Careers of the Professoriate

Download or read book Careers of the Professoriate written by Johannes Angermuller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in their fields, and yet they follow pathways which are anything but unique. Drawing from a unique data set, the authors analyse the trajectories of the almost 2000 linguists and sociologists who hold full professorships in Germany, France and the UK in 2015. With a background in social theory, they reveal models, structures and rules that organise the professional lives and biographies of the most senior academics. This book presents the results of a systematic empirical study, which will be of interest to specialists in higher education studies as well as to linguists and sociologists, and to all academics more generally.