem like they had much to say about local organization meetings even though I live in a big city. Phi Beta Kappa, on the other hand, was able to put me in contact with the local association and in talking to them I felt it would have been worth the money just to go to those gatherings and meet people. If there wasn't an active local association that I could take part in then I don't think I would have felt the same.

I know most anthro programs don't care about your writing score at all. Same for sociology and geography.. I imagine other social sciences are the same. To me, your scores look fine. No need to retake.