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Schools and Societies: Third Edition by Steven Brint
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.75Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Acknowledged as a standard text in... -
The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University by Steven Brint
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €114.78Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a... -
The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University by Steven Brint 9780804745314
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a... -
In an Age of Experts: The Changing Roles of Professionals in Politics and Public Life by Steven Brint
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence... -
The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985 by Steven Brint 9780195048162
Booksplease Price: €50.12In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools-and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities-as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of... -
Two Cheers for Higher Education: Why American Universities Are Stronger Than Ever-and How to Meet the Challenges They Face by Steven Brint 9780691210285
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.55A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successesCrushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech... -
Citizen Politics In Post-industrial Societies by Michael Rempel
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30The past several decades have seen profound changes in the political landscapes of advanced industrial societies. This volume assesses key political developments and links them to underlying... -
Public Sociology: The Contemporary Debate by Lawrence T. Nichols
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Public Sociology features a wide-ranging discussion of the controversial model of a social science that reaches out to non-academic audiences, including both average citizens and policymakers. This... -
Childhood Socialization James Garbarino 9780202306421
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.66This collection of authoritative studies portrays how the A basic agencies of socialization transform the newborn human organism into a social person capable of interacting with others. Socialization... -
Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours by Paul Starr 9780231203661
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €108.84The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major... -
Professionalism: The Third Logic by Eliot Freidson 9780745603315
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.29Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the... -
Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace by Roger L. Geiger
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Market forces have profoundly affected the contemporary research university's fundamental tasks of creating and disseminating knowledge. They arguably have provided American universities access to... -
Professions: A Key Idea for Business and Society Mike Saks 9781138610415
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21Professions and professionalism have played an integral part in business and society. In this book, Mike Saks provides a thorough overview of this field through an analysis of a range of professions,... -
Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours by Paul Starr
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major... -
The Decline of Antiracism and the Future of Progressive Politics: Building Race and Class Alliances for a Better Future John Torpey 9781041084808
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Examining contemporary antiracism and its contributions to progressive politics, The Decline of Antiracism and the Future of Progressive Politics argues that contemporary antiracism has ignored the... -
Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought by Myra Strober
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43Interest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this growing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynamics, rewards, and... -
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life by Thomas J. Espenshade
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.89Against the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body? No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls... -
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life by Thomas J. Espenshade 9780691141602
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €53.01Against the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body? No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls... -
Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University by Diana Rhoten 9780231151146
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.67Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities... -
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality by Elizabeth A. Armstrong 9780674088023
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €21.49Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she...