The Academic Revolution Author:Christopher Jencks and David Riesman Describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in American universities and now in the larger society... the authors look at some of the revolution's consequences. They see it as intensifying conflict between young and old, provoking young people raised in permissive middle-class homes to ever-angrier attacks on the l... more »egitimacy of adult authority, and as subtly transforming the kinds of work to which talented young people aspire, contributing to the decline of entrepreneurialism and the rise of professionalism. And they conclude that mass higher education has had no measurable effect on the rate of social mobility or the degree of equality in American society.« less