Limiting Privilege
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Author_Agata Zysiak
biographical interview
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classicism
communism
egalitarian socialism
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first-generation students
higher education under state socialism
hysteresis
intelligentsia reproduction
Lodz
Polish People's Republic
postwar Poland
professors biography
reform
social imaginary
social structure
socialist modernization
socialist privilege
socialist university
state socialism
upward mobility
working-class education
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- ISBN 9781612498829
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2023
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities—all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Łódź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.
Agata Zysiak, PhD, is a historical sociologist at Vienna University in Austria and the University of Łódź in Poland. She is the author of the award-winning book, Punkty za pochodzenie (Points for Social Origin); coauthor of the main publication about Łódź available in English, From Cotton and Smoke; and the author of Wielki przemysł, wielka cisza (Great Industry, Great Silence), which covers Lodz industry and its collapse.
