SOC-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Espn Bottomline, Social Mobility
18 Feb 2016
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Armstrong and hamilton: organizational imperatives solvency, legitimacy, prestige. Increasing reliance on professional search firms with growing prevalence of non-faculty professional backgrounds. Pressure to focus on college rankings, recruitment of prominent faculty and financial bottom-line. Federal incentives: billion for research; million for post-secondary improvement grants (2009) Bayh-dole act of 1980: allowed universities to patent discoveries arising from federally supported research (over billion annually, although highly concentrated, facilitated massive expansion of corporate-university technological partnerships. Multifaceted higher education institutions (stevens, armstrong and arum) Incubator economic and social: sieves sorting. 2: temples sanctify knowledge, hubs connect diverse social institutions/realms. Conflicting and changing functions of us education system (labaree 1997)
