The Study of Cultural Change in Three Generations of aAcademicians (Case Study: Professors of Social Sciences at Tehran Universities)
Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 2013, Pages 30-64
M. A. Ghanei Rad, A. Maleki, Z. Mohammadi
Abstract Science institution and university have their own cultures and like other phenomena have been changed over time. It seems Iranian academic culture has changed in recent years. The paper aims to study cultural changes at university and its consequences. The research method is qualitative and in order to capture the meaning domain, Grounded Theory (GT) is used. In this study, we have conducted semistructured interviews with 34 lectures of social sciences at Tehran universities. Coding and data extraction is performed with the use of Atlas/ Ti software. The findings consist of the major categories of social, intervening and contextual conditions, recruitment, evaluation and promotion of professors, knowledge organization and professors' strategies. According to the interactions between conditions and phenomena in terms of cultural transition, descriptive narration displayed on the core category of "recruitment, evaluation and promotion" which represents anomy of knowledge production and knowledge transmission.