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The university as a critical institution?
Whether universities can survive as critical organisations in the current time is an open question which this volume seeks to address. The book examines particular aspects of three main themes: governance, critical regulation and regulated criticism; growth, equality, movement and instability in higher education systems; and teaching and learning. Topics range from \"University Futures\" to an examination of governance by procedure and the loss of the social process of the university; a discussion of the meaning of academic freedom; and approaches to managerialism. Quality management is discussed, along with the question of whether European Liberal Education actually exists. Various aspects of the theme of teaching and learning are examined, from student participation in out-of-class activities, to the role of Centres of Excellence, and a consideration of widening participation. The book is international in its reach, and addresses the continuing dilemmas faced in higher education systems, within Europe and beyond.
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Practice and Progress
Originally published in 1981 Practice and Progress is a collection examining the changes that have occurred in the theories, methodologies and practices of sociology, in the institutional and educational setting of the subject, and in British society. The themes pursued include the professionalization of sociology its development and standing in the universities; the impact on it of Marxism and feminism and the major debates over positivism and empiricism, quantitative methods, linguistic analysis; and numerous other crucial methodological and theoretical concerns.
Introduction
Part I: Intellectual Debates and Institutional Contexts
1. Professionalism in British Sociology, J.A. Barnes
2. Sociology as a Parasite: Some Vices and Virtues, John Urry
3. Oxbridge Sociology: The Development of Centres of Excellence, Anthony Heath and Ricca Edmonson
4. The Collapse of British Sociology, Philip Abrams
Part II: Sociological Knowledge: Creation and Practice
5. The Social Construction of ‘Positivism’ and its Significance in British Sociology, 1950-80, Jennifer Platt
6. The Anti-Quantitative Bias in Post-war British Sociology, Christopher T. Husbands
7. Towards a Rehabilitation of Data, Maureen Cain and Janet Finch
8. W(h)ither Sociological Methodology?: Generalisation and Comparative Method, Peter Abell
9. Sociological Practice and Language, Michael Philipson
Part III: Marxism and Feminsim: Radical Interventions in Sociology
10. Sociologies and Marxisms: the Odd Couples, Leslie Sklair
11. The Division of Labour Revisited or Overcoming the Two Adams, Margaret Stacey
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Index
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