Compromising Scholarship

Religious and Political Bias in American Higher Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-30
Mått152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor278
FörlagBaylor University Press
ISBN9781602584778

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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