Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

Informationen zum Autor Neil Gross is Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College. Klappentext Neil Gross shows that the U.S. academy's liberal reputation has exerted a self-selecting influence on young liberals! while deterring promising conservatives. His study sheds new light on both academic life and American politics! where the conservative movement was built in part around opposition to the "liberal elite" in higher education. Zusammenfassung Neil Gross shows that the U.S. academy’s liberal reputation has exerted a self-selecting influence on young liberals, while deterring promising conservatives. His study sheds new light on both academic life and American politics, where the conservative movement was built in part around opposition to the “liberal elite” in higher education.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Neil Gross, Gross Neil
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674059092
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05909-2
• Seiten: 400
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Erwachsenenbildung; Sociology, Political Ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Higher education, tertiary education, Political ideologies and movements, Colleges of higher education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher