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Postmodernism and the Sociological Study of the University
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 22, Number 3, Spring 1999
- pp. 315-330
- 10.1353/rhe.1999.0008
- Article
- Additional Information
Given the provocative views that postmodernists advance about universities, those engaged in sociological work on universities must critically engage this scholarship. This essay concludes that, although postmodernists offer some highly insightful views, the inherent limitations of postmodernism prohibit the kind of analysis necessary to comprehend what ought to be pivotal to any sociology of universities--the relationships between academic institutions and the issues of power, privilege, and equity.