Tim Fenkner- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Tim Fenkner
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Introduction
Interested in Higher Education Research, academic careers, cultural theories of Agency, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory, Qualitative Research
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Academic careers between the completion of a PhD and the acquisition of tenure are characterized by short term contracts, high levels of competition, and future uncertainty. Existing research indicates that uncertainty is a primary cause for postdocs in all disciplines to constantly question the continuation of their career. Despite this commonalit...
The notion of agency has been the subject of extensive debate in social theory, gaining its reputation for being a particularly “slippery” concept. Reflections on operationalizing agency in field-based empirical studies, however, have been rare. Using qualitative interview studies on academic careers as an example, I will distinguish between four d...
Academic careers between the completion of a PhD and the acquisition of tenure are characterized by short term contracts, high levels of competition, and future uncertainty. Existing research indicates that uncertainty is a primary cause for postdocs in all disciplines to constantly question the continuation of their career. Despite this commonalit...
This dataset provides bibliographical information for 571 English language sociological research articles that empirically study actors' expectations, aspirations and perceptions of the future. This text corpus is the basis for an analysis published in "Beckert and Suckert, 2020, The Future as A Social Fact. The Analysis of Perceptions of the Futur...
