Knowledge Formations: An Analytic Framework
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2017
Keywords
knowledge formation, discipline, research, organization, university, foundation, Mode 2
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198733522.013.2
Abstract
Knowledge is socially distributed, and the distribution of knowledge is socially structured, but the distribution and the structures within which it is produced and reproduced—often two separate things—have varied enormously. Disciplines are one knowledge formation of special significance. They can be thought of as very old, or as a very recent phenomenon: In the very old sense, disciplines begin with the creation of rituals of certification and exclusion related to knowledge; in the more recent sense, they are the product of university organization, and especially that part of university organization that joins research and teaching, knowledge production and reproduction, in the modern research university. If we understand the general structural constraints on knowledge formations, we can understand the peculiar strengths of disciplines, as well as the historical alternatives to disciplines and the motives for finding alternatives.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Knowledge Formations: An Analytic Framework, in R. Frodeman (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (2nd Ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 9-20
Scholar Commons Citation
Turner, Stephen, "Knowledge Formations: An Analytic Framework" (2017). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 82.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phi_facpub/82
