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Are You Satisfied? PhD Education and Faculty Taste for Prestige: Limits of the Prestige Value System
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Direct linkMorrison, Emory; Rudd, Elizabeth; Picciano, Joseph; Nerad, Maresi – Research in Higher Education, 2011
This paper empirically evaluates Caplow and McGee's (The academic marketplace, 1958) model of academia as a prestige value system (PVS) by testing several hypotheses about the relationship between prestige of faculty appointment and job satisfaction. Using logistic regression models to predict satisfaction with several job domains in a sample of…
Descriptors: Reference Groups, Job Satisfaction, Reputation, Social Sciences
