Pathways to Prominence: The Effects of Social Origins and Education on Career Achievements of American Rhodes Scholars. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.

Autor/inn/en	Youn, Ted I. K.; Arnold, Karen D.; Salkever, Katya
Titel	Pathways to Prominence: The Effects of Social Origins and Education on Career Achievements of American Rhodes Scholars. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
Quelle	(1999), (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Awards; Bachelors Degrees; Careers; Elitism; Graduate Study; Higher Education; Outcomes of Education; Prestige; Private Colleges; Professional Recognition; Quality of Working Life; Recognition (Achievement); Scholarships; Selective Colleges; Social Class; Social Stratification; Status + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Award; Auszeichnung; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Career; Karriere; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Privathochschule; Arbeitsqualität; Soziale Anerkennung; Scholarship; Stipendium; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Soziale Zusammensetzung
Abstract	This study is one in a series that examines cohorts of American Rhodes scholars in order to determine how changing dynamics of merit, sponsorship, and democratization affect elite membership, socialization, occupational structures, and perceptions of leadership. This segment of the study examines the ways in which elite baccalaureate credentials interact with pre-college cultural capital to shape distinctive career outcomes. The sample (n=220) included two cohorts of Rhodes scholars from the late 1940s and the late 1960s, and the research sought to determine: (1) whether between World War II and the late 1960s Rhodes scholars had become more diverse in terms of social origins; (2) whether an upper-class background increased the likelihood of achieving professional prominence; (3) whether attendance at a "big 3" graduate school had an independent effect on career prominence; (4) whether social class and educational effects on career attainment differed for Rhodes scholars in the 1940s and 1960s; and (5) what interactions of social background, baccalaureate origins, and graduate school prestige affect career prominence. The study concluded that factors outside of formal education and social background account for the majority of the variation in the career pathways of Rhodes scholars chosen for eminence. (Contains 40 references.) (CH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC