Politics and the Professors. The Great Society in Perspective.

Autor/in	Aaron, Henry J.
Titel	Politics and the Professors. The Great Society in Perspective.
Quelle	(1978), (185 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Attitudes; Books; Civil Rights; Educational Objectives; Federal Programs; Government School Relationship; Higher Education; Inflation (Economics); Political Issues; Poverty Programs; Professors; Public Policy; Racial Discrimination; Research; Social Change; Social Discrimination; Social Problems; Unemployment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politischer Faktor; Armenfürsorge; Öffentliche Ordnung; Racial bias; Rassismus; Forschung; Sozialer Wandel; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Arbeitslosigkeit
Abstract	By the early 1970's, political and scholarly tides had shifted away from the confidence and optimism of the 1960's. The initial broad consensus on the nation's problems and their solutions declined. An evolution is apparent in the attitudes and pronouncements by popular scholars on the role of federal government and its capacity to bring about beneficial change in three areas: poverty and discrimination, education and training, and unemployment and inflation. It can be argued that the political eclipse of the Great Society depended more on external events (the Vietnam war, dissolution of the civil rights coalition, and the Watergate scandal and its repercussions) than on its intrinsic failings. Both the initial commitment to use national policies to solve social and economic problems, and the subsequent disillusionment of scholars and laymen alike rest largely on preconceptions and faiths that have little to do with research findings or with the success or failure of the programs themselves. (Author/MSE)
Anmerkungen	Director of Publications, The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (cloth $10.95; paper $4.50)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC