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I recently did a talk on the broad strokes of my dissertation at the Canadian Sociological Association annual conference in Calgary, Alberta. My colleague @mikelgranzow was kind enough to record the talk and sync it up with my slides. I include an extended abstract below and you can watch the slideshow/talk here.

A while back I was working in an academic department where my job was to support faculty research, answer methodological questions, design projects, write grants, and so on. One faculty member asked me a question regarding mixed methods research. My response was to clarify the purpose of research and method more generally. Below I include a revised version of my response.

“What is sociology? What are you going to do with that once you're finished your degree?”