Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University

Author/Contributor(s):	Soares, Joseph A
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/30/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Best Book Award, 2000, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association This book studies Oxford University's transformation-and the political hazards for academics that ensued-when, after World War II, it changed from a private liberal-arts club with aristocratic pretensions into a state university heavily committed to the natural sciences, and with a middle-class consituency and a meritocratic ethos.