Credential privilege or cumulative advantage? Prestige, productivity, and placement in the academic sociology job market

Social Forces

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1257-1282

  Headworth, Spencer ^a   Freese, Jeremy ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84959935045     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sov102     Document Type: Article

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