Limiting Privilege
Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
Seiten
2023
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61249-882-9 (ISBN)
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61249-882-9 (ISBN)
State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities—all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Łódź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.
Agata Zysiak, PhD, is a historical sociologist at Vienna University in Austria and the University of Łódź in Poland. She is the author of the award-winning book, Punkty za pochodzenie (Points for Social Origin); coauthor of the main publication about Łódź available in English, From Cotton and Smoke; and the author of Wielki przemysł, wielka cisza (Great Industry, Great Silence), which covers Lodz industry and its collapse.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Central European Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | West Lafayette |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-61249-882-5 / 1612498825 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-61249-882-9 / 9781612498829 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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