University and Society

University and Society

Author: Ágnes Kövér

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1788974719

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What role can the university play in the broader community or society in which it is embedded? Must it remain segregated in the halls of science and knowledge, which tower above the community? This book examines the growing number of questions and concerns around university-community relations by exploring widely accepted theories and practices and placing them under new light.


Citizenship and Higher Education

Citizenship and Higher Education

Author: James Arthur

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-03-16

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1134312172

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This comparative text considers models of higher education in the UK and the US and individuals' perceptions about the role of university in society.


Education and Society

Education and Society

Author: Thurston Domina

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0520295587

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Drawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students’ own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, Education and Society provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society.


School, Society, and State

School, Society, and State

Author: Tracy L. Steffes

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0226772098

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This book examines the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.


College and Society

College and Society

Author: Stephen Sweet

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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A brief book that uses examples from a college or university setting to illustrate society in terms of social groups and forces. College and Society is based on the premise that colleges are not "ivory towers" that stand in contrast to the larger society. Rather, the author argues that colleges tend to reflect many of the same social structures, culturally based expectations of social conduct, and patterns of interaction seen at work in the larger society. For anyone interested in learning basic concepts of Sociology.


The University and the Global Knowledge Society

The University and the Global Knowledge Society

Author: David John Frank

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0691202079

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How the university went global and became the heart of the information age The university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, as more universities in more countries educate more students in more fields. At the same time, the university has become central to a knowledge society based on the belief that everyone can, through higher education, access universal truths and apply them in the name of progress. This book traces the university's rise over the past hundred years to become the cultural linchpin of contemporary society, revealing how the so-called ivory tower has become profoundly interlinked with almost every area of human endeavor. David John Frank and John Meyer describe how, as the university expanded, student and faculty bodies became larger, more diverse, and more empowered to turn knowledge into action. Their contributions to society underscored the public importance of scholarship, and as the cultural authority of universities grew they increased the scope of their research and teaching interests. As a result, the university has become the bedrock of today's information-based society, an institution that is now implicated in the solution to every conceivable problem. But, as Frank and Meyer also show, the conditions that helped spur the university's recent ascendance are not immutable: eruptions of nationalism, authoritarianism, and illiberalism undercut the university's universalistic and rationalistic premises, and may threaten the centrality of the university itself.


Higher Education and Society

Higher Education and Society

Author: Joseph L. DeVitis

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433128707

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This book is essential for all those who study and work in today's colleges and for all those who seek a better education for their children, the nation, and the world. It is recommended for courses in higher education and society, contemporary issues in higher education, philosophy of higher education, academic issues in higher education, leadership and globalization and higher education.


The Credential Society

The Credential Society

Author: Randall Collins

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0231549784

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The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.


Schools and Society

Schools and Society

Author: Jeanne H. Ballantine

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1544302398

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The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the sociology of education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book’s range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced researchers and instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field’s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.