Episode 13 · Season II · S2.E2 · Mar 9, 2026
From Knowledge to Legitimacy: How Institutions Decide What Counts
How do ideas become legitimate knowledge? Drawing on Foucault, Kuhn, Merton, and Bourdieu, this episode examines how universities, journals, and academic institutions decide what counts as credible through power and gatekeeping.
“Legitimacy is the residue of who has been allowed to confer it.”
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