Maton, K. (2005) The Field of Higher Education: A sociology of reproduction, transformation, change and the conditions of emergence for cultural studies. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge.
Though often equated with 'LCT', most of the above papers have excavated only two dimensions of the overall framework of Legitimation Code Theory, namely Specialisation and Semantics. The wider framework from which this dimension is taken is set out in this PhD. The thesis outlines four of the five dimensions: Autonomy, Density, Specialisation and Temporality, which together comprise the Legitimation Device. (The Semantic dimension is a more recent development). This framework is developed through and used in a major empirical study of the changes in post-war British higher education that enabled the emergence of British cultural studies. The Legitimation Device provides the most complete analysis of social and symbolic structuring thus far.