Administrative Science Quarterly 1963
College Education and Moral Orientations: An Organizational Approach
Abstract
Although there is considerable empirical evidence that college-educated people have distinctive values and attitudes, existing research presents both positive and negative evidence that colleges serve as actual agents of moral socialization. To order these findings and generate research hypotheses, a typology of client-serving organizations is developed. This typology differentiates client-serving organizations which do and do not induct their clients into the organization. It further distinguishes among varieties of inducting organizations. By employing the typology it is possible to determine the extent to which these organizations can mobilize mechanisms of moral socialization and confront organizational problems lowering the effectiveness of these mechanisms. From this typological framework, a set of predictions about the differing moral impact of certain kinds of inducting organizations is derived, and their application to the study of colleges is discussed.' Charles E. Bidwell is assistant professor of education, University of Chicago and Rebecca S. Vreeland is assistant research sociologist, University Health Services, Harvard University.
- DOI
- 10.2307/2390898
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