Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life

by Howard S Becker and Howard S. Becker

Book Overview

Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point averages. The authors of Making the Grade maintain that, though it has taken different forms from tune to time, the emphasis on grades has persisted in academic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138527491
• ISBN13: 9781138527492
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"