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An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades

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"Written with verve, this short book does a good job of contextualizing area studies within a historical sociology of the vicissitudes of academic life."---Mary Taylor Huber, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
"[Seeing the World] offers a novel perspective to understand the historical and contemporary role of US research universities in shaping and reshaping American and global societies. . . . A must-read book for anyone working or studying within the US higher education system. It will help current students, scholars, and administrators better understand their role within the American university’s knowledge-producing system.—Lipon Mondal, International Journal of Comparative Sociology"

Seeing the World

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    A Hardback by Mitchell Stevens, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Seteney Shami

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/02/2018
      ISBN13: 9780691158693, 978-0691158693
      ISBN10: 069115869X
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      Book Synopsis
      An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades

      Trade Review
      "Written with verve, this short book does a good job of contextualizing area studies within a historical sociology of the vicissitudes of academic life."---Mary Taylor Huber, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
      "[Seeing the World] offers a novel perspective to understand the historical and contemporary role of US research universities in shaping and reshaping American and global societies. . . . A must-read book for anyone working or studying within the US higher education system. It will help current students, scholars, and administrators better understand their role within the American university’s knowledge-producing system.—Lipon Mondal, International Journal of Comparative Sociology"

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