This review discusses North American and European research from the sociology of
valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in …

Higher education lacks an intellectually coherent sociology; varied research on colleges and
universities is dispersed widely throughout the discipline. This review initiates a critical …

The advent of mass schooling played a pivotal role in European societies of the later
nineteenth century, transforming rural peasants into national citizens. The late-twentieth …

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education,
about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student …

Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not
only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the …

The second edition of Organizational Theory in Higher Education is a comprehensive and
accessible treatment of organizational theory and higher education administration. Noted …

This study examined job satisfaction and job stress across 19 higher education systems. We
classified the 19 countries according to their job satisfaction and job stress and applied …

Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly
is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as “peer …

This study provides a conceptual framework for understanding what employers think about
the value of graduates with similar educational credentials in the workplace (their …

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor of Crime, Law, and Society in the Department of Criminal
Justice, University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He holds additional faculty appointments in …