Book description
Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation of theā¦
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Zuckerman provides a comprehensive study of the American scientists who won Nobel prizes between 1907 and 1972.
The book provides a window into the personalities of the people doing Nobel prize-winning research, as well as the sort of environments in which they were socialized and educated. Nobel laureates have tended to study and work with other Laureates or future Laureates. She also discusses the impact that winning a Nobel prize has on scientists, and the effects of the prize are not wholly positive.
The book also demonstrates the potential power of sociological analyses. Zuckerman creatively combines interview data with quantitativeā¦
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