The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University - Hardcover

Soares, Joseph A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804734887 ISBN 13: 9780804734882

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1999

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Book by Soares Joseph

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"Once there was an ancient foundation, a seat of privilege and powerful connections. Then, quickly, quietly, working from within, it modernized itself. But old myths clung like ivy, failing to reflect the meritocratic make-over, and exposing it in due course to attacks from the Left and Right-attacks to which it was all the more vulnerable for the loss of its old Establishment friends and new dependence on the public purse. This is the tale told by Joseph Soares in The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University, and he tells it enormously well, with a wealth of carefully researched detail, a sharp sense of paradox, and a nice balance between intellectual framework and the living zest of incident and personality." -- Oxford Today "Soares writes a lively narrative full of interesting sketches of individuals and events. He navigates the arcane relationships between the Oxford colleges and the University with great clarity. And he deftly handles the ironies of the "Oxford Myth" and its obfuscation of the realities of modern Oxford." -- History of Education Quarterly

Reseña del editor:

Best Book Award, 2000, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association This book studies Oxford University's transformation-and the political hazards for academics that ensued-when, after World War II, it changed from a private liberal-arts club with aristocratic pretensions into a state university heavily committed to the natural sciences, and with a middle-class consituency and a meritocratic ethos.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0804734887
• ISBN 13: 9780804734882
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340