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The Academic System in American Society (Hardcover)
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The Academic System in American Society (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations of Higher Education
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Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has
long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and
vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us. Higher
degrees have become less and less valuable on the labor market and
the demand for academic reform has become more intense. Community
colleges still try to provide equal educational opportunities for
the poor and the minorities, without much success. And the
university has not yet resolved the conflict between being the home
of impartial inquiry and research and serving constituent
interests. Touraine views American higher education as a system
within a definite, though changing, social context. He compares
U.S. student movements with those of other countries. He is
skeptical about the way Americans view the relationships between
the university and what he regards as the ruling forces of the
society, between knowledge and power, between production and
education. He offers no facile solutions, but he presents an
exciting, nontraditional analysis of the social and political
forces that have shaped the modern history of higher education. In
the new introduction, Clark Kerr contrasts his own views as an
American observer to those of Touraine as a French intellectual. He
asserts that the family, not higher education, is the most
important "school" in the process of reproducing society. Kerr
places more emphasis than does Touraine on the labor market, on the
production functions (training of skills and advancing technology)
of the vast nonelite segments of American higher education, on the
long-term impacts of science in changing society, and on scholarly
criticism in affecting transformations, and places less emphasis on
sporadic political protests by faculty and students. He agrees with
Touraine however, in his two great themes: (1) that you cannot
understand the academic system unless you first understand society;
and (2) that the rise of the university must be understood to
understand modern society, where "knowledge is power." This volume
will be important to all those interested in higher education,
whether as participants or observers.
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