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Ishikawa, Mayumi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
World university rankings and their global popularity present a number of far-reaching impacts for vernacular scholarship. This article employs a multidimensional approach to analyze the ranking regime's threat to local scholarship and knowledge construction through a study of Japanese research universities. First, local conditions that have led…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Futures (of Society), Research Universities
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Chew, Matthew M. – International Education Studies, 2008
Sociologists of knowledge find that academic stratification is present among individual scholars, genders, networks, fields, and all kinds of scientific organizations, while communications scholars have been studying global cultural asymmetry for a long time. Yet few researchers have explored the global dimension of academic stratification. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Organizational Development, Social Stratification