British Universities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5017479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A H Halsey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-101 |
| Publication date | 1962-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975600000539 |
| OpenAlex | W4243828645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
The university is a social institution which, like any other institution, has aims or functions for its members, for other social groups and for society as a whole; it has also a structure of roles, denned, sanctioned and provided with facilities for their performance. The normative conception of the institution-in this case the 'idea of a university'-may or may not faithfully reproduce an objective description of statistical norms of behaviour. Under conditions of institutional change the two norms do not coincide. In this essay I will consider the British university from these two points of view (i. e. the 'idea' of a university and the 'facts') in an attempt to understand the discrepancy (i. e. the processes of change which lie behind the differences between wish and reality
Epistemology · Institution · Normative · Political science · Social institution · Social science · Sociology · Total institution · Wish · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Political Science Research and Education · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1969 - 1969 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |