Male Social Scientists: Lives After Sixty1

Havighurst, Robert J.; McDonald, W.J.; Maeulen, Leo; Mazel, Joseph

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“…They came from a universe of 779 men who principally had had academic careers. (The population and sampling procedure are described in Havighurst et al (1979).) The response rate is slightly over 50%, but the exact number is impossible to ascertain because of difficulties in securing current addresses, the potential respondent's health, and an unknown (but not insignificant) mortality rate.…”

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Career patterns of U.S. male academic social scientists

Blackburn

Havighurst

1979

High Educ

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Seventy-four U.S. male academic social scientists provided career stage data. Alt were born between 1893 and 1903. The subjects were divided into four groups on the basis of their scholarly article productivity after age 59. Spilerman's conceptualization of work history guided the analysis. To a lesser extent, adult development theory (e.g., Hall and Nougaim, 1968) was also examined.Critical career events were content analyzed and compared. Distinct career paths through and beyond retirement emerged. Among other things, the active publishers have had a less varied career in terms of the different academic roles possible in colleges and universities. Obtaining the Ph.D. followed by research in one setting well beyond retirement characterize these individuals. The moderately active and inactive publishers began their work history with high school teaching and administration, later had college posts as department heads or deanships, and reported sharper separation from academic work at age 65.The importance of early start and place of work support Spilerman's contention of the organization shaping the individual. Career events did not cluster at either chronological or career ages and hence fail to corroborate adult development theorists.

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Career patterns of U.S. male academic social scientists

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Havighurst

1979

High Educ

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“…With respect t o individuals, the new Ph.D. who does not get into the system of higher education may very well be lost forever as far as knowledge production is concerned. Numerous studies (Raymond, 1967;Clemente, 1973;Cole and Cole, 1973;Havighurst and others, 1976;Cameron, 1978;Blackburn, Behymer, and Hall, in press, Blackburn and Havighurst, in preparation) demonstrate the relationship between early publication and total career scholarly contribution. The findings are based on data from nearly every discipline, include measures of quality as well as quantity of output, and hold true irrespective of sex.…”

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“…Furthermore, the entire concept of early retirement is contrary to the best evidence on individual productivity among academics. Havighurst (1976) found that productivity remains extraordinarily high well beyond retirement. It is also against a national trend toward raising, not lowering, the mandatory retirement age.…”

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Part‐time faculty and the production of knowledge

Blackburn¹

1978

New Drctns for Instit Rsrch

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“…With respect to academics, there have been a number of US surveys of the extent of post-retirement academic activity, but response rates tend to be low, and sample sizes small, and restricted to one college or university (Dorfman, 1980(Dorfman, , 1981Roman & Taietz, 1967) or one discipline (Havighurst et al, 1979;Roman & Taietz, 1967;Rowe, 1973) or to the male gender (Fillenbaum & Maddox, 1974;Havighurst et al, 1979;Snow & Havighurst, 1977) or to one university rank, e.g. college presidents (Snow & Havighurst, 1977).…”

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“…On the other hand, it could be argued that they may constitute an exception, since their work is likely to have been a central and valued part of their life, offering many intrinsic rewards. However, US studies have all found that, just as in the general population, around 70-80% of retired academics are 'satis ed' with their retirement (Dorfman et al, 1984;Gernant, 1972;Havighurst et al, 1979;Patton, 1977;Rowe, 1973Rowe, , 1976Taylor, 1999). These studies have the same limitations with respect to their samples as those described above, and in most the median age of retirement was in the late sixties-even in Kell and Patton's (1977) study of induced early retirement the mean age of retirement was 64.…”

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Activities and Attitudes of Retired University Staff

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2001

Oxford Rev. Educ.

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A national sample of 1662 academic and academic related university staff, who had retired 3-5 years earlier, completed a postal survey about their current employment, research, other academic activities, and the academic resources available to them, and about their attitudes to retirement, and the extent of their leisure, voluntary, and other caring activities. Over two-thirds of academics and four-fths of academic related staff had retired early. Younger staff were more often currently employed, but the employment rate amongst academics aged 66-73 was very much greater than in the general population. The extent of research and other academic activities was related to university rank rather than age, with professors and readers more committed, and less involved in leisure activities. The most frequent reasons for early retirement were dissatisfaction with changes in the universities and nancial inducements. The majority said they were more contented because of retiring, and most would not have wanted to retire later than they did, but concerns were expressed about the failure of universities to give adequate status and resources to retired academics. There was some evidence that women were discriminated against in retirement.

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Male Social Scientists: Lives After Sixty1

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Career patterns of U.S. male academic social scientists

Career patterns of U.S. male academic social scientists

Part‐time faculty and the production of knowledge

Activities and Attitudes of Retired University Staff

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