Recent trends in faculty employment in sociology

Using 1996-2000 data from the American Sociological Association Employment Bulletin, we examined trends in the availability of full-time, tenure-track faculty positions in sociology. In doing so, we found evidence that

1.	The assistance professor positions is, by far, the most heavily advertised;
2.	Applied of positions advertised per region do not uniformly correspond to population density; and
3.	The number of academic positions has increased over the past five years.

This information should be useful for both propective faculty members and employers as they attempt to navigate the academic marketplace.