Intellectual Closure: A Theoretical Framework Linking Knowledge, Power, and the Corporate University

Critical Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 411-430

  Subramaniam, Mangala ^a   Perrucci, Robert ^a   Whitlock, David ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

higher education; intellectual closure; knowledge; social closure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900311040     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920512463412     Document Type: Article

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