Social and Institutional Stratification in Access to the Professoriate
Social and Institutional Stratification in Access to the Professoriate
Friday, 11 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: SJES007 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC28 Social Stratification (host committee) Language: English
Recent studies suggest that the professoriate has remained disproportionately accessible to the socioeconomically privileged, e.g. faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a PhD (Morgan et al., 2022) and most US professors receive their training at a small number of elite universities (Nowogrodzki, 2023). This concentration of privilege perpetuates limited socioeconomic and racial diversity within the profession which likely shapes their scholarship and reproduction. This session seeks papers that address the mechanisms of access to the professoriate, with a particular focus on tenure-track positions at elite institutions. Of special interest are:
- The role of social and/or institutional stratification in shaping access to the professoriate.
- The ways in which country or disciplinary differences influence access to faculty positions.
Both quantitative and qualitative papers are welcome.
Format: Regular session
Session Organizer:
Oral Presentations