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How university rankings are made through globally coordinated action: a transnational institutional ethnography in the sociology of quantification.
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Higher Education (00181560) . Oct2023, Vol. 86 Issue 4, p809-826. 18p. 1 Diagram, 1 Chart. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The sociologies of quantification, university rankings, and infrastructure are a loosely connected set of scholarly endeavors. Research in these areas typically examines production of certain types of quantification, their effects, and institutionalization. Despite these commonalities, scholars have noted a lack of conceptual coherence, debates on how to study quantification, a need to examine their socio-epistemological prerequisites, and research that crosses organization and national boundaries. In this paper, I argue that institutional ethnography—an alternative sociology for people—provides a unifying ontology for the sociology of quantification and studies of rankings and metrics in higher education. Institutional ethnography examines socio-epistemological prerequisites of quantification and facilitates a collaborative transnational project due to its focus on the extra local coordination of action. I also share results of the first transnational institutional ethnography of university rankings and related metrics, demonstrating coordinated action across several junctures of what has been called a global university ranking surveillance assemblage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00181560
- Volume :
- 86
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Higher Education (00181560)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173237103
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00903-y