In an Age of Experts
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Accounting
Activism
Americans
Author_Steven Brint
Bureaucrat
Capitalism
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Charles Perrow
Consumer
Criticism
Daniel Bell
Economic development
Economic inequality
Economic problem
Economics
Economist
Economy
Elite
Employment
Engineering
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Government
Government spending
Human services
Ideology
Income
Institution
Intellectual
Intelligentsia
Lawyer
Legitimation
Liberal democracy
Liberalism
Management consulting
Middle class
New class
Nonprofit organization
Of Education
Policy
Political climate
Political culture
Political economy
Political party
Political science
Politician
Politics
Post-industrial society
Private sector
Profession
Professional association
Professional services
Professionalization
Public interest
Public policy
Regulation
Requirement
Salary
Service (economics)
Seymour Martin Lipset
Social class
Social issue
Social liberalism
Social science
Social stratification
Sociology
Tax
Technocracy
Technology
The Public Interest
Trade union
Welfare
Welfare state
Yale University
Product details
- ISBN 9780691026077
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence over cultural values and public affairs. The rise of this putative "new class" has been greeted with idealistic hope or ideological suspicion on both the right and the left. In an Age of Experts challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated, and that the political preferences of professionals are much more closely linked to those of business owners and executives than has been commonly assumed.
Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coauthor, with Jerome Karabel, of the award-winning study The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985.
