Why are professors liberal?
The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are liberal, they should ask why so many liberals — and so few conservatives — want to be professors, skriver The New York Times.
A pair of sociologists think they may have an answer: typecasting. Conjure up the classic image of a humanities or social sciences professor, the fields where the imbalance is greatest: tweed jacket, pipe, nerdy, longwinded, secular — and liberal. Even though that may be an outdated stereotype, it influences younger people’s ideas about what they want to be when they grow up, heter det videre i artikkelen i The New York Times.
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The paper are writen by Ethan Fosse, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University and Neil Gross, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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