The Biographical Experience of Entering the Academic Profession. Popular-Class Lecturers at the Post-Socialist University

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This book is devoted to upwardly mobile university lecturers or people who “escaped the collective fate of their class”. The upward mobility of the academic faculty is under-researched in the peripheries of global knowledge production, although there is a significant interest in the social mobility of students. Up until now, no author has explicitly raised the question of how mobility is possible in a post-socialist higher education system, what emotional mechanisms it involves, and how mobility translates into cultural practices of upwardly mobile individuals.


Rok wydania2023
Liczba stron148
KategoriaPublikacje darmowe
WydawcaWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
ISBN-13978-83-8331-362-7
Numer wydania1
Język publikacjiangielski
Informacja o sprzedawcyePWN sp. z o.o.

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  Acknowledgments    7
  
  Introduction. Upward Mobility, Semi-Peripheries, and the Academic Profession    9
  Th Aim of the Book    9
  Social Class, Globalization, and Superdiversity    10
  Structure of the Book    12
  
  Chapter 1. The Miraculous and the Inheritors in 21st Century Poland. On the Theories of Upward Mobility in Higher Education Beyond the Global Centers     13
  Social Class as an Essentially Contested Concept    14
  The Relational Understanding of Social Class    15
  Social Class in Liquid Modernity    16
  Social Reproduction, the Miraculous, and Non-Reproduction    19
  The Rejection of Class at the Level of Public Discourse    21
  The Dominated among the Dominated. Higher Education in Poland and the Issue of Class    24
  Methods and Data    26
  
  Chapter 2. How Are the Miraculous Born? The Anatomy of Upward Mobility    31
  Research Problem: The Anatomy of Upward Mobility through Post-Socialist Academia    31
  Factors Facilitating Mobility in Post-Socialist Academia    32
  The Exceptional Talent and Precocious Skills    32
  Supportive Family    33
  Other Role Models: Human and Non-Human    38
  Place of Birth    41
  Egalitarian Higher Education System    42
  Coincidence    48
  Conclusions and Policy Implications    49
  
  Chapter 3. The Burden of a Metamorphosis or a Blessing in Disguise? The Physiology of Upward Mobility    51
  Realizing the Class Difference    51
  Not Fitting in Academia: Estrangement and Fear     55
  Deep career uncertainty     60
  Losing Old Heritage (Cultural Breach)    64
  Popular Class Background as an Academic Asset    69
  Valuing the Culture of Origin    70
  Reversed Transfer and Repayment    74
  Conclusions    76
  
  Chapter 4. Cultural Markers of Upward Mobility within Academia. Eastern European Perspective    77
  Upward Mobility and Cultural Practices    78
  TV Culture versus Book Culture    78
  Ideological Sphere    82
  Rediscovering Leisure Time    87
  Traveling and Exploring    91
  Eating Habits    97
  Alcohol    102
  Clothing & Post-Materialism    106
  Highbrow Culture    114
  Upward Mobility and Class Dispositions. Discussion    117
  Outbound versus Inbound Orientation    117
  Freedom to Choose versus “Realized Necessity”    118
  Automatic versus Selective Consumption    120
  Traditional versus Self-Created Definition of Life Success    121
  Conclusions    123
  The Unfinished Story of Upward Mobility. The Summary of Findings    126
  Towards Policies    130
  
  References    135
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