PhD graduates and students: What professional pathways exist?
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This comparative study of education in Argentina and France has as its objective to analyze both the current position of PhDs
and PhD students and the expectations for their professional futures in the humanities under the current structural framework.
This framework does not always allow them to be absorbed in the scientific and/or business systems, especially in developed
countries where the number of PhDs produces a “plafond” effect. Our theoretical framework focuses on two issues: a)
professionalization and b) identity. Our methodology is qualitative (hierarchical evocation and interviews). The results bring to
light aspects hidden by the media and reveal the “reasons” both groups of PhDs give for their professional positions and
expectations as well as impressions of values privileged and/or “imposed” by the macro national level. Similarities and
differences show high institutional, disciplinary and national homogeneity. These are interpreted in light of a social-systemic
paradigm sui generis (Aparicio, 2015 a, b).
Keywords: PhDs; professional pathways; professional mobility; identity; professionalization.
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