Full Description
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Few institutions in modern society are as significant as universities, yet our historical and sociological understanding of the role of higher education has not been substantially updated for decades. By revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book recognizes these developments as having been as central to constituting the modern world as the industrial and democratic revolutions. This new interpretation of the role of universities in contemporary society promises to re-orient our understanding of the importance of higher education in the past and future development of modern societies. It will therefore appeal to scholars of social science and history with interests in social history and social change, education, the professions and inequalities.
Contents
1. The University Revolution; or Academization Process; 2. The Systemic Evolution of Universities: Ben-David's 'Centers of Learning' as World-systems Analysis; 3. The Ideological Organization of University Systems: A Theoretical Framework; 4. Paradoxes of the Academization Process: Foreign and Classical Language Education since 1864; 5. Women and Higher Education: Two Ideas of Equality in 19th-Century Britain; 6. "Without any Reason for Being": Interdisciplinarity at the 1904 World's Fair; 7. Conclusion: Reconstructing the Academic Profession
