Academic Hiring Networks and Institutional Prestige: A Case Study of Canadian Sociology.
Academic Hiring Networks and Institutional Prestige: A Case Study of Canadian Sociology.
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10.1111/cars.12252
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2019-08
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Andrew D. Nevin
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作者：
Andrew D. Nevin
本文通过其博士交流网络考察了加拿大社会学的学术就业市场。使用 2015 年受聘教员的原始数据集（N = 1,157），我绘制了机构之间的招聘关系并分析了观察到的网络结构。我的研究结果表明，机构声望可能是该网络中的一种组织力量，反映出来自少数集中的高地位机构的教职人员数量不成比例，以及招聘模式的主要向下流动。然而，需要进一步调查来了解声望在加拿大高等教育中的作用，此前加拿大高等教育被描述为具有扁平的社会结构。这需要关注加拿大细分学术领域内的机构声望、学术能力和院系规模之间的相互关系。总的来说，这项研究旨在鼓励集体自我反思，并激发关于我们学科中基于地位的不平等的讨论。
This article examines the academic job market for Canadian sociology through its PhD exchange network. Using an original data set of employed faculty members in 2015 (N = 1,157), I map the hiring relationships between institutions and analyze the observed network structure. My findings show that institutional prestige is a likely organizing force within this network, reflective of a disproportionate number of faculty coming from a few centralized high-status institutions, as well as predominantly downward flows in hiring patterns. However, further investigation is needed to understand the role of prestige in Canadian higher education, which has been previously characterized as having a flat social structure. This requires attention toward the interrelationships between institutional prestige, scholarly competence, and department size situated within a segmented academic field in Canada. Overall, this study aims to encourage collective self-reflection and motivate discourse about status-based inequalities in our own discipline.