Compromising Scholarship

Religious and Political Bias in American Higher Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Conservative and liberal commentators alike have long argued that social bias exists in American higher education. Yet those arguments have largely lacked much supporting evidence. In this first systematic attempt to substantiate social bias in higher education, George Yancey embarks on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the social biases and attitudes of faculties in American universities - surveying professors in disciplines from political science to experimental biology and then examining the blogs of 42 sociology professors. In so doing, Yancey finds that politically - and, even more so, religiously - conservative academics are at a distinct disadvantage in our institutions of learning, threatening the free exchange of ideas to which our institutions aspire and leaving many scientific inquiries unexplored.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-30
Mått:152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:413 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Baylor University Press
ISBN:9781602584778

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George Yancey is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. His books include What Motivates Cultural Progressives?: Understanding Opposition to the Political and Christian Right.

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Yancey issues a clarion call to those of us in higher education that we must do a better job practicing the political tolerance that we so vigorously preach. -- Marie A Eisenstein, author of "Religion & the Politics of Tolerance: How Christianity Builds Democracy"

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 Historical and Social Bias within Academia3 With Whom Do Sociologists Want to Work?4 Qualitative Explorations of Biases among Sociologists5 Tolerance and Bias in Other Academic Disciplines6 Social Bias and the Nature of Scientific Inquiry7 What Can Be Done to Deal with Social Bias in AcademiaAppendixSupplemental MaterialNotesBibliographyIndex