Abstract

This article discusses how three other articles have employed E.P. Thompson’s concept of the moral economy to analyse movements of resistance to higher education (HE) marketisation processes. Two of the studies relate to the English HE sector while one is a study of the Israeli system. The articles were selected because they are indicative of one of the key challenges that scholars working within the sociology of higher education may encounter when applying Thompson’s ideas: rendering a faithful sense of the temporality which is foundational to Thompson’s concept, and which makes it such a powerful tool of critique regarding dominant hegemonic processes such as higher education marketisation. I conclude the article with a discussion of the challenges that arise in transferring a concept that originated in history to the sociology of higher education.

摘要

本文讨论了其他三篇文章如何利用 EP Thompson 的道德经济概念来分析抵制高等教育 (HE) 市场化进程的运动。其中两项研究与英国高等教育部门有关，一项是对以色列系统的研究。之所以选择这些文章，是因为它们表明了从事高等教育社会学工作的学者在应用 Thompson 的思想时可能遇到的关键挑战之一：忠实地理解作为 Thompson 概念的基础的时间性，这使得它成为批判高等教育市场化等主导霸权过程的有力工具。