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An interdisciplinary field that applies social science frameworks to the academic system itself—its institutions, hierarchies, labor conditions, knowledge production, and relationship to society. It examines how universities are governed, how disciplines compete for resources, how academic careers are structured, how prestige is allocated, and how the academy reproduces or challenges social inequalities. The social sciences of academy treat academia not as a neutral pursuit of truth but as a social system with its own politics, economies, and cultures.
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