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Having taken the GRE recently, things are now getting more specific for me. I scored a combined 1500 (about equally distributed between V and Q), which I hope is sufficient to get into some good schools. Still, the Sociology vs PoliSci question remains unanswered, and worse, I can

Hey there, in my quest for 3 strong letters of recommendation , I am running into a specific problem which seems to be very rare in the US, but very common in Europe. At my school, it is standard for students to draft a letter of recommendation, then giving it to a professor, who will make some changes and send the letter out afterwards. For you, that might sound like a dream come true; well, it is not. While I would expect a professor to know the important phrases that definitely should appear in a strong LOR, I myself don

Thanks for your help, natofone. That really encourages me, because I have a strong interest in quantitative methods, but almost none in rational choice modelling anymore...

me too

You mean the academic, or the non-acedemic job market? I expected at least the non-academic job market to be much more demanding for soc than for polisci phds... Was i wrong? (I

Thanks natofone, that seems to be a term for some of the literature I already mentioned (Tilly, Skocpol). But even on wikipedia, the list of authors includes sociologists as well as political scientists. Let me rephrase the question: Given an interest in doing research in that area, what would be reasons to choose, e.g. Political Science over Sociology (or the other way round) ? If the overlap is really that big, it seems like it all boils down to the original question "which department should I send the application to?", or, more generally, "what would be the most important criteria in making that choice".

Thanks a lot! I completely forgot; obviously, readings that clarify the issue are greatly appreciated! What would be corresponding readings for PoliSci? From econ, I

By historical, I definitely do not only mean statistical (that, I would call empiricist, probably). Rather, I took that to be a word for "analysis of specific historical social forms/processes as they change/unfold over time". Of course, this can be done in part by using statistics. To give you an example, Barrington Moore Jr

Will answer in the other thread, to make it less confusing

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=18126 I would love to hear the opinion of PoliSci people as well

Hello there, graduation is approaching (econ+philosophy), and now I am asking myself a question that I