You don't have to explain this to me if you don't want to of course. But can you unpack what you mean by "inclusive of working class work culture"? I genuinely don't understand.
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Replying to @o_guest @Jade_Pickering and
Separation of friends and colleagues is, at least in the UK, traditionally a middle class state of affairs as working clas folk traditionally all worked in the same industry and lived in the same town - twas traditional for them to go to a pub with colleagues / friends after work
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Replying to @BeesAndBaking @o_guest and
Working class work culture therefore embraces drinking with colleagues and counting them also as personal friends - which is one of the few things UK academia does well
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Replying to @BeesAndBaking @o_guest and
'professionalism' in other industries and academia in the US enforces a 'colleagues not pals' paradigm as 'appropriate' and typically looks down on colleagues drinking together socially
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Replying to @BeesAndBaking @o_guest and
When that happens, the way the working classes go about handling their professional relationships is branded unprofessional and inappropriate, therefore exclusionary. UK academia tends to be very good at now doing this, and as a consequence maintains 'horizontal' hierarchy too
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Replying to @BeesAndBaking @Jade_Pickering and
What's horizontal hierarchy?
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Replying to @o_guest @Jade_Pickering and
Equality of treatment amongst / between people regardless of perceived 'rank'. PhD students will talk to professors very informally, relaxed, without titles etc. much as they would to another PhD student
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Replying to @BeesAndBaking @Jade_Pickering and
Ah, I would call that no hierarchy but yeah, got you. So, we must be in very different fields as that is certainly not the case in my field.
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Replying to @o_guest @Jade_Pickering and
Ecology - and every other discipline with 'fieldwork' and few connections to industry tends to be at the extreme end of it - no enforcement of corporate paradigms through industry transfers and living with your boss camping in tents for weeks really breaks down boundaries hah
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Replying to @BeesAndBaking @o_guest and
But even in those fields it's much more profound in the UK than elsewhere (US, Germany)
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I see. This certainly explains how my view of academia is dramatically different to yours.
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Replying to @o_guest @BeesAndBaking and
And I’ve never done field work in my life but my experiences are for the most part similar to Lewis’s
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