Are You Satisfied? PhD Education and Faculty Taste for Prestige: Limits of the Prestige Value System

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-46

  Morrison, Emory ^a   Rudd, Elizabeth ^b   Picciano, Joseph ^b   Nerad, Maresi ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic labor market; Doctoral education; Faculty careers; Job satisfaction; PhD programs; Prestige value system; Reference group theory; Social science PhD; Status systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650523611     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-010-9184-1     Document Type: Article

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