Autonomy and intellectual work in Social Sciences graduate studies

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https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.793

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Graduate program, intellectual labor, autonomy, social sciences in Brazil, teaching and researching

Abstract

The article analyses the work practices of Brazilian social scientists in graduate programs. We critically engage with the current scholarship on the subject to raise the following questions: a) how do professors and researchers experience their work practices, particularly teaching, researching and writing? B) Is the increasing imposition of new bureaucratic mechanisms of work control threatening the autonomy of scientific work? The article answers these questions by drawing from a national survey applied in 2018 and from a set of interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018. We argue that social scientists manage to produce spaces of autonomy in their daily routines, although through a highly individualized negotiation which lacks both institutional and collective arrangements.

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Author Biographies

João Marcelo Ehlert Maia, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Doutor em Sociologia e Professor associado do CPDOC-FGV.

Jimmy Medeiros, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Doutor em Políticas Públicas, Pesquisador do CPDOC e coordenador de Ensino de Graduação da Escola de Ciências Sociais – FGV.

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Published

31-12-2021

How to Cite

Ehlert Maia, J. M., & Medeiros, J. (2021). Autonomy and intellectual work in Social Sciences graduate studies. Brazilian Journal of Sociology, 9(23), 228–255. https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.793