- Geertz (1973).
- Lamont and Lareau (1988).
- This pattern is hardly surprising. Stephen Jay Gould pointed out that
“humanists rightly stress the virtues and felicities of stylistic writing,” while
“scientists tend to assert that although brevity and clarity should certainly be
fostered, verbal style plays no role in the study of material reality.” See Gould
(2003). Similarly, inHomo Academicus,Pierre Bourdieu compared the relative
cultural capital of various disciplines and described the humanities as “ca-
nonical” disciplines, and ones where familiarity with elite culture is particu-
larly important. See Bourdieu (1988, 176, 255–256, 339). - At the same time, this philosopher acknowledges that in his discipline,
elegance “goes with manner, appearance, superficiality. It’s a way both of ad-
miring and of putting someone down.” - Bourdieu (1988).
- On this point, see Bourdieu (1984).
- Recent work has documented more refined domains of classism, such
as interpersonal classism via separation, devaluation, discounting, and exclu-
sion, as well as institutionalized classism and stereotype citation. Regina Day
Langhout, Francine Rosselli, and Jonathan Feinstein found that 43 to 80 per-
cent of the working-class college students they surveyed had experienced at
least one form of classism. See Langhout, Rosselli, and Feinstein (2007). - As a group, the respondents do not seem so much to view working-
class student applicants as less accomplished as they seem unaware that sig-
nals of brilliance often resemble signals of upper-middle-class upbringing, or
of having grown up in an academic household. On working-class students,
see Granfield (1991); also Stuber (2006). These class dynamics have not been
studied for graduate student populations. Autobiographical essays of work-
ing-class academics, however, provide numerous examples of instances where
an uneasy cultural fit leads to lower academic evaluation. See Dews and Law
(1995); also http://www.workingclassacademics.org. - Davis (1971).
- This is in line with Daston and Galison (2007).
- Latour (1987; 1988).
- On the closing of controversies, see Epstein (1996). Also Martin and
Richards (1995). - Guetzkow, Lamont, and Mallard (2004).
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