American idyll : academic antielitism as cultural critique / / Catherine Liu
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| Autore: |
Liu Catherine
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| Titolo: |
American idyll : academic antielitism as cultural critique / / Catherine Liu
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.5/52097309045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Elite (Social sciences) - United States |
| Intellectuals - United States | |
| Education, Higher - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions 20th century |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: populist idylls, cultural politics -- The problem with the meritocracy -- Ordinary Americans, average students -- The curious cult of religious practicality -- Against all experts: no experience necessary -- The new age of cultural studies: crisis in the PMC -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones.Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks aga |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American idyll |
| ISBN: | 1-60938-051-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824968003321 |
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