2014
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2014.22
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To Stay or to Go? Narratives of Early-Stage Sociologists about Persisting in Academia

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“…Empirical applications can be found in Höhle (2015), Laudel (2017), Laudel and Gläser (2008) and Wöhrer (2014).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Empirical applications can be found in Höhle (2015), Laudel (2017), Laudel and Gläser (2008) and Wöhrer (2014).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Hackett (1990, p. 265) elaborates on tensions between intrinsic and instrumental values in academic science, a conceptual orientation which we can build on. Interestingly, recent empirical studies show that individual researchers keep holding high epistemically relevant values as ideals while being increasingly frustrated in view of actually converse practices (Schmidt-Pfister and Hangel, 2012;Sponholz and Baitsch, 2005;Wöhrer, 2014b). One might assume that this tension between epistemic and pragmatic values is felt strongest by junior academics, who are most forced to accumulate performance-based recognition, best proven by measurable publication output, in order to survive fierce competition for future jobs.…”
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“…frustrated and disaffected (Petersen, 2011). In Austria, they are stressed by insecure working conditions and unclear career options (Woehrer, 2014). In the UK, they express dissatisfaction around insecurity, marginalization, inferior status and lack of career development (Smith, 2012).…”
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“…Another explanation is that they care deeply about their research and do not wish to give it up, while at the same time having minimal sense of what alternate career opportunity structures there may be (McAlpine and Emmioglu, 2015). The result is that they are prepared to live with the insecurity of their positions for some time (Woehrer, 2014); this might be especially true, given the continuing effects of the global economic crisis in 2014-2015.…”
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