When Will Academics Contest Intellectual Conflict?:

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

MarkCooney¹ 

关键词: intellectual conflict;    conflict management;    academic life;    social geometry;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2378023117713099

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Academics have conflicts over ideas with some regularity, yet they contest only some of them. When will they do so? We draw on a theory of conflict management developed by Donald Black and others to explain the response to intellectual conflict. Drawing on interviews with 70 professors at two universities, we find that the contestation of intellectual conflicts is predicted by their social geometry. Academics are more likely to contest conflicts over the validity, ownership, and production of ideas when the conflict spans greater distances in relational and functional space, originates from a lower elevation in vertical space, and is a larger actual or potential change in vertical space.

【 授权许可】

CC BY