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Cross-Class Encounters, Social Capital and Moral Judgments at an Elite College
“The sociology of education is a chapter, and not a minor one at that, in the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of power… [Given that] the structure of social space as observed in advanced societies is the product of … Continue reading
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Tagged class, ethnography, higher education, inequality, morality, social capital
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The Closing of the Mind
“What is advertised as a great opening is a great closing.” Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (1987), p. 34 “Landscape with Figures” by George Tooker (1992) *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community through Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Reddit / Tumblr
How to defeat Neoliberalism? Name and shame its carriers. Together we did it– and we succeeded!
Neoliberalism is a political project, sophisticatedly exploiting the fictitious “free markets” ideas professed by mainstream economists, aimed at reshaping the functions of the state and its institutions, in order to change the distribution of capital and wealth in a society. In the years … Continue reading
Posted in Name and Shame, Oleg Komlik
Tagged academia, higher education, neoliberalism, public sociology
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When public good exchanged to private gain: neoliberalism, higher education and social inequality
Public higher education has a long history, with its growth associated with mass higher education and the extension of a social right to education from secondary schooling to university education. Following the rise in student numbers since the 1970s, the … Continue reading
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Tagged education, higher education, inequality, knowledge, neoliberalism, policy, United Kingdom
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Name and shame: Warwick University to outsource academics to a subsidiary
While revolts against the neoliberalization and commercialization of higher education have been sweeping Dutch universities and London universities, the University of Warwick (whose motto is “Mind moves matter”) is giving in to the dangerous logic of “profit above all”. The university management will be changing the … Continue reading
Posted in Name and Shame, Oleg Komlik
Tagged academia, higher education, marketization, neoliberalism, United Kingdom
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Inspiring Victory of Grassroots Activism: Chile to Have Free Higher Education
Due to enduring civil, student-led protests, Chile to have free higher education. This is a huge victory to grassroots activism and social movements. The ‘Chilean Winter’ started in August 2011. A series of ongoing student-led protests across Chile have been sweeping throughout the … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Chile, civil society, education, higher education, neoliberalism, privatization, protest, social movements
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“Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education”: how modes of material and symbolic violence undermine public pedagogy and commitment to democracy
This important and accessible book is about how policies and modes of material and symbolic violence radically reshape the mission and practice of higher education and its institutions, short-changing a young generation suffering from – and coping with – precarity. … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, democracy, higher education, institutions, marketization, neoliberalism, precariat, public sociology
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Democratic pressure lead to abolition of university tuition fee in Germany. This neoliberal experiment contributed to increasing educational and income inequality
During the past eight years, university tuition fees were introduced into most German federal states as under Germany’s federal system, state governments run education policy. Yet during the last months, as a result of political processes and increasing public pressure … Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, higher education, inequality, neoliberalism, policy, politics
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Inequality is not just about money. Inequality is literally a killing field.
Inequality is a socio-cultural order which reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world— argues Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge) … Continue reading
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Tagged class, Finland, gender, higher education, inequality, United Kingdom, United States, welfare
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Economics Students of the World, Unite! Students from 19 countries call for change in the way the discipline is taught
The International Student Initiative for Pluralist Economics, which brings together 42 groups of economics students spread across four continents, is the first global protest against mainstream economic teaching. In the open letter they write: “It is not only the world economy … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, higher education, neoliberalism, Sociology of economics
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