{"product_id":"9780691202051-the-university-and-the-global-knowledge-society","title":"Meyer John W. - The University And The Global Knowledge Society - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: How the university went global and became the heart of the information age The university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today as more universities in more countries educate more students in more fields. At the same time the university has become central to a knowledge society based on the belief that everyone can through higher education access universal truths and apply them in the name of progress. This book traces the university's rise over the past hundred years to become the cultural linchpin of contemporary society revealing how the so - called ivory tower has become profoundly interlinked with almost every area of human endeavor. David John Frank and John Meyer describe how as the university expanded student and faculty bodies became larger more diverse and more empowered to turn knowledge into action. Their contributions to society underscored the public importance of scholarship and as the cultural authority of universities grew they increased the scope of their research and teaching interests. As a result the university has become the bedrock of today's information - based society an institution that is now implicated in the solution to every conceivable problem. But as Frank and Meyer also show the conditions that helped spur the university's recent ascendance are not immutable: eruptions of nationalism authoritarianism and illiberalism undercut the university's universalistic and rationalistic premises and may threaten the centrality of the university itself.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The University And The Global Knowledge Society\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Meyer John W.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780691202051\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 200 Pages, 9 B\/W Illus. 23 Tables.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Higher \u0026amp; Further Education, Tertiary Education","brand":"Meyer John W.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49596891529521,"sku":"IN-G-9780691202051","price":37.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780691202051.jpg?v=1754890632","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780691202051-the-university-and-the-global-knowledge-society","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}