In this book the author directly confronts an ever more popular suspicion - that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is actually an 'elitist' indoctrination into 'leftist' or 'liberal' views.
Gavin Kitching is an internationally distinguished scholar and researcher in the fields of Third World development, agrarian and rural development, and the philosophy and methodology of social science. He is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Social Sciences Academy.