Date of Award

1-1-2012

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Sociology

Content Description

1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages) : PDF file

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Richard Lachmann

Committee Members

Elizabeth P Berman, James Zetka, Ronald N Jacobs

Keywords

Cultural Theory, Higher Education, Organizational Theory, Sociology of Worth, College teachers, Part-time, College teaching, Universities and colleges

Subject Categories

Higher Education | Sociology

Abstract

This dissertation studies the organization of adjunct instruction within Departments of English and Mathematics at three colleges - a public research university, a private masters granting teaching college, and a public community college. Four questions lie at the core of this project. First, what higher principles and standards of evaluation (i.e. forms of worth) are used among full-time faculty and administrators to justify and criticize adjuncts and the college's use of them? Second, what tests of worth have been institutionalized to evaluate adjuncts? Third, how does the college avoid the potential accusation of exploitation? And fourth, how does being an adjunct faculty member fit into the occupational trajectories of the adjunct faculty themselves?

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