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Universities in Crisis:A Public Sociology Perspective
Koc University, Istanbul, January 4, 2011
Michael Burawoy
UNIVERSITIES IN CRISIS
• Blog: http://www.isa-sociology.org/universities-in-crisis/
• Third Wave Marketization– Privatization of Universities– State Regulation
UNIVERSITIES IN CRISIS
• Blog: http://www.isa-sociology.org/universities-in-crisis/
• Third Wave Marketization– Privatization of Universities– State Regulation
• Erosion of Autonomy
• Global Hierarchy
Market Model: California• Decline in State Funding
– Lay-offs: Non-Academic Staff
– Reduction of faculty Salaries
– Increase Student Fees
• Privatization – Corporate Donors
– Science-Industry Collaborations
– Managerialism
• Degradation of Education– Temporary Faculty
– Talk: Distance learning, Shorter Degree
– Disciplines Threatened
• Hierarchization
Regulation Model: Britain
• Making Universities Efficient
• Research Assessment Exercise
• Planned Targets – Shorter time horizons
• Impact Factors
• Competition among Universities
• Sovietization of Higher Education
BASIC QUESTIONS
•Knowlege for Whom?
•Knowledge for What?
Knowledge for Whom?
• Academic Audience
• Extra-Academic Audience
Knowledge for What?
• Instrumental Knowledge (Pursuit of means)
• Reflexive Knowledge (Discussion of ends)
Academic
Audience
Extra-Academic Audience
Instrumental
Knowledge
Reflexive
Knowledge
Division of Academic Labor
Academic
Audience
Extra-Academic Audience
Instrumental
Knowledge
POLICY
Reflexive
Knowledge
Division of Academic Labor
Academic
Audience
Extra-Academic Audience
Instrumental
Knowledge
PROFESSIONAL POLICY
Reflexive
Knowledge
Division of Academic Labor
Academic
Audience
Extra-Academic Audience
Instrumental
Knowledge
PROFESSIONAL POLICY
Reflexive
Knowledge
CRITICAL
Division of Academic Labor
Academic
Audience
Extra-Academic Audience
Instrumental
Knowledge
PROFESSIONAL POLICY
Reflexive
Knowledge
CRITICAL PUBLIC
Division of Academic Labor
Audience
Knowledge
Academic Extra-Academic
Instrumental PROFESSIONAL POLICY
Reflexive CRITICAL PUBLIC
ELABORATIONS
•Types of Knowledge•Trajectories•Disciplines•Interdependence•Pathologies•Domination
THEORIZING CONTEXT
PROFESSIONAL
CRITICAL
POLICY
PUBLIC
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ORGANIC
TRADITIONAL
ProfessionalCritical
Policy
Public
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ORGANIC
ADVOCACY
TRADITIONAL
SPONSORED
ProfessionalCritical
Policy
Public
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ORGANIC
SUBSTANTIVE ADVOCACY
TRADITIONAL
SPONSOREDFORMAL
ProfessionalCritical
Policy
Public
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ORGANIC
SUBSTANTIVE ADVOCACY
TRADITIONALDISCIPLINARY
SPONSOREDFORMAL
INTERDISCIPLINARY
ProfessionalCritical
Policy
Public
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ORGANIC
SUBSTANTIVE ADVOCACY
TRADITIONALDISCIPLINARY
SPONSOREDFORMAL
INTERDISCIPLINARY
ProfessionalCritical
Policy
Public
GLOBAL CONTEXT
SUBSTANTIVE
TRADITIO
NAL
GLOBAL
FORMAL
ORGANIC
LOCAL
PROFESSIONAL
PUBLIC
SUBSTANTIVE
TRADITIO
NAL
GLOBAL
FORMAL
ORGANIC
“Publish Globally, Perish Locally”
“Publish Locally, Perish Globally” LOCAL
ADVOCACYSUBSTANTIV
E
TRADITIO
NALDISCIPLINARY
GLOBAL COMMERCIAL
POSTMODERN
FORMAL
SPONSORED
ORGANICINTER-
DISCIP
LINARY
LOCALPO
LICY
PUBLIC
PROFESSIONAL
CRITIC
AL
PROFESSIONAL
CRITICAL
POLICY
PUBLIC
MARKET M
ODEL
REGULATO
RY MO
DEL
DELIBERATIVE
DEMO
CRACY
CRITIC
AL ENGAGEM
ENT