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- Title
Scholarship Suppression: Theoretical Perspectives and Emerging Trends.
- Authors
Stevens, Sean T.; Jussim, Lee; Honeycutt, Nathan
- Abstract
This paper explores the suppression of ideas within an academic scholarship by academics, either by self-suppression or because of the efforts of other academics. Legal, moral, and social issues distinguishing freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, and academic freedom are reviewed. How these freedoms and protections can come into tension is then explored by an analysis of denunciation mobs that exercise their legal free speech rights to call for punishing scholars who express ideas they disapprove of and condemn. When successful, these efforts, which constitute legally protected speech, will suppress certain ideas. Real-world examples over the past five years of academics that have been sanctioned or terminated for scholarship targeted by a denunciation mob are then explored.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC freedom; FREEDOM of speech; SCHOLARSHIPS; PUNISHMENT; SCHOOL year; MORAL panics; MOBS
- Publication
Societies (2075-4698), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 4, p82
- ISSN
2075-4698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/soc10040082