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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21058324
AutoresSarah Neal (0000-0003-1812-7221, University of Sheffield, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume40
Fascículo13
Páginas2285-2292
Data de publicação2017-10-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2017.1344269
OpenAlexW2738116022
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas6

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