The Chosen : The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

作者：JeromeKarabel

出版社：MarinerBooks

副标题：TheHiddenHistoryofAdmissionandExclusionatHarvard,Yale,andPrinceton

出版年：2006-9-8

页数：711

定价：USD36.95

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780618773558

内容简介
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A landmark work of social and cultural history, The Chosen vividly reveals the changing dynamics of power and privilege in America over the past century. Full of colorful characters (including Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, James Bryant Conant, and Kingman Brewster), it shows how the ferocious battles over admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton shaped the American elite and bequeathed to us the peculiar system of college admissions that we have today. From the bitter anti-Semitism of the 1920s to the rise of the “meritocracy” at midcentury to the debate over affirmative action today, Jerome Karabel sheds surprising new light on the main events and social movements of the twentieth century. No one who reads this remarkable book will ever think about college admissions — or America — in the same way again.

作者简介
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杰罗姆•卡拉贝尔，生于1950年，美国社会学家，政治及社会评论家，加州大学伯克利分校社会学教授，其笔触以全面的视角，广泛涉及美国高等教育机构及社会政策和历史的方方面面。他致力于对教育的社会学研究，探求美国高等教育中关于精英、机遇、晋升途径与文化资本的内涵，以及教育系统在使现有社会秩序合法化中所扮演的角色。

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准备SAT时听别人推荐而傻乎乎跑去读完的，至今啃过的最艰难的英文书，读完很长一段时间我都被里面所说的申请大学时legacy的问题所影响……也许十年后想起来会再读一遍吧

学到好多美国高等教育的八卦；论证不够严谨，但对美国社会错位的meritocracy ideal和"false consciousness of equality of opportunity"的批判很对胃口。看完就想读更多early 20-century U.S. history

读着读着开始频频点头，一看，十五年都过去了，什么也没变。

读过的人竟然如此少。翔实的史料。

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