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9780765806093

The Academic Marketplace

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765806093

  • ISBN10:

    0765806096

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-02-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

In this hard-hitting expose of the American university, Caplow and McGee consider all the working parts of the system and assess their suitability. Their report on the actualities, myths, and consequences of routines amounts to an anatomy of an institution -- an anatomy that does not present a pretty picture. In a new introduction, the authors sort out fact from legend and discern trends, they address the validity of their own research methods and the applicability of their original findings to today's.

Author Biography

Theodore Caplow is Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 2001 edition vii
Foreword xxiii
Acknowledgments xxvi
The Background
3(23)
Reasons for Research
Some Prior Perspectives
``The Groves of Academe''
Previous Research
The Problem and the Method
26(14)
The Unit of Study
The Sample
The Interview Schedule
Entree and Acceptance
Coding and Tabulation
How the Vacancies Occur
40(41)
Mobility and Academic Rank
Mobility and Age
Mobility and Institutional Prestige
Involuntary Termination
Voluntary Termination
The Lure of Money
Information Screens
After Departure
Collaboration and Isolation
The Outside Offer
A The oretical Digression
Hazards of Interaction
How Performance Is Evaluated
81(13)
``Publish or Perish''
The Career Curve
Labels and Markings
The Strategy of the Department
94(15)
Offers and Counter-offers
The Matter of Salary
The Impact of Departure
The Department's Prestige
The Grapevine
Prestige Exchanges
Procedures of Recruitment
109(29)
Open and Closed Hiring
The Process in Practice
Festina Lente
Some Recruiting Agents
Hiring Procedures in Perspective
The Merits of Candidates
The Decision-making Procedure
Hazards of the Market
Signing and Sealing
Patterns of Choice
138(20)
The Rules of Budgeting
The Specification of Duties
The Decline of Teaching
Motives for Migration
Supplementary Opportunities
Selecting the Replacement
158(24)
Who Is the Fairest?
Supply and Demand
The Impact of Replacements
Personnel Poker
Seniority and Merit
Academic Government and the Personnel Process
182(27)
Who Participates in Faculty Recruiting?
Some Perspectives on Participation
Stresses Within Departments
Stresses Between Department Members and Chairmen
Stresses Betweeen Deans and Departments
Stresses Between Deans and Higher Administration
The Resolution of Stresses
Some Observations on Power in Universities
Current Trends in the Marketplace
209(10)
Discussion and Recommendations
219(38)
Problems of the Individual Scholar
Problems of the University Administration
Recommendations
Index 257

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