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British Journal of Sociology of Education
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Doctoral Theses
Tobias Dalberg
To cite this article: Tobias Dalberg (2018) Doctoral Theses, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39:8, 1247-1248, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2018.1530119
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Published online: 27 Nov 2018.
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British Journal of sociology of Education 2018, Vol. 39, no. 8, 1247–1248
Doctoral Theses
We have agreed that the journal will invite and include notices of recently completed theses in the Sociology of Education. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
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Name of Author: Tobias Dalberg
Thesis Title: Reaching the Pinnacle of Scholarship: Social, Educational and Professional Trajectories in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Sweden during the First Half of the 20th Century
Awarding University: Uppsala University, Sweden Degree and Year: PhD, 2018
1248 DOCTORAL THESES
This dissertation employs Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of capital and field alongside Robert K. Merton’s notion of accumulation of advantage to study how different types of assets affect career trajectories in the humanities and social sciences. A prosopography of Swedish humanists and social scientists entering the academic profession during 1915–1955 com- prises the main empirical data, used in combination with library catalogues, secondary data and documents. The bulk of the data is analysed by quantitative methods, foremost geo- metric data analysis and sequence analysis.
The institutionalisation of the social sciences in the first half of the twentieth century brought about both new incumbencies at the universities and a polarisation of the mode of accumulating assets. The polarisation of the field separated social scientists more oriented towards political and administrative spheres of society from humanists more endowed with honorary titles, academy memberships and international recognition. In addition, upper secondary schools assumed a socially structuring role in a double sense as both a gatekeeper eliminating children from the lower classes from pathways to doctoral degrees and as a postdoctoral labour market for mainly humanities PhDs. Hence, the upper secondary schools were both launching sites and destinations for those reaching for the pinnacle of scholarship.
Email: tobias_dalberg@hotmail.com
