The Limits of Universality
The Limits of Universality
How Field‐Specific Epistemic Conditions Affect Authority Relations and their Consequences
This chapter examines the ways in which differences between scientific fields affect the impact of changing authority relations on research goals and approaches. Comparing proximate and remote epistemic properties on research in six disciplines in the sciences and humanities, it shows how variations in resource dependence, research portfolio diversity, and other factors have impinged upon scientists' responses to resource scarcity and state restructuring in academic governance in Australia, as well as how these factors in turn reflect more deep-seated features of research styles, such as the role of personal interpretation in problem formulation, decomposability of research problems, and mode of access to empirical evidence.
Keywords: authority relations, academic research, resource scarcity, academic governance, research problems, Australia
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