The Changing Academic Market: General Trends and a Berkeley Case Study

Robin Content and Neil Smelser's inside story and scholarly analysis of a major sociology department's search, during the mid-70s, to fill faculty jobs--in the midst of radical changes to the college market that began in the 1960s. That sea change is exposed with candid self-awareness and examined in its effects: treatment of candidates, affirmative action, shrinking markets, and recommendations