Strategies of Discourse and Knowledge Use in the Practice of Bureaucratic Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2499286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Nespor (0000-0002-7354-8937, Virginia Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 325-332 |
| Publication date | 1989-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.48.4.tm1x58v105770v2h |
| OpenAlex | W1996417816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
In certain settings, social research becomes embedded in a form of bureaucratic politics that revolves around contests for status, power, and autonomy among participants in the research process. Written and verbal discourse are key resources in such contests. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analyzing their uses and employs this framework in a case study analysis of bureaucratic politics on a large federally funded educational research project. The study suggests that much of the political activity in such situations revolves around attempts to manipulate
Autonomy · Bureaucracy · Conceptual framework · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Process (computing) · Public relations · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Public Administration
Ambiguity and choice in organizations
Ideology and popular protest
Gatekeeping and the Melting Pot
The Forms of Capital
Realities of Social Research
Two Concepts of Rules
State Production of Social Knowledge
The Anthropologist as Hired Hand
Gatekeepers and the Social Control of Social Research
Social Research on Bureaucracy
The 'Cooling-Out' Function in Higher Education
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 1998 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |