| Titre | Les universitaires suédois : élite intellectuelle ou intellectuels de l'élite ? | |
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| Auteur | Alain Gras | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1970, 11-4 | |
| Page | 516-544 | |
| Résumé |
Alain Gras : Swedish professors: an intellectual elite or the elite's intellectuals ?
This is the analysis of the situation of the professors among the intellectual elite in Sweden. The interest of the Swedish case consists in the duration (almost 38 years) of the Socialist regime, and its efforts towards the realization of equality trough unchanged economic structures. The survey (1965-1967) included interviews which took place before and after the sending of questionnaires (83 % responses). Three thirds of the professors were born in families belonging to the bourgoisie (upper and upper-middle). Professors'votes show they share the same political opinions as the members of the upper class. But there exists another cleavage than the political one: the University seems equally divided between « humanists » and technicists ». If professors are politically passive and behave very differently from the « free-lance » intellectuals, it is because they are literally wedged by the power which pretends to be a socialist, labor power: without any theoretical resources, they have no choice except between tradition on the right and political conformism on the left. This situation profits the state bureaucracy and ties down the University to the needs of a mercantile economy. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1970_num_11_4_1711 |
