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

• Main Author: Lybeck, Eric (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
• Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Subjects: Society & culture: general; Sociology; academisation; academisation process; academization; academization process; aristocracy; children; clergy; division; Eric Lybeck; Eric Royal Lybeck; education; elites; elite institutions; emergence; higher education; history; inequality; mass university sector; middle classes; new inequalities; role; social science; sociology; transformation; two-phases; universities; women
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Summary

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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (198 p.)

ISBN

9781351017558
9781351017541
9781138497900
9781032020327

Access

Open Access