Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering

Misconceiving Merit

Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering

2022 • 259 pages

Misperceiving merit, excellence, and devotion in academic STEM -- The cultural construction of merit in academic STEM -- The work devotion schema and its consequences -- Mismeasuring merit : the schema of scientific excellence as a yardstick of merit -- Defending the schema of scientific excellence, defending inequality -- The moralization of merit : consequences for scientists and science.


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