The Trauma of Academia: on Attempts of Idiorrhythmic Contextualization
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The study focuses on three narratives as they unfold within the academy and contextualize academic trauma. The first examines the manifestations of the classical social science structural-agency dilemma in the university setting. The second re...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
2022-12-01
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| description | <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The study focuses on three narratives as they unfold within the academy and contextualize academic trauma. The first examines the manifestations of the classical social science structural-agency dilemma in the university setting. The second reveals the mechanisms of balancing between the objectivity demanded of the academicians and their inherent subjectivity, in the suppression of which trauma is highlighted. The third theme, built around R. Barthes’ model of idiorrhythmia, offers a theoretical understanding of the academy as a social aggregate that attempts to harmonize individual and collective experience. The lines of argument are combined into a single theoretical model, focusing on different aspects of the manifestation of the same phenomenon — trauma. Trauma reveals itself in various aspects of academic life: in informal practices that contradict formal rules, in the demands for objectivity imposed on the social researcher under the conditions of their inalienable subjectivity, in the individualization of academic life while simultaneously attempting to universalize the experience of it. At the same time, the multiple contradictions of academic life prevent critical reflection on them. The study notes the advantages and drawbacks of the autoethnographic approach to overcoming these dilemmas in the situation of the academic’s reflection on their academic experience.</span></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ec3394756412477d971f47e2aa8970e02023-02-16T07:29:29ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied SociologyИнтеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация2687-04012022-12-01144102810.19181/inter.2022.14.4.15965The Trauma of Academia: on Attempts of Idiorrhythmic ContextualizationMaria Mikhailovna Rodionova0Russia<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The study focuses on three narratives as they unfold within the academy and contextualize academic trauma. The first examines the manifestations of the classical social science structural-agency dilemma in the university setting. The second reveals the mechanisms of balancing between the objectivity demanded of the academicians and their inherent subjectivity, in the suppression of which trauma is highlighted. The third theme, built around R. Barthes’ model of idiorrhythmia, offers a theoretical understanding of the academy as a social aggregate that attempts to harmonize individual and collective experience. The lines of argument are combined into a single theoretical model, focusing on different aspects of the manifestation of the same phenomenon — trauma. Trauma reveals itself in various aspects of academic life: in informal practices that contradict formal rules, in the demands for objectivity imposed on the social researcher under the conditions of their inalienable subjectivity, in the individualization of academic life while simultaneously attempting to universalize the experience of it. At the same time, the multiple contradictions of academic life prevent critical reflection on them. The study notes the advantages and drawbacks of the autoethnographic approach to overcoming these dilemmas in the situation of the academic’s reflection on their academic experience.</span></p>https://www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/inter/article/view/5965/5799traumaidiorrhythmiacritical inquiry of academiaobjectivity and subjectivity in social sciencesidiorrhythmic conceptualization of academic lifeviolence |
| spellingShingle | Maria Mikhailovna Rodionova The Trauma of Academia: on Attempts of Idiorrhythmic Contextualization Интеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация trauma idiorrhythmia critical inquiry of academia objectivity and subjectivity in social sciences idiorrhythmic conceptualization of academic life violence |
| title | The Trauma of Academia: on Attempts of Idiorrhythmic Contextualization |
| title_full | The Trauma of Academia: on Attempts of Idiorrhythmic Contextualization |
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| title_sort | trauma of academia on attempts of idiorrhythmic contextualization |
| topic | trauma idiorrhythmia critical inquiry of academia objectivity and subjectivity in social sciences idiorrhythmic conceptualization of academic life violence |
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