Well the second claim is true even if the first claim is a bit of an exaggeration. For anybody who has ever turned a PhD dissertation into a book (uh, if you’re reading this, odds are you have), you may wonder, just how different was my book from my dissertation. Hopefully a lot, because dissertations almost always suck. My adviser,…
Tag: sociology
The problems of ethnography peer review
Way back when, I submitted an article to a prominent ethnography journal. Time passed. Nothing happened. I submitted the article elsewhere. It was reviewed, accepted and published this past summer. Yesterday I received a reply from the journal. Rejection. I have never been in the somewhat awkward a position to receive a rejection for a published article. (There were good…