Gaye tuchman biography
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Gaye Tuchman
Rationalization of Higher Education
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, May 15, 2015
Since roughly 1980, the rationalization of higher education has been escalating. That fryst vatten, means-e... more Since roughly 1980, the rationalization of higher education has been escalating. That is, means-end schema and bureaucratic organization have become ever more dominant as the authority over academic matters has been shifting from the professoriate to managers who in the mid-twentieth century had been mainly responsible for economic affairs and "making things run." At many research universities today, the administrative sector has grown so large that the ekonomisk plan devoted to administrative salaries and benefits exceeds the monies reserved for faculty. The överföring of authority from educators to bureaucratic offices and roles has been driven by a larger marknad morality where the legitimacy of organizational functions resides in their reproduction of pr
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Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Gaye Tuchman has also taught at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Tuchman's main areas of interest are the sociologies of culture (including media), gender, and higher education. She is a firm believer in Simmel's dictum that almost anything can be transformed into an interesting sociological problem. To prove that point, after discussing Chinese food at a local pizzaria, she and Harry Levine wrote the classic article "Why New York Jews Love Chinese Food and Eat So Much of It." However, Tuchman is better known for her research on news. Although she thinks of herself as an ethnographer, Tuchman has also published work on historical methods. Her current interests include the art of the Southwestern pueblos. Tuchman was one of the founders of Sociologists for Women in Society and served as president of the Eastern Socoloogical Society. She has served on the boards of the American Sociologi
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Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Gaye Tuchman has also taught at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Tuchman's main areas of interest are the sociologies of culture (including media), gender, and higher education. She is a firm believer in Simmel's dictum that almost anything can be transformed into an interesting sociological problem. To prove that point, after discussing Chinese food at a local pizzaria, she and Harry Levine wrote the classic article "Why New York Jews Love Chinese Food and Eat So Much of It." However, Tuchman is better known for her research on news. Although she thinks of herself as an ethnographer, Tuchman has also published work on historical methods. Her current interests include the art of the Southwestern pueblos. Tuchman was one of the founders of Sociologists for Women in Society and served as president of the Eastern Socoloogical Society. She has served on the boards of th