Anti-intellectualism in American Media : Magazines & Higher Education
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Higher Ed
ISBN-10
0820457213
ISBN-13
9780820457215
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 18th, 2003
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
406 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Communication studiesSociology & anthropologyPhilosophy & theory of education
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This series asks about the purposes of Higher Education. When undergraduates «declare their majors,» they agree to enter into a world defined by the parameters of a particular academic discourse, a discipline. But who decides those parameters? How do they come about? What are the discussions and proposed outcomes of disciplined inquiry? The series welcomes proposals from interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, or transdisciplinary perspectives.
In this book, Dane S. Claussen argues that the news media have fed vocationalism and self-doubt in higher education, and anti-intellectualism throughout American culture. Analyzing articles in popular national magazines since the G.I. Bill of 1944, Claussen finds that media have overwhelmingly portrayed college as a time and place for students to play sports, date and marry, drink and take drugs, protest, join fraternities and sororities, go on vacations, avoid the draft, escape their parents, and, perhaps most of all, network and find jobs – in short, do almost anything except research, study, write, think, or debate. In the tradition of Richard Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-intellectualism in American Life and Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind, Claussen illustrates the counterintuitive and underestimated – nearly overlooked – role of the news media in higher education and anti-intellectualism.
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