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Social Science Social Classes

Degrees of Failure

University Education in Decline

by (author) Randle Nelsen

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
Sep 2017
Category
Social Classes, Higher
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771133340
    Publish Date
    Sep 2017
    List Price
    $24.95

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In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced in our universities.

Paying special attention to the role played by professors in solidifying status quo arrangements, Nelsen makes the strange familiar for those outside the university bureaucracy and the familiar strange for those whose participation in university settings is a routine part of everyday life.

About the author

Randle W. Nelsen has taught sociology in Canada and the United States for fifty years. He has written extensively on higher education, professionalism and bureaucratic work, and popular culture. He is the author of Fun & Games & Higher Education: The Lonely Crowd Revisited and Life of the Party: A Study in Sociability, Community, and Social Inequality.

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