Doing science in a culture of accountability: Compliance through resistance to alienation and estrangement

Kotuitui

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-40

  Hunt, Lesley ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alienation; Compliance; Corporatisation; Estrangement; Ethnography; Normative control; Resistance; Restructuring; Science practice; Self identity; Sociology of work; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549105087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1177083X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2009.9522442     Document Type: Article

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