In an Age of Experts: The Changing Roles of Professionals in Politics and Public Life

Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence over cultural values and public affairs. The rise of this putative new class has been greeted with idealistic hope or ideological suspicion on both the right and the left. In an Age of Experts challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated, and that the political preferences of professionals are much more closely linked to those of business owners and executives than has been commonly assumed.

Author: Steven Brint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 06/02/1996
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.09w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780691026077

About the Author
Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coauthor, with Jerome Karabel, of the award-winning study The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985.