Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era
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Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era
By (Author) Mitchell Stevens
By (author) Cynthia Miller-Idriss
By (author) Seteney Shami
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
16th April 2018
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sociology
378.73
Physical Properties
Hardback
184
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
Description
An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades
Reviews
"Written with verve, this short book does a good job of contextualizing area studies within a historical sociology of the vicissitudes of academic life."---Mary Taylor Huber, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
Author Bio
Mitchell L. Stevens is associate professor of education at Stanford University. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is associate professor of education and sociology at American University. Seteney Shami is a program director at the Social Science Research Council and founding director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.
