The Authorship Experience in Sociology: the Balance between Institutional Canons and Individual Style

Student: Maltsev Mikhail

Educational Programme: Complex Social Analysis (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The present study is focused on authorship experiences in sociology, as well as on the balance between individual style and institutional canons in sociological prose. How is the author’s voice expressed in conventions (if expressed at all)? How is relationship with the genre organised? What biographical decisions related to interaction with writing are made? These questions are placed at the center of research reflection.   The theoretical framework of the study incorporates research on the academic world (H. Becker, S. Fuller, etc.) and works on social philosophy (R. Barthes, M. Focault).   The empirical data analysed in the study are constituted by 11 biographical interviews conducted with authors who belong to different Russian sociological schools.

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