Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate. How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter.

Autor/inn/en	Roscigno, Vincent J.; Lee, Elizabeth M.; Hurst, Allison L.; Brady, David; King, Colby R.; Abraham Jack, Anthony; Delaney, Kevin J.; McDermott, Monica; Muñoz, José; Johnson, Wendi
Titel	Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate. How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Mobilität und Ungleichheit in der Professorenschaft: Wie und warum der Hintergrund der ersten Generation und der Arbeiterklasse eine Rolle spielt.
Quelle	In: Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world, (2023) 9, S. 1-30 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2378-0231
DOI	10.1177/23780231231181859
Schlagwörter	Bildungsmobilität; Soziale Ungleichheit; Soziale Herkunft; Soziale Mobilität; Kind; Arbeiter; Arbeiterklasse; Migrationshintergrund; Berufsprestige; Studium; Hochschullehrer; Studienortwahl; Soziologie; Akademiker; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; RACE; USA
Abstract	"Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, ? i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compared to other academic fields. Our analyses, which draw on unique survey items and open-ended qualitative materials from nearly 1,000 academic sociologists, reveal significant background divergences in academic job attainment, tied partly to educational background. Moreover, and especially unique and important, findings demonstrate significant consequences across several dimensions of inequality including compensation and economic precarity, professional visibility, and isolation at departmental, college or university, and professional levels. We conclude by highlighting how our discussion and results contribute in important ways to broader sociological concerns surrounding mobility, group disadvantage, and social closure." The study refers to the period 2019-2019. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1