What can you do with Sociology/Psychology/Cultural Studies/Social Anthropology post-grad qualification

[onebatmother]

Apart from pat self on back?

I am thinking of retraining but no idea about jobs. Those are the things I'm considering studying - what REAL ACTUAL JOBS might I get with a postgrad MA/PHD in them?

I mean ones that pay money. Any money. But must be money.

Thanks dearies.

And I was being jocular, swedes! But I genuinely still don't really understand it - Stanford encyclopedia says "That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism."

And no to Christian name - why?

Thready - I emailed you - did you get it?

Well quite, Thready.

I meant to ask you yesterday, Threadie. Why is your DH's job so family unfriendly? I would have expected it to score high on that front.

Ballina

Stanford encyc -- the google landing-point of first resort!

Yes, got the email Habb. Lovely to get it. Thanks v much. Have spent day inhaling the fine fresh drizzle of Northumberland, so not replied yet but am looking forward to doing so.

Swedes, v long hours (no contracted number so no upper limit), mass of bureaucracy to hurdle, harsh RAE targets, too many students.

Well, shame to say I'm going to have a cup of tea and go to bed - have to read book on trauma (as in broken legs, etc) and then be the bureaucrat who messes with the family life of academics! Actually, I'm very very good at shielding them from all the crap that comes our way - it's v. handy to have been one and be married to one...

Isn't thiscool, though? Huzzah.

If you can define postmodernity, you were definitely there [metagrin]

Actually, I think ?I define postmodern as incredulity toward meta-narratives,? is pretty good.

What's not to like?

enjoy 'communication'? Check.
Understand that 'communication' is more meaningful than that which is communicated? Check.
Are objects in mirror actually closer than they appear? Well yes they are, honey. Check.
Cocaine addiction: Well, yes! Check...me into rehab!

That's the PoMo ABC!

I do know what pm means in a boring prosaic way, but I don't know anything about the continental wankthinkers with whom the term is associated, and what it means for them. So, go on, tell me about meta-narratives and the incredulity thing. In a sentence. I'd like to know, but I can't get beyond the jargon and planned-incomprehensibility.

I know from fuck.

But the first bit is quite eay...

that we should mistrust the stories that we tell ourselves through media (eg Eastenders) about the stories we as a culture have always told ourselves (eg 'truths' like grandmas are nice)

So you start with Enders, and proceed quickly to consumption (which is huge and extends well beyond advertising to the consumption of 'authentic' expressions of identity) to the very idea of identity. A novel 'authentic cultural artefact" could v easily be a ...

Fuck I'm lost. But basically, you regard everything with amused mistrust. Do a face like this and you'll be TOTALLY FINE at the Postmodernist's Hop.

at your emoticonography of postmodernism.

Thanks. So that's the meta-narrative bit.

I'm going to have to read something really aren't I.

(I love 'I know from fuck'.)

So did the Gulf war happen on not?

Yes it did happen. But where the action resided, since events were mediated by several 'layers' of screens for both the actor/soldier and the audience/rest of us - and whether those screens were, in fact, the action/meaning - is a whole 'nother question. And one I am far too busy to consider now

God, were you actually listening in those lectures??!!

Did you also get to watch Sans Soleil?

I just remembered - I taped Redacted too the other night. Figting the grand narratives! Discourse studies in film?

What about this as a corrective?The Anti-Chomsky Reader Not yet seen on any humanties syllabus, I think - yet!

Gulf War soldier gets shot; bones explode; soldier screams in agony.

"Don't worry," says nearby cameraman. "I wasn't filming."

"Thank Christ," says soldier, jumping up.

lol Threadworm

Though I'm not sure if I trace smell of tacit surrender to the patricacy in your discourse with your use of the phrase 'Thanks Christ' - Christ with a capital letter too ...

S'ok. The soldier was ironising his narrative, God symbolising the gulf between appearance and reality.

All I took from 3 years of applying the rampant theories of Baudrillard and Derrida to a lace doily was that I could watch Beverly Hills 90210 with the same intellectual rigour as contemplating this Gulf War.

Whilst wearing an ironic jumper.

Yes onebat please do a phd in porn. I'd love to be able to say that at parties. Be prepared for loads of men saying 'Ah well i've got one of those...'

[obviously has nothing useful to say whatsoever]

Gossip Girl. Isn't that a post modern take on Beverly Hills 90210? [reveals full extent of intellectual impoverishment]

Big LOL at threadworm.

Lenin - at ESTJ. Marvellous. I feel I know you a little better now which is lovely. So thank you for doing that. I suspected you would be a J at the end. Funnily enough, I read your type's personality traits and they don't fit me at all. So maybe you are marginally expressed to ESTJ type.... you can normally tell by your scores (I think they are expressed in percentages). For example, 1% one way or the other will make you either an E or an I. So I think you have to look at the scores as well as the type. My ENFP is heavily expressed for all four letters so that makes it probably less likely that any of the other types are going to be any sort of fit.

Threadworm and Onebat - please do Myers Briggs tests.

DP is INTJ which is absolutely him to a T. And funnily enough INTJ is my ideal relationship type. Apparently all management consultants are INTJ.

Oh yes dammit I was going to type Gossip Girl which is the modern day equivalent of huddling around the one tv in college on a tuesday night.