Are You Satisfied? PhD Education and Faculty Taste for Prestige: Limits of the Prestige Value System

Autor/inn/en	Morrison, Emory; Rudd, Elizabeth; Picciano, Joseph; Nerad, Maresi
Titel	Are You Satisfied? PhD Education and Faculty Taste for Prestige: Limits of the Prestige Value System
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 52 (2011) 1, S.24-46 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-010-9184-1
Schlagwörter	Reference Groups; Job Satisfaction; Reputation; Social Sciences; Graduates; Values; Social Capital; College Faculty; Models; Higher Education; Hypothesis Testing; Labor Market; Socialization; Tenure; Regression (Statistics); Human Capital; Doctoral Degrees + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reference group; Bezugsgruppe; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Graduate; Absolvent; Absolventin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Wertbegriff; Sozialkapital; Fakultät; Analogiemodell; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Humankapital; Doctoral degree; Doktorgrad
Abstract	This paper empirically evaluates Caplow and McGee's (The academic marketplace, 1958) model of academia as a prestige value system (PVS) by testing several hypotheses about the relationship between prestige of faculty appointment and job satisfaction. Using logistic regression models to predict satisfaction with several job domains in a sample of more than 1,000 recent social science PhD graduates who hold tenure-track or tenured faculty positions, we find that the relationship between prestige of faculty appointment and job satisfaction is modified by PhD program prestige. Graduates of high prestige PhD programs value prestige more highly and graduates of low prestige programs value salary more highly. We explain our findings by incorporating reference group theory and a theory of taste formation into our model of the academic PVS, which identifies PhD programs as sites of socialization to different tastes for prestige (a process of cultural transmission) in addition to their well recognized role in transmission of human and social capital. We discuss practical and theoretical implications of our findings in relation to efforts to measure PhD program quality and to understand the structure of academic labor markets. (As Provided).
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