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As John Poulakos has pointed out, because the sophistical practice of rhetoric emerged in association with developing democratic practices in Periclean Athens, it can be seen as a "partial empowerment of the traditionally weak and the partial disempowerment of the hitherto powerful," thereby creating the possibility of a "new world. Even as we continue to champion the value of a liberal education, we must ask ourselves whether an academy where the majority of undergraduate instruction is conducted by contingent faculty, and where arbitrary and shortsighted decisions are resulting in faculty disempowerment and limits to academic freedom, is an academy that can fulfill the promise of a quality liberal education for all students. Readers gain insight on how policies promote risky behaviours and disempowerment of groups of people through the creation of categories (like disabled, employable, or "at risk" youth), produce exclusion from social programs and systems, and construct social problems as private matters (for example, the poverty of single mothers as failed relationships). |
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