The contributions of various disciplines to the field of higher education and research studies are discussed in 10 seminar papers, which also review Burton R. Clark's work, "The Higher Education System: Academic Organization in Cross-National Perspective." Titles and authors are as follows: "Internal and External Regulatives in Research and Higher Educational Systems" (Aant Elzinga); "Research Organization and Research Policy in Sweden after the Second World War: A Discursive Essay" (Thorsten Nybom); "Disciplinary Discourse" (Tony Becher); "The Ethos of Higher Education Systems: A View from Anthropology" (Tomas Gerholm); "Integration and Higher Education" (Sven-Eric Liedman); "Higher Education and Research in an Educational Perspective" (Lennart F. Svensson); "Sociology and Organised Knowledge: Changing Perspectives in the Sociology of Science" (Katrin Fridjonsdottir); "The Higher Education System in a Time Perspective" (Rolf Ohlsson); "Are Some Disciplines More Relevant Than Others?" (Rune Premfors); and "Extending 'The Higher Education System'" (Burton R. Clark). (SW)