The Limits of Academic Merit in Chile: How Social Class of Origin Influences the Careers of Academics with Doctorate Degrees.

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Autor/Urheber	Chiappa, Roxana Patricia
Titel	The Limits of Academic Merit in Chile: How Social Class of Origin Influences the Careers of Academics with Doctorate Degrees.
Quelle	(2019) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Career; Chile; Inequality; Networks; Professors; Social Class; Community college education; Social structure; Sociology; Education - Seattle
Abstract	Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Washington, 2019 ; Only a handful of empirical studies have examined the effects of social class on the careers of doctorate holders. Through a mixed-method approach, this dissertation analyzes to what extent and how the social class of origin of faculty with doctorate degrees influences their opportunities to compete for the most prestigious and highest paid positions in Chile. This country is one of the emerging economies with high degrees of social and income inequalities that has adhered to the principles of building human capital and its knowledge economy to increase its economic productivity. In the last decade, Chile has awarded 10,000 doctorate fellowships, which has allowed that a more significant number of individuals from low social class acquire doctorate studies. This rapid expansion of doctorate fellowships has increased the number of doctorate holders seeking academic jobs, the primary employment sector for this group. The three articles contained in this dissertation reveal that social class of origin of faculty in Chile is still a relevant category to predict the opportunities of getting positions at the most prestigious universities and highest paid jobs. The first article quantitatively estimates the indirect and direct effects of social class of origin on faculty income. The second article qualitatively examines the procedures of faculty hiring at departments of economics and industrial engineering to understand whether hiring practices reproduce social class of faculty candidates during such proceedings. Lastly, the third article looks at the strategies that doctorate holders from different social class backgrounds use to find tenure-track faculty positions.
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