Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation,
this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic
relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With
rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been
dominated by grades and grade point averages. The authors of
"Making the Grade "maintain that, though it has taken different
forms from tune to time, the emphasis on grades has persisted in
academic life. From this premise they argue that the social
organization giving rise to this emphasis has remained remarkably
stable throughout the century.
Becker, Geer, and Hughes discuss various aspects of college life
and examine the degree of autonomy students have over each facet of
their lives. Students negotiate with authorities the conditions of
campus political and organizational life--the student government,
independent student organizations, and the student newspaper--and
preserve substantial areas of autonomous action for themselves.
Those same authorities leave them to run such aspects of their
private lives as friendships and dating as they wish. But, when it
comes to academic matters, students are subject to the decisions of
college faculties and administrators.
Becker deals with this continuing lack of autonomy in student
life in his new introduction. He also examines new phenomena, such
as the impact of "grade inflation" and how the world of real adult
work has increasingly made professional and technical expertise, in
addition to high grades, the necessary condition for success.
"Making the Grade "continues to be an unparalleled contribution to
the studies of academics, students, and college life. It will be of
interest to university administrators, professors, students, and
sociologists.
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