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What Does It Take to Be Successful?

University of Georgia, jch1{at}uga.edu

Physicists were asked the question, "What do you think are the most important qualities needed to be successful at the type of work you do?" The results demonstrate which qualities physicists value and how values vary among the qualities they identified. The results also show how physicists’ beliefs about success vary by the rank of their department, age, productivity, and gender. More generally, the findings cast light on the moral order of physics by eliciting how members of an occupation construe the structure of success in their line of work.

Key Words: achievement • higher education • stratification • scientists • academia

Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 31, No. 2, 135-152 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0162243905283637


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