Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work

A Case Study about the Social Science Academe in Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0957-9
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversity has become common sense. The social sciences gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice—except the social sciences and how they create knowledge, which is off limits. Social science theorizing seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. In this book, Kazumi Okamoto develops analytical tools to study academic culture, analyze how social sciences create and distribute knowledge, and the influence the academic environment has on knowledge production. She uses the academy in Japan as a case study of how social scientists interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic environment. Studying Japanese academic culture, she reveals that academic practices and the academic environment in Japan show much less diversity than cultural theories tend to presuppose.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okamoto, Kazumi

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Research Question
3. Literature Review
4. Conceptual Framework towards Constructing Academic Culture
5. Methodological Operationalization
7. Discussion of the Case Study
8. Discussion of the Concept of Academic Culture in the Light of the Case Study
9. Concluding Remarks
10. References

Über Autor(innen)

Kazumi Okamoto is secretary general of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network and director of Knowwhy Global Research. Her research interests include culture in academic practices in the context of international collaborative knowledge generation and the internationalization of higher education.