The Biographical Experience of Entering the Academic Profession

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Lodz 2023

Kamil Łuczaj – University of Łódź, Faculty of Economics and Sociology Department of the Sociology of Culture, 90-214 Łódź, 41/43 Rewolucji 1905 r. St. REVIEWERS Dominik Antonowicz, Sławomir Czapnik INITIATING EDITOR Katarzyna Włodarczyk LANGUAGE EDITING Anna Dolińska TYPESETTING AGENT PR TECHNICAL EDITOR Leonora Gralka COVER DESIGN Monika Rawska Cover Image: Patrycja Longawa This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland [grant number UMO-2019/35/D/HS6/00169] © Copyright by Kamil Łuczaj, Łódź 2023 © Copyright for this edition by University of Łódź, Łódź 2023 Published by Łódź University Press First edition. W.11104.23.0.M https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-361-0 Publisher’s sheets 10.0; printing sheets 9.25 ISBN 978-83-8331-361-0 e-ISBN 978-83-8331-362-7 Łódź University Press 90-237 Łódź, 34A Jana Matejki St. www.wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl e-mail: ksiegarnia@uni.lodz.pl phone 42 635 55 77

CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 The Miraculous and the Inheritors in 21st Century Poland. On the Theories The Dominated among the Dominated. Higher Education in Poland and the Chapter 2 Research Problem: The Anatomy of Upward Mobility through Post-Socialist