Ainda na sequência do estudo, mencionado no post acima, sobre a endogamia envolvendo milhares de académicos em 140 países, é pertinente divulgar o recente e interessante artigo, de que abaixo se reproduz um pequeno extracto:
"The process by which academic inbreeding enables the formation and perpetuation of an academic oligarchy is explained in this paper, but it is perhaps surprising to observe how much it resembles the social and political organization and structures of the Middle Ages. Full professors assume the role of “feudal lords,” guiding others and shaping strategy at various levels. Their domain is established based on particular characteristics, such as seniority, and given institutional knowledge control, granting them respect and power akin to those of real feudal lords. Their domain power is based on the number of other academics who are part of their network, similar to subjects in the feudal lord–subject relationship; and they pass their power to someone in the “hereditary” line when they retire, and in some extreme cases to others with whom they share consanguinity bonds..." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-022-09469-6#Sec3
PS - O autor do artigo, Hugo Horta (que recorde-se tem vários artigos em co-autoria com o ex-Ministro da Ciência e do Ensino Superior, Manuel Heitor) deveria ter dito que os laços de consanguinidade com catedráticos, podem ser raros nas universidades de alguns países mas não o são, de todo, nas universidades Portuguesas https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/03/em-portugal-ser-filho-de-alguem.html
