The American University (Repost)
The American University
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr | 1973 | ISBN: 0674029208 | English | PDF | 474 pages | 25.79 Mb
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr | 1973 | ISBN: 0674029208 | English | PDF | 474 pages | 25.79 Mb
This book about the function of the university in modern society proposes that, as a product of the educational revolution, the university has affected society in much the same manner as did institutions of the industrial and democratic revolutions. The academic social system ". . . is a type of social system having a special relation to culture, special in that its primary societal function is to act as a trustee of cognitive culture and the interests associated with it. It is part of the fiduciary subsystem of a society
The American University (Repost)
