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  1. Reading gradcafe on a regular basis was pretty unhealthy, and for me the best thing was to just check once or twice a week. Hard the first few days but man the anxiety goes way down.
  2. One of the exciting things about denials is there's so many ways to get them. I got a letter in the mail and went hummm a remarkably small piece of mail, just a single sheet of paper in this here envelope. Instant flashback to applying to undergrad schools it was kinda nice not gonna lie.
  3. I find like 90% of my reading through finishing an article, filing it in a Cool-Article-That-I-Liked pile or a I-Stopped-Three-Pages-In-Because-They-Talked-About-Hegel pile, and then digging through the bibliographies of the articles I liked. People who I've thrown in the Good Pile a bunch of times are Jeffrey Olick, Gary Alan Fine, John Hagan, Joachim Savelsberg, James Wertsch, and a bunch of others. I'm pretty satisfied reading about classical theorists rather than actually reading them. I'd prefer putting most of my effort into the research people have done improving on those classical theories. How bout you?
  4. The Sociology of Culture is definitely used in some areas (Greggs, Dani and Topp 1993, Dover 1995, Dover and Topp 1996, Randolph 1999, George and Paul 2007), however I think Cultural Sociology is making a comeback and interestingly has some defectors these days (Topp and Donalds 2006, Rudy, Rudy and Timm 2008, Timm and Heinzenberger 2008, Bentz 2010, 2015). But I think, despite its weakness in some areas, Sociocultural Cultiology is I think the most useful definition and lends itself well to operationalization and clear typologies of phenomenon so that's what I think is the best in actual practice (Dooring 2010, 2012, 2014, Geoff and Trainor 2015, Nietz and Goldman 2015, 2016)
  5. Wouldn't say a bad writer but it's really clear it was written 50 years ago, it felt needlessly complex. I dunno maybe it seemed like it veered too close to philosophy writing, if that makes any sense?
  6. Yeah absolutely. I applied (extremely) broadly but Minnesota is one of the schools I'd fit in well at as far as specific areas of interest go. Gabrielle Ferrales, Alejandro Baer, and Joachim Savelsberg would be great to work with. Geertz huh. I really like Geertz but man The Interpretation of Cultures was a slog. It read like it was published in the 1870s.
  7. Alka Seltzer huh, that's very neo-Weberian with some Durkheimian post-structuralist touches. I also sense some Geertzian influences??
  8. hope so my dude cause man I mega tanked my GPA with calc and language courses Anyone know when schools sent out acceptances/rejections? Also, this waiting has me on Nexium, what heartburn relief are you all using?
  9. Yoo 169 verbal, 162 quant, 4.5 analytic writing (except at Duke where I have a 5.5 from another GRE), 3.1 GPA, good research experience, strong SOP. Looking to study sociology of knowledge, culture, genocide and war studies, collective memory, media, and interested in content analysis for methods. Applied to a lot of places, and I can slowly feel my stress levels rising.
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