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Compromising Scholarship: Religious and Political Bias in American Higher Education
Author(s): George Yancey (Author)
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication Date: 30 Jan. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 278 pages
- ISBN-10: 1602582688
- ISBN-13: 9781602582682
Book Description
Conservative and liberal commentators alike have long argued that social bias exists in American higher education. Yet those arguments have largely lacked much supporting evidence. In this first systematic attempt to substantiate social bias in higher education, George Yancey embarks on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the social biases and attitudes of faculties in American universities–surveying professors in disciplines from political science to experimental biology and then examining the blogs of 42 sociology professors. In so doing, Yancey finds that politically–and, even more so, religiously–conservative academics are at a distinct disadvantage in our institutions of learning, threatening the free exchange of ideas to which our institutions aspire and leaving many scientific inquiries unexplored.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
The sociological evidence for the conservative disadvantage
About the Author
George Yancey is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. His books include What Motivates Cultural Progressives?: Understanding Opposition to the Political and Christian Right.
