TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liu,Catherine
TI  - American idyll: academic antielitism as cultural critique 
SN  - 9781609380519
AV  - HN90.E4 L58 2011eb
U1  - 305.5/52097309045 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - United States
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Élite (Sciences sociales)
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Intellectuels
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Social Classes
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Higher
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: populist idylls, cultural politics -- The problem with the meritocracy -- Ordinary Americans, average students -- The curious cult of religious practicality -- Against all experts: no experience necessary -- The new age of cultural studies: crisis in the PMC -- Conclusion
N2  - ℗¡A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy
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