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Socialization in the Academic and Professional Field: Revealing the Homo Oeconomicus Academicus
Habitusformation und Feldsozialisation im wirtschaftlichen und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Feld: Die Entschlüsselung des Homo Oeconomicus Academicus
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Abstract The paper analyses the formation of the habitus of economists in Germany. To reconstruct the economic habitus, a qualitative agency analysis will be conducted, i.e., the agency of professors and the process of professional socialization will be revealed. The project follows up on the substantial lit... mehr
The paper analyses the formation of the habitus of economists in Germany. To reconstruct the economic habitus, a qualitative agency analysis will be conducted, i.e., the agency of professors and the process of professional socialization will be revealed. The project follows up on the substantial literature on the indoctrination vs. self-selection debate in economics. In short, this debate asks why economists are more self-oriented than other groups. While some authors find strong evidence for a learning effect in economic studies, other au-thors provide evidence that a process of self-selection takes place before entry to the economic profession. Overall, the paper aims at answering how stable a habitus can be, and what forms of habitus modification professionals face when entering new fields. The results show that the widely used distinction between indoctrination and selection is not suitable. Rather, I will demonstrate that a field theory perspective considering the process of professional field socialization as a form of field-specific accumulation of capital is needed to explain the ambiguous results.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Berufsverlauf; Wirtschaftswissenschaft; berufliche Sozialisation; biographische Methode; homo oeconomicus; Habitus; Wirtschaftssoziologie; Karriere; Akademiker; Bourdieu, P.; Feldtheorie; Modellentwicklung; Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
Klassifikation
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Sociology of economics; economists; academic socialization; professional socialization; professional habitus; economic habitus; habitus-field-theory; Pierre Bourdieu
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 39-62
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 3
Heftthema
Economists, Politics, and Society: New Insights from Mapping Economic Practices Using Field-Analysis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.39-62
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)