Steven Brint
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182667
- eISBN:
- 9780691184890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182667.003.0003
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
This chapter discusses the analytical contrast between the two systems for organizing research and education, the system of academic professionalism and the system of academic innovationism. Under ...
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This chapter discusses the analytical contrast between the two systems for organizing research and education, the system of academic professionalism and the system of academic innovationism. Under the impetus of academic innovationism, universities became more porous to the outside world and reciprocal relations of knowledge exchange grew denser. On balance, the new system contributed significantly and positively to the research prowess of universities. But it has also yielded a spotty record—some extraordinary successes but also many short-lived, troubled collaborations. Some universities invested heavily in the infrastructure to foster academic innovation and had little to show for their investments. For research universities, the challenge for the future will be to expand the possibilities to contribute more to the national innovation effort.Less
This chapter discusses the analytical contrast between the two systems for organizing research and education, the system of academic professionalism and the system of academic innovationism. Under the impetus of academic innovationism, universities became more porous to the outside world and reciprocal relations of knowledge exchange grew denser. On balance, the new system contributed significantly and positively to the research prowess of universities. But it has also yielded a spotty record—some extraordinary successes but also many short-lived, troubled collaborations. Some universities invested heavily in the infrastructure to foster academic innovation and had little to show for their investments. For research universities, the challenge for the future will be to expand the possibilities to contribute more to the national innovation effort.
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853235835
- eISBN:
- 9781846312632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235835.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Enlightenment philosophy is associated with a number of themes, including a secularised deism or atheism, the notion that history will never return to its starting point, and an expanded awareness of ...
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Enlightenment philosophy is associated with a number of themes, including a secularised deism or atheism, the notion that history will never return to its starting point, and an expanded awareness of the value of foreign cultures. This chapter explores how these attitudes were modified when they reached the man in the street, focusing on Johan Hjerpe and Jacques-Louis Ménétra. It compares the two men with respect to three central themes of Enlightenment – religion, the outside world, and progress – and shows that both Hjerpe and Ménétra were bound by culturally transmitted ways of thinking, transformed during the eighteenth century by Enlightenment influences.Less
Enlightenment philosophy is associated with a number of themes, including a secularised deism or atheism, the notion that history will never return to its starting point, and an expanded awareness of the value of foreign cultures. This chapter explores how these attitudes were modified when they reached the man in the street, focusing on Johan Hjerpe and Jacques-Louis Ménétra. It compares the two men with respect to three central themes of Enlightenment – religion, the outside world, and progress – and shows that both Hjerpe and Ménétra were bound by culturally transmitted ways of thinking, transformed during the eighteenth century by Enlightenment influences.
Jean-Luc Domenach
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231152259
- eISBN:
- 9780231526456
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231152259.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines China's changing relationship with the outside world. From the beginning of the Sino-American dialogue in 1971–1972, the leaders in Beijing have become convinced that ...
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This chapter examines China's changing relationship with the outside world. From the beginning of the Sino-American dialogue in 1971–1972, the leaders in Beijing have become convinced that differences in political regimes did not always bring about hostility; that international trade can be a way of reducing divergences between countries; that participation in the process of globalization does not necessarily condemn China to marginalization; and that approval of Asian regionalization does not necessarily contradict the emergence of Chinese power. However, because they have not analyzed their successes, the Chinese authorities have been unable to detect the mistakes in their approach to the external world. China's view of the world suffers from two spectacular biases. The first is a fanatical fondness for hierarchy, for classification, with western countries seen as the best and developing countries as the worst. The second bias is the overestimation of the Western world, with the United States a simultaneous object of admiration and jealousy.Less
This chapter examines China's changing relationship with the outside world. From the beginning of the Sino-American dialogue in 1971–1972, the leaders in Beijing have become convinced that differences in political regimes did not always bring about hostility; that international trade can be a way of reducing divergences between countries; that participation in the process of globalization does not necessarily condemn China to marginalization; and that approval of Asian regionalization does not necessarily contradict the emergence of Chinese power. However, because they have not analyzed their successes, the Chinese authorities have been unable to detect the mistakes in their approach to the external world. China's view of the world suffers from two spectacular biases. The first is a fanatical fondness for hierarchy, for classification, with western countries seen as the best and developing countries as the worst. The second bias is the overestimation of the Western world, with the United States a simultaneous object of admiration and jealousy.
James H. Merrell
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834039
- eISBN:
- 9781469600772
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9780807834039.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter describes how the outside world saw the Catawba Nation in the late eighteenth century as a wasteland, but how the denizens of these depths could hardly have been worse off. On the eve of ...
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This chapter describes how the outside world saw the Catawba Nation in the late eighteenth century as a wasteland, but how the denizens of these depths could hardly have been worse off. On the eve of the Revolution they were already said to “live perhaps the meanest of any Indians belonging to the British American empire,” and fifty years later they remained “in a state of abject poverty.” Visitors were appalled. A traveler named John Smyth stayed overnight in 1772 and found his hosts “enveloped in filth and nastiness of person.” Though he liked the Indians and judged them happy enough, he had to confess that “their habitual nastiness, coarse fare, and rude accommodations” were “disgustful to me.”Less
This chapter describes how the outside world saw the Catawba Nation in the late eighteenth century as a wasteland, but how the denizens of these depths could hardly have been worse off. On the eve of the Revolution they were already said to “live perhaps the meanest of any Indians belonging to the British American empire,” and fifty years later they remained “in a state of abject poverty.” Visitors were appalled. A traveler named John Smyth stayed overnight in 1772 and found his hosts “enveloped in filth and nastiness of person.” Though he liked the Indians and judged them happy enough, he had to confess that “their habitual nastiness, coarse fare, and rude accommodations” were “disgustful to me.”
Shafqat Hussain
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300205558
- eISBN:
- 9780300213355
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300205558.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. The author examines the surprisingly diverse ways that the people of Hunza, a remote independent ...
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This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. The author examines the surprisingly diverse ways that the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. The author also explores how the Hunza people perceived British colonialists, Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as they engaged with the outside world.Less
This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. The author examines the surprisingly diverse ways that the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. The author also explores how the Hunza people perceived British colonialists, Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as they engaged with the outside world.
