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'''Academic elitism''' is the criticism that academia or academicians are prone to ], or that certain experts or ] propose ideas based more on support from academic colleagues than on real world experience. The term "]" often carries with it an implicit critique of academic elitism.
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Some of economist ]'s writings ('']'') suggest that academicians and intellectuals have an undeserved "]" and face fewer ]s than other professions against speaking outside their expertise. Sowell cites ], ] and ] as paradigmatic examples of this phenomenon. Though respected for their contributions to various academic disciplines (respectively mathematics, linguistics, and literature), the three men became known to the general public only by making often-controversial and disputed pronouncements on politics and public policy that would not be regarded as noteworthy if offered by a medical doctor or skilled tradesman.<ref>Sowell, T. (2009). Intellectuals and Society. Basic Books, pp. 16-18</ref>

Critics of academic elitism argue that highly-educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be overrepresented amongst ], ]s, and other members of the ] who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers. Economist Dan Klein shows that the worldwide top-35 economics departments pull 76 percent of their faculty from their own graduates. He argues that the academic culture is pyramidal, not ], and resembles a closed and genteel social circle. Meanwhile, academia draws on resources from taxpayers, foundations, endowments, and tuition payers, and it judges the social service delivered. The result is a self-organizing and self-validating circle.<ref>
{{cite journal | ref=harv
| last=Klein | first=Daniel B.
| year=2005
| title=The Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics
| journal=Econ Journal Watch
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Another criticism is that universities tend more to ] than intellectualism per se; for example, to protect their positions and prestige, academicians may over-complicate problems and express them in obscure language (e.g., the ], a hoax by physicist ] attempting to show that American humanities professors invoke complicated, pseudoscientific jargon to support their political positions.) Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves as members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: "Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy."<ref>Paglia, Camille. (1992) ''Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays'', ISBN 978-0-679-74101-5, p. ix.</ref>

Academic elitism suggests that in highly competitive academic environments only those individuals who have engaged in ] are deemed to have anything worthwhile to say, or do. It suggests that individuals who have not engaged in such scholarship are ]. Steven Zhang of the ] has described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the ], of having a "smug sense of success" because they believe "gaining entrance into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself."

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* {{cite book | ref=harv
| last= Adams | first=Mike S.
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| title=Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor
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* {{cite journal | doi=10.2466/PR0.68.3.891-894 | ref=harv
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| title=The Academic Elite in Law: Linkages Among Top-Ranked Law Schools
| journal=Psychological Reports
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| pages=891–94 | issue=3
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* {{cite journal | ref=harv
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| title=The Academic Elite in Law: Linkages Among Top-Ranked Law Schools
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* Keally, Charles T., "''''". Sophia International Review no. 28, 2006.
* Lin, Xi, "''; Cynicism and disillusionment are protocol for UW elites''". The Daily of the University of Washington, 1998.
* Zhang, Steven, "''[http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2011/04/12/poison-ivy-league The Poison Ivy League''". The Cornell Daily Sun, 2011.
* Newitz, Annalee (2000), "''''". Salon.com, 2000.
* ], "''No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities''". 1986. ISBN 0-19-503557-7
* Sprain, Leah (2004), "''''", Student writing on public scholarship
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==Further reading==
*Trow, Martin, "Problems in the Transition from Elite to Mass Education," Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, 1973 .
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