Professor’s cultural life of the university as missed life

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Hamed Taheri Kia
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural and Social Studies
10.22034/jcsc.2020.89015.1644
Abstract
This article looks for analyzing how professor’s cultural and artistic consumption. We problematized it as Professor’s cultural life. How is a professor’s cultural life? For answering this question, also, we refer to the professor’s scientific life to illustrate better understand the effects his scientific life on the cultural life. Thus, based on the qualitative method, we choose University of Tehran and Free University of the central Tehran branch. These two universities have different faculties from art and human science to engineering science and we did the deep interview with 120 professors from different fields. Consequently, the professors’ scientific life is trapped in a tough official structure in which they have to publish many scientific texts otherwise they will lose their position. Therefore, professors transform into a cultural laborer who needs permanently to produce scientific texts and this is out of standards of the creative scientific productions. Then, professor despair of his position and also, Iranian university disregards the condition of professors’ cultural life. Hence, Iranian professor’s primary choice is to spend time in his/her professional field and not only is he/she not aware of the necessity of the consumption of cultural and artistic production but also his/her cultural life is in a crisis condition.

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Cultural Studies & Communication
Volume 17, Issue 63
Summer 2021
Pages 129-151