• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The American University
  • Contributor: Platt, Gerald M. [Author]; Parsons, Talcott [Author]; Smelser, Neil J. [Other]; Toby, Jackson [Other]
  • imprint: s.l.: Harvard University Press, 1973
    1973
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (XI, 463 S.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674423626
  • ISBN: 9780674423626
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  • Keywords: Enseignement supérieur ; Bildungswesen ; Education, Higher ; Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen ; Universities and colleges United States ; EDUCATION / General
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  • Description: Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE COGNITIVE COMPLEX: KNOWLEDGE, RATIONALITY, LEARNING, COMPETENCE, INTELLIGENCE -- 3. THE CORE SECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY: GRADUATE TRAINING AND RESEARCH -- 4. GENERAL EDUCATION AND STUDENTRY SOCIALIZATION: THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE -- 5. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE APPLIED PROFESSIONS: THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS -- 6. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE "INTELLECTUALS" -- 7. DYNAMIC PROCESS IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM: THE NATURE OF THE CRISIS -- 8. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: SOME PROBABLE TRENDS -- 9. EPILOGUE: SOCIAL-STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- TECHNICAL APPENDIX: SOME GENERAL THEORETICAL PARADIGMS -- INDEX