Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine

Awards:   Winner of American Sociological Association - Organizations, Occupations and Work Section: Max Weber Award 2013 Winner of American Sociological Association - Organizations, Occupations and Work Section: Max Weber Award 2013. Winner of Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association 2013 Winner of President's Book Award, Social Science History Association 2011 (United States) Winner of Social Science History Association President's Book Award 2011 Winner of Social Science History Association President's Book Award 2011. Winner of Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award 2013
Author:   Elizabeth Popp Berman
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691147086


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 January 2012
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of American Sociological Association - Organizations, Occupations and Work Section: Max Weber Award 2013
  • Winner of American Sociological Association - Organizations, Occupations and Work Section: Max Weber Award 2013.
  • Winner of Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association 2013
  • Winner of President's Book Award, Social Science History Association 2011 (United States)
  • Winner of Social Science History Association President's Book Award 2011
  • Winner of Social Science History Association President's Book Award 2011.
  • Winner of Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award 2013

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Author:   Elizabeth Popp Berman
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780691147086


ISBN 10:   0691147086
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 January 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2011 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association Creating the Market University succeeds in providing detailed, on-the-ground descriptions of the diverse decisions and events that worked together to create what amounts to a new social compact with academic science... [T]his is a valuable work that offers significant insights into how science in the academy arrived at where it is today. --John Rudolph, Journal of American History


Winner of the 2013 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2011 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association Creating the Market University succeeds in providing detailed, on-the-ground descriptions of the diverse decisions and events that worked together to create what amounts to a new social compact with academic science... [T]his is a valuable work that offers significant insights into how science in the academy arrived at where it is today. --John Rudolph, Journal of American History This volume provides the most thorough and balanced account of the advent of commercialization in academic science and its underlying causes. --Roger L. Geige, American Historical Review


Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2011 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association Creating the Market University succeeds in providing detailed, on-the-ground descriptions of the diverse decisions and events that worked together to create what amounts to a new social compact with academic science... [T]his is a valuable work that offers significant insights into how science in the academy arrived at where it is today. --John Rudolph, Journal of American History This volume provides the most thorough and balanced account of the advent of commercialization in academic science and its underlying causes. --Roger L. Geige, American Historical Review


Creating the Market University succeeds in providing detailed, on-the-ground descriptions of the diverse decisions and events that worked together to create what amounts to a new social compact with academic science... [T]his is a valuable work that offers significant insights into how science in the academy arrived at where it is today. -- John Rudolph Journal of American History


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Elizabeth Popp Berman is assistant professor of sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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