Science of Science and Reflexivity
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...A relational approach to theory can draw attention to actors and conflicts, and dominant and subordinate positions within a scientific or cultural field, and thus can examine how habits and skills become ingrained in theoretical preferences forming a researcher’s habitus (Bourdieu, 2004)....
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...It is precisely this lack of theoretical explanation which signals the conditions in which the most critical hypothesis which can be formulated about the university is identical to the critical hypothesises which our field of study indicates we pose about society ( Bourdieu 2004 )....
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...The principle task before higher education researchers regarding the knowledge society, is the critical evaluation of a situation in which our methodological gaze has become as meaningful when turned inward—to higher education itself—as when we purport to study contexts and phenomena outside our walls ( Bourdieu 2004 )....
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...There is considerable room for a more robust critique of reform trends in higher education ( Bourdieu 2004; Marginson 2006)....
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...Older, established universities with strong academic and disciplinary cultures possess more field-specific power ( Bourdieu 1988, 2004 ) and are able to resist, even generate change, while other types of higher education institutions are more vulnerable to neoliberal management ideas (Marginson and Considine 2000, in Tuunainen 2004)....
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...We assert— following Marginson (2006) and Bourdieu (2004) —that theoretically-driven explanation based on rigorous analysis of empirical data within robust conceptual frameworks will frequently illuminate both knowledge voids and the theoretical mirror images of the most popular policy fads and fashions....
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...Many sociologists of education in the 1970s and 1980s were attracted by Bourdieu and Passeron's (1977) evocative conceptualization of pedagogy as "symbolic violence....
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...It is significant that Bourdieu (2004) himself tried,...
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...It is significant that Bourdieu (2004) himself tried, in my view not very successfully, to address this problem in relation to the sociology of science in his last book....
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...Given that recognition as knowledge is very much a function of the power to define and prescribe (Bourdieu, 2004: 18–21), European and North American scholars are only too aware that they can ignore with impunity what is done in peripheral sites like the African continent, while any African scholar…...
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...It is socially and politically mediated by hierarchies of humanity and human agency imposed by particular relations of power (Bourdieu, 2004: 18–21)....
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