On the tensions of universities as a social institution – developing a comparative sociology of higher education

Bibliographic Data

ID21058324
AuthorsSarah Neal (0000-0003-1812-7221, University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume40
Issue13
Pages2285-2292
Publication date2017-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2017.1344269
OpenAlexW2738116022
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

This review of Natasha Warikoo’s timely and insightful intervention on the relationship between race, social mobility and elite university institutions argues that education has always presented a profoundly contested terrain for debates about race, racism and inclusion but that for too long those debates were confined to pre-eighteen education. The review argues that this study, with its revelatory, comparative U.S./U.K. lens, reveals the complex tensions, ambitions, achievements, identifications, anxieties, limits of diversity, and denials that shape the experiences and perspectives of those students who are part of the population of elite universities. It concludes that Warikoo’s work makes an original and important contribution to the emergent and much needed sociology of higher education

Critical race theory · Diversity (politics) · Elite · Higher education · Inclusion (mineral) · Institution · Political science · Race (biology) · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics