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ERIC Number: EJ396800
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Higher Education and High Anxiety: Objectivism, Relativism, and Irony.
Bloland, Harland G.
Journal of Higher Education, v60 n5 p519-43 Sep-Oct 1989
The growth in legitimacy of relativist perspectives in broad areas of scholarship in the social sciences and humanities is discussed in terms of its importance for the study of colleges and universities. Types of irony as conveyors of relativist sensibility are applied to classic sociological concepts significant for higher education. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Educational Research, Epistemology, Higher Education, Humanities, Irony, Social Sciences, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Objectivism; Ontology; Positivism; Relativism