Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universities

Abstract 12. This research consisted of a qualitative case study on how a group of early-career doctórate holders in engineering (N=10) found academic positions in the Chilean academia. The analysis particularly explored how their social class of origin and their academic networks influenced their o...

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Autor principal: Chiappa,Roxana
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Publicado: Consejo Nacional de Educación 2020
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-456520200001002052020-09-08Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universitiesChiappa,Roxana Social Class Networks Academic Careers Abstract 12. This research consisted of a qualitative case study on how a group of early-career doctórate holders in engineering (N=10) found academic positions in the Chilean academia. The analysis particularly explored how their social class of origin and their academic networks influenced their opportunities of getting an academic job. Findings show that social class of origin mediates the academic network configuration of academic-job seekers through unequal opportunities of completing their undergraduate degrees in prestigious Chilean universities with high research capacity, and subsequently, the unequal opportunities of studying a doctorate degree at top- ranked foreign universities. Only upper social class candidates who received their doctorate degrees from foreign highly prestigious universities were capable of securing positions at the top research-intensive Chilean universities. Overall, findings show that academic networks with professors who are knowledgeable of hiring processes are crucial at the moment of seeking academic jobs in the Chilean higher education system.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessConsejo Nacional de EducaciónCalidad en la educación n.52 20202020-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-45652020000100205en10.31619/caledu.n52.760
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topic Social Class
Networks
Academic Careers
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Networks
Academic Careers
Chiappa,Roxana
Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universities
description Abstract 12. This research consisted of a qualitative case study on how a group of early-career doctórate holders in engineering (N=10) found academic positions in the Chilean academia. The analysis particularly explored how their social class of origin and their academic networks influenced their opportunities of getting an academic job. Findings show that social class of origin mediates the academic network configuration of academic-job seekers through unequal opportunities of completing their undergraduate degrees in prestigious Chilean universities with high research capacity, and subsequently, the unequal opportunities of studying a doctorate degree at top- ranked foreign universities. Only upper social class candidates who received their doctorate degrees from foreign highly prestigious universities were capable of securing positions at the top research-intensive Chilean universities. Overall, findings show that academic networks with professors who are knowledgeable of hiring processes are crucial at the moment of seeking academic jobs in the Chilean higher education system.
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title Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universities
title_short Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universities
title_full Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universities
title_fullStr Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universities
title_full_unstemmed Seeking faculty jobs: exploring the relationship between academic’s social class of origin and hiring networks in chilean universities
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