Mr. Dan's Academic Survival

Traditional academic history is often a history of ideas, development, or chronology. When we examine the academic history of a discipline through the lens of "development" and "progress," we make many conventional assumptions, such as: academic development is innovation based on the inheritance of tradition; academic development progresses along a path from low to high, from late to elite; and a scholar's influence is roughly proportional to their contributions. Under these assumptions, success is the rule, and only a tiny minority of renowned scholars are admitted to the realm of academic history, while the vast majority of ordinary scholars are excluded. However, if we shift our perspective, drawing on the thinking of the philosophy of science and the sociology of science, and view academic research as a distinct industry, we will find that ordinary scholars, as "academic craftsmen," their industry practices, and the academic ecosystem they inhabit deserve equal discussion.
The academic world, too, is plagued by ancestor worship, academic competition, seniority, factions and industry rules, control and resistance, obedience and revolution, the division between mainstream and marginalized, the barriers of lineage and social circles, the traditions of respecting elders and maintaining close ties, as well as self-promoting academic marketing and manipulative strategies of alliances. Some seemingly national academic malpractices are actually international scientific sociology problems; some seemingly fair industry rules seriously constrain academic development. Conventional research and scientific revolution are both indispensable dual tracks of academic development and natural processes that require no blueprint. This book is such a "social ecology" that focuses on ordinary academics, especially those in the humanities and social sciences, and is a reference for ordinary academics, especially young academics.

2024-07-01

上海文艺出版社

Arts and Culture eons

400

9787532190119