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In an Age of Experts: The Changing Roles of Professionals in Politics and Public Life
Steven Brint
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Paperback. Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. This title challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 442.
Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence over cultural values and public affairs. The rise of this putative "new class" has been greeted with idealistic hope or ideological suspicion on both the right and the left. In an Age of Experts challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated, and that the political preferences of professionals are much more closely linked to those of business owners and executives ... Read more
Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence over cultural values and public affairs. The rise of this putative "new class" has been greeted with idealistic hope or ideological suspicion on both the right and the left. In an Age of Experts challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated, and that the political preferences of professionals are much more closely linked to those of business owners and executives ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691026077
SKU
V9780691026077
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99-1
About Steven Brint
Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coauthor, with Jerome Karabel, of the award-winning study The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985.
Reviews for In an Age of Experts: The Changing Roles of Professionals in Politics and Public Life
"Brint's important book ... tackles very large and complex questions about the changing roles of the professions in advanced capitalist societies... It continues lines of analysis that have been pursued since the classic turn-of-the-century works of sociology, and it does so with great success."
Contemporary Sociology "Brint's important book ... tackles very large and complex questions about the changing roles of ... Read more
Contemporary Sociology "Brint's important book ... tackles very large and complex questions about the changing roles of ... Read more