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The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity

A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science

By: Robert King Merton,Elinor G. Barber

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The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity

A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science

By: Robert King Merton,Elinor G. Barber

The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who "manages serendipity" for the U.S. Navy."--Jacket.

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Princeton University Press

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0691117543

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9780691117546

Increasing Faculty Diversity

The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students

By: Stephen COLE,Elinor G. Barber,Stephen Cole

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Increasing Faculty Diversity

The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students

By: Stephen COLE,Elinor G. Barber,Stephen Cole

In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful, however, in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few become college professors. Working with a large sample of high-achieving minority students from a variety of institutions, the authors conclude that minority students are no less likely than white students to aspire to academic careers. But because minorities are less likely to go to college and less likely to earn high grades within college, few end up going to graduate school. The shortage of minority academics is not a result of the failure of educational institutions to hire them; but of the very small pool of minority Ph.D. candidates. In examining why some minorities decide to become academics, the authors conclude that same-race role models are no more effective than white role models and that affirmative action contributes to the problem by steering minority students to schools where they perform relatively poorly. They end with policy recommendations on how more minority students might be attracted to an academic career.

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385

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Harvard University Press

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0674029690

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9780674029699

The Bourgeoisie in 18th-Century France

By: Elinor Barber

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The Bourgeoisie in 18th-Century France

By: Elinor Barber

By delving into the religious, economic, social, and political attitudes and practices of the French bourgeoisie in the 18th century, Mrs. Barber dispels the idea that they were a revolutionary class bent on the destruction of the ancien régime. Instead, she reveals that only slowly and partially did they become antagonistic to the established society. Her particular attention is given to bourgeois feelings about, and chances for, social mobility. The book provides fresh insights into a familiar period, both in the wealth of information about the bourgeois class and in the use of sociological methods in a historical study. As an excellent example of a new and increasingly fruitful approach to history, it will interest both the historian and the social scientist. Originally published in 1955. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400874580

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The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity

The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity

Increasing Faculty Diversity

Increasing Faculty Diversity

The Bourgeoisie in 18th-Century France

The Bourgeoisie in 18th-Century France

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