EAN: 9783838209371

ACADEMIC CULTURE AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UN...

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It
was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm  the creation of cultural
theories. Since then  social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the
world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice-except in regard to the social
sciences and how they practice the creation of knowledge. How academics in the social sciences
across the world create knowledge is no topic for cultural theories. Social science theorizing
seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. Kazumi Okamoto
presents the development of an analytical instrument that helps study 'academic culture' 
analyze 'academic practices' of how social sciences create and distribute knowledge  and the
influence the 'academic environment' has on their knowledge productions. Applying this
theoretical tool to the academe in Japan  she further presents a case study about how social
scientists in Japan interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic
environment. Studying the academic culture in the case of Japan  she reveals that not only the
academic practices and the academic environment of the academe in Japan show much less
diversities than cultural theories tend to presuppose  but that the assumption that creating
social science knowledge does not know cultural diversities is an error as well.

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