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854296
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Liu, Catherine.
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| Title & Author
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American idyll : : academic antielitism as cultural critique /\ Catherine Liu.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2011.
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1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)
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| ISBN
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1609380517
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: 9781609380519
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1609380509
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9781609380502
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: populist idylls, cultural politics -- The problem with the meritocracy -- Ordinary Americans, average students -- The curious cult of religious practicality -- Against all experts: no experience necessary -- The new age of cultural studies: crisis in the PMC -- Conclusion.
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℗¡A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy.
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Education, Higher-- United States.
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Elite (Social sciences)-- United States.
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Intellectuals-- United States.
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EDUCATION-- Higher.
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Education, Higher.
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Intellectuals.
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Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Social Classes.
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United States, Social conditions, 20th century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.5/52097309045
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| LC Classification
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HN90.E4L58 2011eb
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