Advertising What Lies Behind the Academic Door: Occupational Identity Displays

Yanira Reyes Gil, JoAnn Miller, Autumn Behringer, Erin K. Anderson, Sue Ellen Bovard, Ted Brimeyer, Robert Grantham, Yunqing Li, Lynette Osborne
2005

We used an unobtrusive research design to observe and measure the materials that academics post on their office doors in a social science department. The purpose of the study was to uncover how social actors advertise dimensions of their occupational identities. The analysis examined variation in ...