Arthur S. Wilke

The Hidden professoriate : credentialism, professionalism, and the tenure crisis

Wilke has called upon sociologists, observers as well as victims of the caste system, to describe by use of case studies and to analyze the plight of non-tenured faculty and their efforts to survive in an increasingly hostile environment. These stories reveal the human factor, too often slighted or forgotten in discussions of the precarious place of the university in todays society.

Caste, caste association, caste federation and inequality as vocabularies:

Despite the growing interest of the social sciences in social change, particularly modernity, ambiguities in these intellectual endeavours persist. These ambiguities may be most acute for social science efforts undertaken in societies such as India in which the quest for and the challenge of modernity is intense. For it is here that a vehicle of modernity, viz. nationalism, is most prominent. This is particularly troublesome if, as is often the case, social science analyses are anchored in the history and ethnocentrism of what are identified as modern societies; most often these