Positioning Theory and Intellectual Interventions

Baert, Patrick

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.2012.00492.x

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“…Rather than a given place in the social structure, academic subject positions are practical and creative achievements of those participating in discourse (see the perspective of positioning theory, e.g. Langenhove and Harré 1999;Baert 2012). Against this background, academics negotiate academic subject positions by applying categories to others.…”

Section: Academic Careers As Discursive Positioning Processes Of Resementioning

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Academic careers and the valuation of academics. A discursive perspective on status categories and academic salaries in France as compared to the U.S., Germany and Great Britain

Angermüller

2017

High Educ

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Academic careers are social processes which involve many members of large populations over long periods of time. This paper outlines a discursive perspective which looks into how academics are categorized in academic systems. From a discursive view, academic careers are organized by categories which can define who academics are (subjectivation) and what they are worth (valuation). The question of this paper is what institutional categorizations such as status and salaries can tell us about academic subject positions and their valuation. By comparing formal status systems and salary scales in France with those in the U.S., Great Britain and Germany, this paper reveals the constraints of institutional categorization systems on academic careers. Special attention is given to the French system of status categories which is relatively homogeneous and restricts the competitive valuation of academics between institutions. The comparison shows that academic systems such as the U.S. which are characterized by a high level of heterogeneity typically present more negotiation opportunities for the valuation of academics. From a discursive perspective, institutional categories, therefore, can reflect the ways in which academics are valuated in the inter-institutional job market, by national bureaucracies or in professional oligarchies.

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Section: Academic Careers As Discursive Positioning Processes Of Resementioning

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Academic careers and the valuation of academics. A discursive perspective on status categories and academic salaries in France as compared to the U.S., Germany and Great Britain

Angermüller

2017

High Educ

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“…On the other hand, microsociological approaches, such as Charles Camic's and Neil Gross’ “new sociology of ideas” (), while exhibiting greater sensitivity to the content of the ideas under study, tend to reduce these ideas to strategic choices (Camic, ; Gross, ). Even Patrick Baert's recent positioning theory (), despite correctly focusing on the effects of intellectual interventions by individual agents rather than on the motivations behind them, has little to say about the materiality of the processes through which these effects impact communities of interpreters.…”

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On the Pragmatics of Social Theory: The Case of Elias's “On the Process of Civilization”

Silva¹,

Bucholc²

2016

J History Behavioral Science

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This paper proposes a new approach to the study of sociological classics. This approach is pragmatic in character. It draws upon the social pragmatism of G. H. Mead and the sociology of texts of D. F. McKenzie. Our object of study is Norbert Elias's On the Process of Civilization. The pragmatic genealogy of this book reveals the importance of taking materiality seriously. By documenting the successive entanglements between human agency and nonhuman factors, we discuss the origins of the book in the 1930s, how it was forgotten for 30 years, and how in the mid-1970s it became a sociological classic. We explain canonization as a matter of fusion between book's material form and its content, in the context of the paperback revolution of the 1960s, the events of May 1968, and the demise of Parsons' structural functionalism, and how this provided Elias with an opportunity to advance his model of sociology. C 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…Among these Baert (2012) used positioning theory to analyse discourse associated with intellectual contributors to the social sciences, recognising that intellectual 241 Teaching Chinese international students contributions whether written or verbal involved an element of positioning. Baert recognises the creation of an academic work is an act of discourse and that a number of actors are involved in each episode, including the author, the editor and publisher.…”

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Academic experiences in teaching Chinese international students

McCrohon

Nyland

2016

Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate on the factors, which influence the academic perspectives and integrity of the Chinese international students (CISs) perspectives of academic integrity. The paper reports on the views and experiences of academicians interviewed as part of the study. Design/methodology/approach -The study used a trans-disciplinary conceptual framework based on grounded and positioning theory to interpret qualitative data derived from in-depth interviews and research literature. In line with this constructivist approach, a version of Auditable Systematised Qualitative Analysis was a tool used to conceptualise the participant's ideas about academic integrity. Findings -Analysis of the gathered data from interviews with lecturers suggests that representing a line of discourse expressed by the institution was in many, but not all cases, difficult for these lecturers. Practical implications -This research has the potential to contribute to administrator, educator and policy makers in their understanding of CIS perspectives, international student experiences in host institutions and local academic experiences, perceptions and attitudes. Originality/value -This is a primary research paper designed to explore academic perspectives of academic integrity in working with international students. The complexities and changing nature of understanding of the international student context gives the research value.

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Positioning Theory and Intellectual Interventions

Cited by 79 publications

References 32 publications

Academic careers and the valuation of academics. A discursive perspective on status categories and academic salaries in France as compared to the U.S., Germany and Great Britain

Academic careers and the valuation of academics. A discursive perspective on status categories and academic salaries in France as compared to the U.S., Germany and Great Britain

On the Pragmatics of Social Theory: The Case of Elias's “On the Process of Civilization”

Academic experiences in teaching Chinese international students

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