smokeypup

Honestly, you will have an extremely hard time on the market with an interdisciplinary degree. Only interdisciplinary prorgrams will hire you, and there are far fewer of those than soc programs. Sociologists only hire sociologists (with rare exceptions), whereas interdisciplinary programs regularly hire sociologists. It may seem like a wonderful intellectual opportunity now. But the job market is rough, and it will be very hard to get a job with an interdisciplinary degree. How many (and what %) of graduates in the interdisciplinary program have gotten academic jobs in the last 5 years? And what kinds of jobs? I think a top 5 soc program with relatively good fit is going to give you far more opportunities than the interdisciplinary program.

Honestly, you will have an extremely hard time on the market with an interdisciplinary degree. Only interdisciplinary prorgrams will hire you, and there are far fewer of those than soc programs. Sociologists only hire sociologists (with rare exceptions), whereas interdisciplinary programs regularly hire sociologists. It may seem like a wonderful intellectual opportunity now. But the job market is rough, and it will be very hard to get a job with an interdisciplinary degree. How many (and what %) of graduates in the interdisciplinary program have gotten academic jobs in the last 5 years? And what kinds of jobs? I think a top 5 soc program with relatively good fit is going to give you far more opportunities than the interdisciplinary program.

Honestly, you will have an extremely hard time on the market with an interdisciplinary degree. Only interdisciplinary prorgrams will hire you, and there are far fewer of those than soc programs. Sociologists only hire sociologists (with rare exceptions), whereas interdisciplinary programs regularly hire sociologists. It may seem like a wonderful intellectual opportunity now. But the job market is rough, and it will be very hard to get a job with an interdisciplinary degree. How many (and what %) of graduates in the interdisciplinary program have gotten academic jobs in the last 5 years? And what kinds of jobs? I think a top 5 soc program with relatively good fit is going to give you far more opportunities than the interdisciplinary program.

If you want a good book on stata, which seems to be the norm in top departments, I would recommend this book:
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/regression-models-categorical-dependent-variables/

It gives you the logic of the models and the stata commands for categorical models, post estimation and presentation of data.

If you can, I would definitely go to a good soc program. Criminology and criminal justice programs will always hire sociologists, but sociology programs will rarely hire criminology-trained phds--pure bias. There are a ton of crim jobs available right now, and 99% of them are in soc departments.

If you can, I would definitely go to a good soc program. Criminology and criminal justice programs will always hire sociologists, but sociology programs will rarely hire criminology-trained phds--pure bias. There are a ton of crim jobs available right now, and 99% of them are in soc departments.

UC Berkeley soc department a few years didn't hide the other CC's who had been rejected. The DGS emailed everyone blaming the department secretary--shit always rolls down hill.