Academic culture : an analytical framework for understanding academic work : a case study about the social science academe in Japan /
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Author / Creator: | Okamoto, Kazumi, author |
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Imprint: | Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, 2016. ©2016 |
Description: | 306 pages ; 21 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Beyond the social sciences, 2364-8775 ; vol. 5 Beyond the social sciences ; 5. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11018470 |
ISBN: | 9783838209579 3838209575 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-306). |
Summary: | 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 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. |
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