University and the Global Knowledge Society (eBook)

David John Frank, John W. Meyer (Autoren)

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2020
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20207-5 (ISBN)

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How the university went global and became the heart of the information ageThe university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, as more universities in more countries educate more students in more fields. At the same time, the university has become central to a knowledge society based on the belief that everyone can, through higher education, access universal truths and apply them in the name of progress. This book traces the university's rise over the past hundred years to become the cultural linchpin of contemporary society, revealing how the so-called ivory tower has become profoundly interlinked with almost every area of human endeavor.David John Frank and John Meyer describe how, as the university expanded, student and faculty bodies became larger, more diverse, and more empowered to turn knowledge into action. Their contributions to society underscored the public importance of scholarship, and as the cultural authority of universities grew they increased the scope of their research and teaching interests. As a result, the university has become the bedrock of today's information-based society, an institution that is now implicated in the solution to every conceivable problem.But, as Frank and Meyer also show, the conditions that helped spur the university's recent ascendance are not immutable: eruptions of nationalism, authoritarianism, and illiberalism undercut the university's universalistic and rationalistic premises, and may threaten the centrality of the university itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus. 23 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abitur • academic degree • Accounting • Agriculture • Altruism • Ann Swidler • archaeology • Bologna Process • Business School • Career • Chronicle of Higher Education • Civil Engineering • College • College and university rankings • Commercialization • Commodity • Consultant • Contemporary Society • contemporary university • Counting • credential • Curriculum • diploma • Economic Development • economic role of university • education for all • Education in the United States • Education Policy • Empowerment • Engineering • Entrepreneurship • Environmental Science • Faculty (academic staff) • Faculty of Law • Foie Gras • Food • Global Citizenship • Globalization • globalization of the university • global university • Governance • Governmentality • Graduate school • Harvard University • higher education • Higher education policy • History of Higher Education • Honeycrisp • Hypermodernity • Ideology • Illustration • industrial school • Information Economy • Information Society • Institution • International Labour Organization • Journalism • Knowledge Economy • Knowledge Society • land-grant university • learning • Liberal arts education • Liberalization • Literary criticism • mechanical engineering • Modernity • Morality • nation state • neo-institutionalism • neo-institutionalist • New Public Management • of education • Organizational Structure • Peking University • percentage • Personhood • political role of university • Political Science • postwar university • Print Culture • Profession • professionalization • Professor • Psychology • Rector (academia) • Requirement • rise of the university • Sciences Po • social Progress • Social reality • social role of university • Social Science • Social Status • Social Structure • Society • Sociology • Sociology of Education • Student • Suggestion • Teacher • Technology • Tertiary education • Test (assessment) • threats to the university • Translational research • Understanding the university • UNESCO • Universalization • University • University of Belgrade • University of Cambridge • University of Dublin • University of Toulouse • University System • vocational education • World Bank • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20207-9 / 0691202079
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20207-5 / 9780691202075