Perspectives on Higher Education: Eight Disciplinary and Comparative ViewsThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984. |
Contents
The Historical Perspective by Harold Perkin | 17 |
The Political View by Maurice Kogan | 56 |
The Economic Approach by Gareth Williams | 79 |
The Organizational Conception by Burton R Clark | 106 |
The Analysis of Status by Martin A Trow | 132 |
The Cultural View by Tony Becher | 165 |
The Focus on Scientific Activity by Simon Schwartzman | 199 |
The Policy Perspective by Ladislav Cerych | 233 |
Conclusions by Burton R Clark | 256 |
Conference Participants | 275 |
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