Academic inbreeding in higher education institutions is critical in terms of forming institutional and research habitus. In the meantime, it has a potential of regulating the relations of recognition. This article aims to understand how academic inbreeding practices play a key role in generating dispositions of institutional and research habitus and recognition gaps based on the data collected through semi-structured interviews of the selected faculty members from a higher education institution in Turkey and examination of the annual strategic planning reports of the university and the project office. Content analysis was employed to generate the themes and categories emerged from the qualitative data. Three main themes emerged as institutional habitus, research habitus, and the relations of recognition. The findings revealed that academic inbreeding is an interwoven asset of the institutional habitus, while it is also one of the critical determinants of research habitus and the relations of recognition. The findings of the study expected to contribute to the literature by employing different theoretical lenses. Further research can be conducted in multiple sites to yield more transferable conclusions considering the variables related to institutional, research habitus, and relations of recognition.

高等教育机构的学术近亲繁殖对于形成机构和研究习惯至关重要。同时，它具有调节承认关系的潜力。本文旨在了解学术近亲繁殖实践如何根据通过对土耳其高等教育机构选定教员的半结构化访谈和检查大学和项目办公室的年度战略规划报告。内容分析用于生成从定性数据中出现的主题和类别。出现了三个主要主题，即制度习惯、研究习惯和承认关系。研究结果表明，学术近亲繁殖是制度习惯的交织资产，同时也是研究习惯和认可关系的关键决定因素之一。该研究的结果有望通过采用不同的理论视角为文献做出贡献。考虑到与制度、研究习惯和认可关系相关的变量，可以在多个地点进行进一步的研究，以得出更具可转移性的结论。