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

Author(s): Kamil Łuczaj
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: upward mobility; social class; higher education; Poland; cleft habitus; non-reproduction
Summary/Abstract: 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.

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