An Ethnography of Academic Job Position-Filling: The Case of the Brazilian "Concursos"

Arbeitspapier | Working paper

This paper analyzes the system of academic job position-filling in Brazil, a country whose academic community has been steadily growing in recent times, with a 401% increase in MA and Ph.D titles over the last 20 years. The Brazilian system of academic job search, known as the concurso, is very different from those practiced in most countries, presenting mixed features of very strict rules on the one hand, and covert political patronage on the other. An ethnographic, “insider´s view” of the process will be provided, with an analysis of the main strategies used when different parties with conflicting interests try to manipulate or influence the outcome of a concurso.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 19
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Preprint; begutachtet

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Wirtschaft ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Bildung und Erziehung ; Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie ; Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie ; Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich ; Wissenschaft ; Akademikerberuf ; Universität ; Ethnographie ; Hochschullehrer ; Hochschulwesen ; Stellenbesetzung ; Wissenschaftspolitik ; Forschung ; Bewerbung ; Brasilien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Araujo, Astolfo Gomes de Mello
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Brasilien, São Paulo
• (when): 2019

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62189-0
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST