Illusio80

Maybe I can help you if you have specific questions to ask. I know something about political sociology.

@Jessica80 this is an aside, but you're a qualitative person going to Cornell? (I didn't know they really existed at the graduate level.) Are you going to work with Mabel Berezin by any chance?

Thanks @sociologicals for the nice analysis. See you guys/gals here next year if necessary, but very best of luck as things wrap up. -- @Illusio80 As of today: Accepted: 0/8 Waitlisted: 1/8 Rejected: 2/8 Crickets: 5/8

Quite happily claiming a "hold" (waitlist) at Notre Dame. Finally, some halfway positive news!

Any Marxists / Gramscians out there want to have a fun, clean debate?

Have you read Fascist Spectacle by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi? Good book!

From their perspective, why not try to gather all possible information on candidates? It's almost like an extended group interview. The NSA might be (is) watching too. Anyway, I try to put my best foot forward around here. All I really wanted to encourage was some real sociological discussion, but I keep getting rather insulting feedback every time I do it.

No, my point is that the committees are looking at this too.

Cultural and political sociology (empirical), and cultural theory. I wrote my writing sample on liminality as it relates to 9/11. A previous paper examines Facebook data relating to Somali and Hmong communities and political communication. Also interested in Austrian political scandals. (I feel like I've blown my cover here and might as well just post my real name for everyone to see, but at this stage, whatever, I guess.) Hoping against hope that there is still a chance at Minnesota, Notre Dame, Virginia, Albany, or Yale. :-/

Congratulations to the person who got into UC Irvine!

I third this, though it's awfully hard not to try to read the tea leaves. If you look back through the previous years, though, some of the schools seem to have certain patterns (which may have been altered for all we know.) Notre Dame, for instance, seems to make use of a "hold pool," which differs I-don't-know-how from a waitlist.

That's great news, congratulations! (I hope there is more news forthcoming from UCSB...)

Fair enough. I have merely been trying to foment some actual, substantive, interesting discussion on this site. Try it; it might distract you from waiting for decisions. Don't any of you like to debate for sport? For the record, I have absolutely no hard feelings whatsoever. If I have offended anyone, I am sorry. I just enjoy a good discussion. Wishing you all sincerely the best of luck with your applications!

I can only conclude that you are only interested in my comments about Foucault and postmodernism, and not in what I consider a far more interesting issue, namely, uses of Bourdieu, and contrasting styles of ethnographic writing more broadly. Up to you. William James could be cool. Belief in the fact helping to create the fact. Dewey has also seen some resurgence in social theory.

No hard feelings at all, I just want to get to the truth of the matter. I cited five sociologists and so far nobody has engaged with that. If I also made incorrect blanket claims then I apologize. I think the closer we can get to concrete facts and examples, the more we can productively agree or disagree.