Steven G. Brint (born 1951) is an American sociologist specializing in the study of organizations and education.
[2] His academic focus is the comparative study of schooling systems around the world and the transformations of higher education, professionalism, and class politics in the United States.
He recasts the theory of class inversion in the United States, for analysis of the historical transition from “social-trustee” to “expert” professionalism, and for its exploration of managerial, as opposed to consumer, state, and business interests in the transformation of U.S. higher education institutions[3] He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and books, with over 13,000 citations.
[8] As an undergraduate, he worked at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, where he remains an associated faculty member today.
[10] Also, while at Harvard, Brint worked with Jerome Karabel at the Huron Institute studying higher education.