Compromising Scholarship: Religious and Political Bias in American Higher Education - Hardcover

Yancey, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602582688 ISBN 13: 9781602582682

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1602582688
• ISBN 13: 9781602582682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278