Strategies of Discourse and Knowledge Use in the Practice of Bureaucratic Research

Abstract

In certain settings, social research becomes embedded in a form of bureaucratic politics that revolves around contests for status, power, and autonomy among participants in the research process. Written and verbal discourse are key resources in such contests. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analyzing their uses and employs this framework in a case study analysis of bureaucratic politics on a large federally funded educational research project. The study suggests that much of the political activity in such situations revolves around attempts to manipulate

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