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Felipe Acuña; Francisca Corbalán – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
The subfield of Sociology of Education (SOE) concerned with the growth of neoliberalism through critically analysing its policies, discourses, and processes of subjectivation has made a significant contribution to education in the last 40 years. Whilst this scholarship has generated new knowledge about what happens to people, contexts and…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Neoliberalism, Bias, Epistemology
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Morrison, Andrew – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This article discusses how three other articles have employed E.P. Thompson's concept of the moral economy to analyse movements of resistance to higher education (HE) marketisation processes. Two of the studies relate to the English HE sector while one is a study of the Israeli system. The articles were selected because they are indicative of one…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Higher Education, Marketing, Criticism
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Youdell, Deborah; Lindley, Martin; Shapiro, Kimron; Sun, Yu; Leng, Yue – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
In this paper we begin to explore how knowledges being generated in bioscience might be brought into productive articulation with the Sociology of Education, considering the potential for emerging transdisciplinary, 'biosocial' approaches to enable new ways of researching and understanding pressing educational issues. In this paper, as in our…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Neurosciences, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Reay, Diane – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This paper attempts to work on a number of different levels. Firstly, it comprises my personal reflections on a career in sociology of education. These reflections are entwined with a history of the discipline that emphasises themes of power, politics and pragmatism. This subjective, and inevitably partial, account is combined with an examination…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Politics of Education, Educational History, Power Structure
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Delamont, Sara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
The author reflects on continuities and changes in the subdiscipline, using Mary Douglas and Basil Bernstein. In 2000 the millennial issue of "Sociology," the generic journal of the British Sociological Association, included a paper about the sociology of education called 'The anomalous beasts: Hooligans and the sociology of education'.…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, State of the Art Reviews, Educational Research
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Gewirtz, Sharon; Cribb, Alan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
In this paper, we consider the intensifying pressures on critical research and academic integrity in a research policy context that has come to be increasingly dominated by an instrumentalist mind-set. Using sensitising resources drawn from Geoff Whitty's critique of the 'what works' agenda, we reflect on the current conditions of academic labour…
Descriptors: Integrity, Policy Analysis, Criticism, College Faculty