From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change.
Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program—which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institut...
| Publicado en: | Gender & Society Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 330 - 358 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=150501217&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 150501217 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 08912432 GES jtl: Gender & Society issn: 08912432 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2021 vid: 35 iid: 3 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. artinfo: ui: 150501217 10.1177/08912432211000335 ppf: 330 ppct: 28 formats: tig: atl: From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change. aug: au: Nelson, Laura K. Zippel, Kathrin affil: Northeastern University, USA su: Feminists Organizational change Gender inequality sug: subj: Feminists Organizational change Gender inequality keyword: abductive theory feminist change implicit bias mixed methods theory and practice abductive theory feminist change implicit bias mixed methods theory and practice ab: Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program—which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation—has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into practice? What makes some concepts more tractable than others? What happens to theories through this translation process? We explore these questions using the ADVANCE program as a case study. Using an inductive, theory-building approach and combination of computational and qualitative methods, we investigate how the concept of implicit bias was translated into practice through the ADVANCE program and identify five key features that made implicit bias useful as a change framework in the academic STEM setting. We find that the concept of implicit bias works programmatically because it is (1) demonstrable, (2) relatable, (3) versatile, (4) actionable, and (5) impartial. While enabling the concept's diffusion, these characteristics also limit its scope. We reflect on implications for gender theories of organizational change and for practitioners. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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