Berli, Oliver (2021). Warming up and cooling out in science. On shifts of horizons of possibility in academic careers in Germany. Berliner J. Soz., 31 (3-4). S. 327 - 353. WIESBADEN: VS VERLAG SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN-GWV FACHVERLAGE GMBH. ISSN 1862-2593
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In his classic 1952 article On cooling the mark out, Erving Goffman proposed an influential heuristic for analyzing the disappointment of expectations as well as possible strategies for avoiding and dealing with failure (which, typically, is attributed to individual mistakes). In competitive fields that simultaneously promise universalism and meritocracy while systematically failing to deliver on these modern promises, dealing with disappointments is an ongoing task. Academic careers are a prime example of this combination of field-specific belief in merit and a high density of setbacks. Following the example of academic careers, the article amends the cooling out concept to include processes of warming up. While cooling out refers to the cooling of ambitions, warming up aims at the process of building up ambition and career plans. On the basis of 20 qualitative interviews with researchers from the disciplines of business administration, history and physics, the article explores the strategies of managing expectations as well as the adjustment of horizons of possibility in this process.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-561952 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11609-021-00451-9 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Berliner J. Soz. | ||||||||
Volume: | 31 | ||||||||
Number: | 3-4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 327 - 353 | ||||||||
Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
Publisher: | VS VERLAG SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN-GWV FACHVERLAGE GMBH | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | WIESBADEN | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1862-2593 | ||||||||
Language: | German | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56195 |
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