University Revolution - Outline of a Processual Theory of Modern Higher Education

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Few institutions in modern society are as significant as universities, yet our historical and sociological understanding of the role of higher education has not been substantially updated for decades. By revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book recognizes these developments as having been as central to constituting the modern world as the industrial and democratic revolutions. This new interpretation of the role of universities in contemporary society promises to re-orient our understanding of the importance of higher education in the past and future development of modern societies. It will therefore appeal to scholars of social science and history with interests in social history and social change, education, the professions and inequalities.

List of contents

1. The University Revolution; or Academization Process; 2. The Systemic Evolution of Universities: Ben-David's 'Centers of Learning' as World-systems Analysis; 3. The Ideological Organization of University Systems: A Theoretical Framework; 4. Paradoxes of the Academization Process: Foreign and Classical Language Education since 1864; 5. Women and Higher Education: Two Ideas of Equality in 19th-Century Britain; 6. "Without any Reason for Being": Interdisciplinarity at the 1904 World's Fair; 7. Conclusion: Reconstructing the Academic Profession

About the author

Eric Lybeck is Presidential Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK, and co-editor of Sociological Amnesia: Cross Currents in Disciplinary History. He is editor-in-chief of the open-access journal, Civic Sociology.

Summary

Revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book offers a new interpretation of the role of universities in contemporary society, thus re-orienting our understanding of the importance of higher education in the past and future development of modern societies.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Lybeck, Eric (University of Manchester Lybeck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2023
• EAN: 9781032020327
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3202032-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Philosophy & theory of education, Moral and social purpose of education, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher