Networks of Trust - 9780226837192

The University of Chicago Press

Networks of TrustThe Social Costs of College and What We Can Do about Them\nAuthor(s): Anthony Simon Laden\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226837192, 978-0226837192\nSynopsis\nAn eye-opening look at how parents mistrust of colleges has less to do with what their kids are learning than with whom they come to trust. \n Higher education is a familiar battlefield in todays culture wars. The right accuses colleges and universities of indoctrinating conservative students with liberal values; the left, with failing to be sufficiently inclusive. The anxieties expressed on both sides of the political spectrum have much in common, however, and they are triggered not by colleges failures but by their successes.\n ?\n So argues philosopher Anthony Simon Laden in Networks of Trust. He highlights how a college education shapes students informational trust networks: the complex set of people and instit.