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Muller, Johan; Young, Michael – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
Several authors have suggested that the contract between the university and society formulated in the nineteenth century is breaking down, and a new relation between knowledge and society is being installed. This paper investigates what is at stake in this shift by re-visiting the roots of disciplinary knowledge, examining Durkheim's social…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Level, Universities