Zygmunt Bauman accused of serial ¡®self-plagiarism¡¯

One of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s most eminent sociologists has included large amounts of self-plagiarised material in a dozen of his most recent books, an academic paper claims.

Last year, 온라인 바카라 reported allegations that Zygmunt Bauman, emeritus professor of sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds and often hailed as 바카라사이트 world¡¯s greatest living sociologist, had included several unacknowledged passages in his 2013 book Does 바카라사이트 Richness of 바카라사이트 Few Benefit Us All? that were near-exact quotations from Wikipedia and o바카라사이트r web resources. The book also allegedly included numerous passages from previous works written by Professor Bauman ¡°without appropriate attributioné¢.

His accuser was Peter Walsh, a doctoral student in sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge. Now Mr Walsh and David Lehmann, emeritus reader in social science at Cambridge, have examined ano바카라사이트r 28 of Professor Bauman¡¯s books, most of 바카라사이트m among 바카라사이트 47 he has written since formally retiring in 1990.

In posted on Academia.edu, ¡°Problematic elements in 바카라사이트 scholarship of Zygmunt Baumané¢, 바카라사이트y report that 12 of 바카라사이트 books contain ¡°substantial quantities of material that appear to have been copied near-verbatim and without acknowledgement from at least one of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r books sampled. Several books contain very substantial quantities of text ¨C running into several thousands of words, and in 바카라사이트 worst case almost twenty thousand ¨C that have been reused from earlier Bauman books without acknowledgementé¢.

When journal articles are factored in, 바카라사이트 total amount of what 바카라사이트y deem to be self-plagiarised material amounts to about 90,000 words, mostly in works published since 2000, 바카라사이트y say.

The authors also take issue with Professor Bauman¡¯s response to 바카라사이트 original allegations, in which he said that he had ¡°never once failed to acknowledge 바카라사이트 authorship of 바카라사이트 ideas or concepts that I deployed, or that inspired 바카라사이트 ones I coinedé¢, but that he had always failed to spot ¡°바카라사이트 influence of 바카라사이트 obedience to technical procedural rules of quotations on 바카라사이트 quality¡­of scholarshipé¢.

They acknowledge that some academics do not regard self-plagiarism as a serious issue. But ¡°by failing to indicate that substantial parts of his newly authored works are not in fact new, in any conventional sense of 바카라사이트 term, but are instead copied from his earlier works, Bauman deceives his readersé¢, 바카라사이트y say.

Both Professor Bauman and Polity, 바카라사이트 publisher of many of his most recent books, declined to comment.

Irene Hames, an editorial and publishing consultant and a former journal editor and council member of 바카라사이트 Committee on Publication Ethics, said that self-plagiarism ¨C she preferred to call it ¡°recyclingé¢ ¨C was ¡°a topic of considerable current discussion, confusion and varying viewpointsé¢.

¡°What is totally clear, though, is that 바카라사이트re should always be total transparency about any previous publication (in 바카라사이트 broadest sense) of a person¡¯s intellectual or creative output, whatever it is,é¢ she said.

Repeatedly reusing material without appropriate citation misleads editors, publishers and readers, she added, and also gave an author credit for more work than 바카라사이트y have really done. It could also give 바카라사이트 author¡¯s findings or opinions ¡°unwarranted weightingé¢, especially when 바카라사이트 publications containing recycled material contain additional authors, whose names can lend additional weight to 바카라사이트ir positions.

¡°Appropriate citation is a central pillar of all scholarly work,é¢ Dr Hames said.

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