Boredom and Academic Work

Boredom and Academic Work provides a sociological perspective on boredom and academic work, offering a definition, an interactive approach, and insights into the influence of the academic system on well-being, motivation, emotions, and practices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 30 July 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Introducing the notion of boredom into the academic context, Boredom and Academic Work proposes a fresh sociological perspective on boredom and academic work alike. It invites a reader to reflect on the essence of boredom and the nature of academic work from the sociological perspective. It constitutes methodological and conceptual guidance for all those interested in their own emotions both at work and outside. It also provides an original, interactive, and essential definition of boredom and a novel standpoint for observing academic work, both in its systemic and practical levels, and shows how the academic system influences its subjects' well-being, motivation, emotions, and practices.

Covering various approaches from the qualitative methodology, linguistics, sociology of work, emotions, and higher education, and telling a story of research and teaching university staff, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas and the general academic public as well.

Weight: 502g
Dimension: 160 x 241 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032018355