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The Lonely Crowd, Revised edition: A Study of the Changing American Character
: :The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era.
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The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College
: :The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era.
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The Academic Revolution (Higher Education Series)
: :The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well. Without attempting a full-scale history of American higher education, it outlines a theory about its development and present status. It is illustrated with firsthand observations of a wide variety of colleges and universities the country over - colleges for the rich and colleges for the upwardly mobile; colleges for vocationally oriented men and colleges for intellectually and socially oriented women: colleges for Catholics and ...
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The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
: :The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well. Without attempting a full-scale history of American higher education, it outlines a theory about its development and present status. It is illustrated with firsthand observations of a wide variety of colleges and universities the country over - colleges for the rich and colleges for the upwardly mobile; colleges for vocationally oriented men and colleges for intellectually and socially oriented women: colleges for Catholics and ...
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Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History (Eastern European Studies , No 2)
: :The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well. Without attempting a full-scale history of American higher education, it outlines a theory about its development and present status. It is illustrated with firsthand observations of a wide variety of colleges and universities the country over - colleges for the rich and colleges for the upwardly mobile; colleges for vocationally oriented men and colleges for intellectually and socially oriented women: colleges for Catholics and ...
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Abundance For What? And Other Essays
: :The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well. Without attempting a full-scale history of American higher education, it outlines a theory about its development and present status. It is illustrated with firsthand observations of a wide variety of colleges and universities the country over - colleges for the rich and colleges for the upwardly mobile; colleges for vocationally oriented men and colleges for intellectually and socially oriented women: colleges for Catholics and ...
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The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East
: :The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well. Without attempting a full-scale history of American higher education, it outlines a theory about its development and present status. It is illustrated with firsthand observations of a wide variety of colleges and universities the country over - colleges for the rich and colleges for the upwardly mobile; colleges for vocationally oriented men and colleges for intellectually and socially oriented women: colleges for Catholics and ...
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On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism (Foundations of Higher Education)
: :This text is about the consequences of the student revolt of the 1960s and the decline of faculty influence. This shift of emphasis to student consumerism is one of two reversals of direction in American higher education. The other is the replacement of the classical college by modern university.
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Choosing a College President: Opportunities and Constraints (A Special Report)
: :This text is about the consequences of the student revolt of the 1960s and the decline of faculty influence. This shift of emphasis to student consumerism is one of two reversals of direction in American higher education. The other is the replacement of the classical college by modern university.
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Abundance for What?
: :This text is about the consequences of the student revolt of the 1960s and the decline of faculty influence. This shift of emphasis to student consumerism is one of two reversals of direction in American higher education. The other is the replacement of the classical college by modern university.
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