Sociology of higher education: Foreword
This article focuses on the topic of reform of the academic system in a managerial dimension. The article bases on an analytical review of foreign publications that describe a transition to new methods of managing higher education in the UK, Sweden, Finland, and Portugal. The article discusses how managerialization influences labor orders in the academia and changes the status hierarchy in science and higher education. The author discusses the resonance of two trends in Russian higher education, i.e. the traditional system of rigid bureaucratic supervision and modern technologies of managerial control which change labor regimes of academic professionals.