The present contribution is based on an ongoing ethnography of laboratory work in a physics and a genetics laboratory, respectively. The proposed ethnographic account addresses “academic identities” as a sociological issue by turning it into the following empirical question: how, if at all, are academic identities relevant issues for laboratory work? The curious neglect of that question in both higher education and ethnographic studies provides the reason for doing so.
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Benninghoff, M., Sormani, P. (2008). Culture in Interaction: Academic Identities in Laboratory Work. In: Välimaa, J., Ylijoki, OH. (eds) Cultural Perspectives on Higher Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6604-7_8
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