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Despite assumptions in some quarters of widespread academic radicalism, professors are politically liberal but on the whole democratically tolerant and are focused more on the business of research and teaching than on trying to change the world.
Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics and higher education to present evidence to the contrary. In eleven meaty chapters, contributors describe the political makeup of American academia today, consider the causes of its liberal tilt, discuss the college experience for politically conservative students, and delve into historical debates about professorial politics.
Offering readable, rigorous analyses rather than polemics, Professors and Their Politics yields important new insights into the nature of higher education institutions while challenging dogmas of both the left and the right.
- ISBN-101421413345
- ISBN-13978-1421413341
- PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
- Publication dateJuly 15, 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.85 x 9 inches
- Print length376 pages
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Despite assumptions in some quarters of widespread academic radicalism, professors are politically liberal but on the whole democratically tolerant and are focused more on the business of research and teaching than on trying to change the world.
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Solon Simmons is an associate professor in the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and author of The Eclipse of Equality: Arguing America on Meet the Press.
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- Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press (July 15, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 376 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1421413345
- ISBN-13 : 978-1421413341
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.85 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,300,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6,639 in Sociology (Books)
- #30,541 in Education (Books)
- #31,143 in Higher & Continuing Education
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Neil Gross, a sociologist best known for his research on higher education, politics, and academic life, is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College in Maine. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Gross holds a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from UC Berkeley and received his PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the Colby faculty in 2015, Gross taught at the University of Southern California, Harvard, the University of British Columbia, and Princeton.
After college, Gross served as a police officer in California, and chose the University of Wisconsin for graduate school in part because one of the leading scholars of police reform, Herman Goldstein, taught there at the time. Gross’s academic interests led him in other directions for more than two decades, but he never gave up the goal of doing research that might help improve American policing and advance the cause of justice. Walk the Walk is his first work of narrative non-fiction.

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