THE STUDENT-FACULTY RATIO IN GRADUATE PROGRAMS OF SELECTED DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIOLOGY.

The analysis of the student-faculty ratio and of its effect on graduate programs of Sociology has been relatively neglected, despite strong professional interest in factors associated with the production of sociology doctorates. This interest has its roots both in administrative concern about the allocation of staff resources within department programs and in theoretical issues of interest to sociological specializations, such as formal organization and sociologist of education, knowledge, professions, and related areas. The study discussed in this article has utilized some recent data on the relation between numbers of graduate students and the number of graduate staff in departments, tries to perform such a breakdown in order to explain patterns of graduate instruction; in universities in the United States. The data found in the 1965 were published in the Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology published by the American Sociological Association. There is, no precise definition of full time student, mainly as a consequence of variation within departments in the definition of the status of teaching and research assistants.