Jewish or Professorial Identity? The Priorization Process in Academic Situations

The concept of “priorization”—that definitional process whereby an acting unit, in regard to a given situation, gives precedence to one of his role-, identity-, self-, or membership-/reference-orientations over another or others—is introduced. Examples from past studies of academic organizational ro...

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Main Author: Friedman, Norman L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1971
In: Sociological analysis
Year: 1971, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 149-157
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Summary:The concept of “priorization”—that definitional process whereby an acting unit, in regard to a given situation, gives precedence to one of his role-, identity-, self-, or membership-/reference-orientations over another or others—is introduced. Examples from past studies of academic organizational roles and of ethnic identity experiences are cited. A research case illustration, concerning the definitions of 42 Jewish-born college professors in dilemma situations involving their academic and religio-ethnic identities, is presented. Findings in regard to how these respondents priorized choices about whether or not to work on the Yom Kippur holiday are then used as a springboard for more general analytic formulations about the nature of the priorization process in academic situations.
ISSN:2325-7873
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3709998