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Institutionalized Incivility.

The last decade of academic life has been witness to a peculiar species of moralizing whereby fierce political condemnations ("ritual anathematizations") of disciplines by their practitioners and of scholars by one another are deployed to authorize a comprehensive politicization of knowledge work. A...

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Published in:Social Research Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 503 - 525
Main Author: Gutkin, Len
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Summer2025
Subjects:
Offensive behavior
Prestige
Anxiety
Scholars
Ritual
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