| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
℗¡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 against an entrenched aristocracy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences) -- United States
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Intellectuals -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Education, Higher
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Intellectuals
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609380519 |
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1609380517 |
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