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'''Academic elitism''' is the criticism that ] or academics are prone to ]. The term "]" often carries with it an implicit critique of academic elitism. |
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== Description == |
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Critics of academic elitism{{specify|date=August 2013}} argue that highly educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be over represented among ], ]s, and other members of the ] who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers. Economist Dan Klein shows that the worldwide top-35 economics departments pull 76 percent of their faculty from their own graduates. He argues that the academic culture is pyramidal, not ], and resembles a closed and genteel social circle. Meanwhile, he claims, academia draws on resources from taxpayers, foundations, endowments, and tuition payers, and it judges the social service delivered.{{clarify|date=August 2013}} The result is a self-organizing and self-validating circle.<ref> |
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{{cite journal | ref=harv |
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| last=Klein | first=Daniel B. |
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| year=2005 |
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| title=The Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics |
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| journal=Econ Journal Watch |
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| volume=2 | issue=1 |
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| pages=133–148 |
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| url=http://econjwatch.org/issues/volume-2-issue-1-april-2005 |
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==See also== |
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==References== |
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* {{cite book | ref=harv |
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| last= Adams | first=Mike S. |
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| year=2004 |
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| title=Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor |
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| publisher=Harbor House |
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| isbn=1-891799-17-7 |
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* {{cite journal | doi=10.2466/PR0.68.3.891-894 | ref=harv |
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| last=Bair | first=Jeffrey H. |
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| last2=Boor | first2=Myron |
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| year=1991 |
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| title=The Academic Elite in Law: Linkages Among Top-Ranked Law Schools |
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| journal=Psychological Reports |
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| volume=68 |
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| pages=891–94 | issue=3 |
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*{{cite book |
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|last= Klein |
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|first= E.R. |
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|year= 1996 |
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|title= Feminism under fire |
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|publisher= Prometheus Books |
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|isbn= 1-573920-11-8 |
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*{{cite book |
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| first = Kit Yuen |
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| title = The Girl Who Wouldn't Sing Ed. ] |
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| publisher = Aunt Lute Books |
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| edition = 1st |
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| date = 1990 |
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| location =Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color |
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| pages =212-220 |
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| ISBN=1-879960-10-9 |
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*{{cite book |
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| last = Christian |
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| first= Barbara |
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| title = The Race for Theory Ed. ] |
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| publisher = Aunt Lute Books |
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| edition = 1st |
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| date = 1990 |
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| location =Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color |
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| pages =335-345 |
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| ISBN=1-879960-10-9 |
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*{{cite book |
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|last= Jessica |
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|first= Yee |
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|date= 2011 |
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|title= Feminism for real: Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism |
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|url=https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2011/02/Feminism_for_Real_Introduction_Jessica_Yee.pdf |
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|location= Ottowa, ON |
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|publisher= Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
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*{{cite journal |
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| last = Million |
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| first = Dian |
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| title = Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History |
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| journal = Wicazo Sa Review |
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| volume = 24 |
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| issue = 2 |
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| pages = 53-76 |
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| publisher = University of Minnesota Press |
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| date = Fall 2012 |
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| url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/40587781 |
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| accessdate = 01/10/2014 |
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* {{cite journal | ref=harv |
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| last=Bair | first=Jeffrey H. |
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| year=2003 |
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| title=The Academic Elite in Law: Linkages Among Top-Ranked Law Schools |
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| journal=The American Journal of Economics and Sociology |
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| url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_2_62/ai_100202314 |
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* Keally, Charles T., "''''". Sophia International Review no. 28, 2006.{{Verify credibility|date=August 2013}} |
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* Lin, Xi, "''; Cynicism and disillusionment are protocol for UW elites''". The Daily of the University of Washington, 1998.{{dead link|date=August 2013}} |
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* Zhang, Steven, "''''". The Cornell Daily Sun, 2011. |
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* Newitz, Annalee (2000), "''''". Salon.com, 2000.{{dead link|date=August 2013}} |
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* ], "''No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities''". 1986. ISBN 0-19-503557-7 |
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==Further reading== |
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*Trow, Martin, "Problems in the Transition from Elite to Mass Education," Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, 1973 . |
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