Craftways

On the Organization of Scholarly Work

Bibliographic Data

ID9011942
AuthorsSimon Dinitz (The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Aaron Wildavsky
Year1991
Volume62
Issue3
Pages361-362
Publication date1991-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00221546.1991.11774135
OpenAlexW2318801130, W2007197703
LanguageEN
Citations received11

one subject that serious students want most to know about, other than their specialty, is how academic life is lived and how scholarly work is carried out. Their curiosity is equally shared by those interested in how to improve the quality and quantity of their work. With few exceptions, the time honored word-of-mouth approach is all there has been until now; how one works is rarely a subject seriously discussed in print. Craftways is intended to address these concerns and needs. Aaron Wildavsky has long been admired as one of the most productive political scientists of his generation. Repeated expressions of interest in his scholarly craft led him to gather together his essays on how he works. Included are chapters on how to read social science -not always everyone's favorite pastime - how to work with others on collaborative projects, and how to improve one's academic writing. question of time, the most limited resource available to most scholars, is addressed in an amusing chapter, The Organization of Time in Scholarly Activities Carried Out Under American Conditions in Resource-Rich Universities. He includes a section on interviewing, focusing not only on the process, but on the spirit of scholarly enterprise that should animate it. last part of the book is purely personal, emphasizing the familial and background variables that have made Wildavsky who he is and play a large part in how he goes about his work. This wise volume, by a master of his craft, should be of broad interest to students and faculty in the social sciences

Higher education · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Engineering · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Russia and Soviet political economy · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia

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