The DECAY of Merton’s scientific norms and the new academic ethos

IF 2.3 3区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Oxford Review of Education Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI:10.1080/03054985.2023.2243814
Bruce Macfarlane
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This article provides a conceptual reformulation of Merton’s scientific ethos widely known by the acronym CUDOS (i.e. communism, universalism, disinterestedness and organised scepticism). While Merton perceived the threat to the autonomy of science as coming from outside the walls of academe, mainly in the form of nationalism and racism, the subsequent rise of neoliberalism and global market forces means that the scientific ethos is being undermined largely from within the university itself, leading to the DECAY (i.e. differentialism, egoism, capitalism and advocacy) of CUDOS. The STEM-ification of the humanities and social sciences academic community has led to the rise of a post-academic ethos. This manifests itself in professional pragmatism with academics facing both ways at the same time by remaining largely committed to Mertonian norms in theory but needing to adapt to the performative demands of DECAY as a new set of institutional norms that prevails in practice.
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默顿科学规范的衰落与新的学术风气
这篇文章提供了默顿的科学精神的概念上的重新表述,众所周知的首字母缩略词CUDOS(即共产主义,普遍主义,无私和有组织的怀疑主义)。虽然默顿认为对科学自主性的威胁来自学术墙外,主要以民族主义和种族主义的形式出现,但随后新自由主义和全球市场力量的兴起意味着科学精神在很大程度上从大学内部受到破坏,导致CUDOS的衰败(即差异主义、利己主义、资本主义和倡导)。人文社会科学学术界的stem化导致了后学术思潮的兴起。这在专业实用主义中表现出来,学者们同时面对两种方式,在理论上仍然主要致力于默顿规范,但需要适应衰变的表演要求,作为一套新的制度规范,在实践中盛行。
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