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Első generációs oktatók pályaképe és önreflexiói
First-Generation Academics’ Biogrpahies and Self-Reflections

Author(s): Veronika Bocsi
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: first-generation academics; higher education; social mobility

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to recover the career and life path of 11 first-generation academics. We try to map their disadvantages or advantages – which are embedded in their social circumstances – motives of their further studies and the history of their career choices. The results have shown that their experiences are diverse. The experiencing of handicaps does not work in every case nevertheless these kinds of traces can be found in some forms by most of them. These handicaps seem to be more significant in the field of those disciplines in which cultural capital is rather the parts of the professional identities and professional socialisation or the prestige of the institution is high.

  • Issue Year: 29/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 634-643
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Hungarian