Barbara Hoenig

Europe's New Scientific Elite (eBook, ePUB)

Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018

This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315446028
• Artikelnr.: 48210389

Autorenporträt

Barbara Hoenig is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Education & Society of the University of Luxembourg. She obtained her qualifications in sociology at the University of Graz (Diploma 2001, PhD 2009) and the University of Innsbruck (Habilitation 2016). She has published on the sociology of science and knowledge, the history of social sciences, social inequalities and European integration.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The problem: Establishing 'excellence' in socially stratified
science
Chapter 3. State of research: Controversial ideas on science and public
research in a global marketplace
Chapter 4. Explaining social change by Europeanization of science: An
analytical approach
Chapter 5. Methodology: Judging scientific 'excellence'
Chapter 6. The social structure of the European Research Area: A country
comparison
Chapter 7. Knowledge of 'European excellence': The grant-winning research
Chapter 8. The cultural structure of the European Research Area at
supranational level: The case of the European Research Council
Chapter 9. The sampling: What is a scientific elite?
Chapter 10. The grantees: Social choice and mechanisms in elite career
trajectories
Chapter 11. The panellists: Social choice and mechanisms in grant peer
review
Chapter 12. Social consequences and conclusions: Cumulative advantage and
the case of the European Research Council
Appendix
Index