Description: Rewriting the Sexual Contract, Hardcover by Dench, Geoff, ISBN 1138532029, ISBN-13 9781138532021, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us. Higher degrees have become less and less valuable on the labor market and the demand for academic reform has become more intense. Community colleges still try to provide equal educational opportunities for the poor and the minorities, without much success. And the university has not yet resolved the conflict between being the home of impartial inquiry and research and serving constituent views American higher education as a system within a definite, though changing, social context. He compares . student movements with those of other countries. He is skeptical about the way Americans view the relationships between the university and what he regards as the ruling forces of the society, between knowledge and power, between production and education. He offers no facile solutions, but he presents an exciting, nontraditional analysis of the social and political forces that have shaped the modern history of higher the new introduction, Clark Kerr contrasts his own views as an American observer to those of Touraine as a French intellectual. He asserts that the family, not higher education, is the most important "school" in the process of reproducing society. Kerr places more emphasis than does Touraine on the labor market, on the production functions (training of skills and advancing technology) of the vast nonelite segments of American higher education, on the long-term impacts of science in changing society, and on scholarly criticism in affecting transformations, and places less emphasis on sporadic political protests by faculty and agrees with Touraine however, in his two great themes: (1) that you cannot understand the academic system unless you first understand society; and (2) that the rise of the university must
Price: 217.46 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2025-01-17T09:23:21.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Rewriting the Sexual Contract
Number of Pages: 289 Pages
Publication Name: Rewriting the Sexual Contract
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Sociology / General, Gender Studies
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science
Author: Geoff Dench
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover