How Professors Think,9780674057333

How Professors Think

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ISBN13: 9780674057333
ISBN10: 0674057333
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-10-30
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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This is an Informative textbook for academics from all disciplines. Lamont studies how academics make decisions in real life. The context of the investigation is the expert panel work that some academics do on behalf of funding agencies in social sciences and humanities, so readers from those fields interested in getting funding should find the textbook as a useful tool.


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Summary

In the academic evaluation system known as "peer review," highly respected professors pass judgment on the work of others. But only those present know exactly what is said. Michle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants, and interviewed panel members at length. In How Professors Think, she reveals what she discovered about this secretive and powerful world. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Michle Lamont is Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Opening the Black Box of Peer Reviewp. 1
How Panels Workp. 22
On Disciplinary Culturesp. 53
Pragmatic Fairness: Customary Rules of Deliberationp. 107
Recognizing Various Kinds of Excellencep. 159
Considering Interdisciplinarity and Diversityp. 202
Implications in the United States and Abroadp. 239
Appendix: Methods and Data Analysisp. 251
Notesp. 259
Referencesp. 289
Acknowledgmentsp. 316
Indexp. 321
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