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

by Steven Brint

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691026076
• ISBN13: 9780691026077
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"