The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics

The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages : 472
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015000686454
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Synopsis The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics by : Everett Carll Ladd

The Still Divided Academy

The Still Divided Academy
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781442208087
ISBN-13 : 1442208082
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Still Divided Academy by : Stanley Rothman

Drawing on data collected in a specially commissioned public opinion survey as well as other recent research on higher education, Rothman, Kelly-Woessner, and Woessner, create an incredibly readable presentation of both the similarities and differences between those running our universities and those attending them. The authors manage to remain impressively neutral; instead they give us a fuller perspective of the people on our college campuses.

The Divided Academy

The Divided Academy
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Publisher : W. W. Norton
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 0393008371
ISBN-13 : 9780393008371
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The Divided Academy by : Everett Carll Ladd

Professors and Their Politics

Professors and Their Politics
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9781421413358
ISBN-13 : 1421413353
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Professors and Their Politics by : Neil Gross

Despite assumptions in some quarters of widespread academic radicalism, professors are politically liberal but on the whole democratically tolerant and are focused more on the business of research and teaching than on trying to change the world. Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics and higher education to present evidence to the contrary. In eleven meaty chapters, contributors describe the political makeup of American academia today, consider the causes of its liberal tilt, discuss the college experience for politically conservative students, and delve into historical debates about professorial politics. Offering readable, rigorous analyses rather than polemics, Professors and Their Politics yields important new insights into the nature of higher education institutions while challenging dogmas of both the left and the right.

Passing on the Right

Passing on the Right
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780199863051
ISBN-13 : 0199863059
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Passing on the Right by : Jon A. Shields

Liberals represent a large majority of American faculty, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Does minority status affect the work of conservative scholars or the academy as a whole? In Passing on the Right, Dunn and Shields explore the actual experiences of conservative academics, examining how they navigate their sometimes hostile professional worlds. Offering a nuanced picture of this political minority, this book will engage academics and general readers on both sides of the political spectrum.

The New Class?

The New Class?
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 1412829550
ISBN-13 : 9781412829557
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Class? by : B. Bruce-Briggs

Indoctrination U.

Indoctrination U.
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Publisher : Encounter Books
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9781594032370
ISBN-13 : 1594032378
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Indoctrination U. by : David Horowitz

In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an "Academic Bill of Rights" and launched a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses. His efforts have led to the passage of an Academic Bill of Rights by student governments from Montana to Maine; have inspired the adoption of student-specific academic freedom rights at Temple University and Penn State; and have dramatically transformed the national debate on academic issues.

The Bias That Divides Us

The Bias That Divides Us
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780262045759
ISBN-13 : 0262045753
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bias That Divides Us by : Keith E. Stanovich

Why we don't live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics. In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keith Stanovich argues provocatively that we don't live in a post-truth society, as has been claimed, but rather a myside society. Our problem is not that we are unable to value and respect truth and facts, but that we are unable to agree on commonly accepted truth and facts. We believe that our side knows the truth. Post-truth? That describes the other side. The inevitable result is political polarization. Stanovich shows what science can tell us about myside bias: how common it is, how to avoid it, and what purposes it serves. Stanovich explains that although myside bias is ubiquitous, it is an outlier among cognitive biases. It is unpredictable. Intelligence does not inoculate against it, and myside bias in one domain is not a good indicator of bias shown in any other domain. Stanovich argues that because of its outlier status, myside bias creates a true blind spot among the cognitive elite--those who are high in intelligence, executive functioning, or other valued psychological dispositions. They may consider themselves unbiased and purely rational in their thinking, but in fact they are just as biased as everyone else. Stanovich investigates how this bias blind spot contributes to our current ideologically polarized politics, connecting it to another recent trend: the decline of trust in university research as a disinterested arbiter.

The Politically Correct University

The Politically Correct University
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780844743172
ISBN-13 : 0844743178
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politically Correct University by : Robert Maranto

Political correctness if one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading. --Michael Schwartz, president emeritus, Kent State University and Cleveland State University

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780226925028
ISBN-13 : 0226925021
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals by : David L. Swartz

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.