| Titre | Enseignement supérieur court et pièges de l'action collective | |
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| Auteur | Raymond Boudon, Philippe Cibois, Janina Lagneau | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1975, 16-2 | |
| Page | 159-188 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Raymond Boudon, Philippe Cibois, Janina Lagneau : Shorter Higher Education and the Traps of Collective Action.
When considering the development of enrollment in higher education in France, we observe that the attempt to shorten studies by introducing new institutions, the University Institutes of Technology (IUT), has not been crowned with success. In effect, the number of IUT students represents only a small percentage of those in higher education. This failure can be explained neither by the poor quality of instruction, since it is up to standards, nor by the smallness of incomes earned in later professional life, since these are close, on the average, to those of a large number of students who attend higher education for a much longer time. A possible explanation is that we are facing a phenomenon of collective action with paradoxical effects. Using a very simple model, we can show that the interest of each student, if he calculates his chances for profit, is to choose the long rather than the short cycle of studies. The cause of the IUT's failure, if we take into account some options in the name of which they were created, is to be sought not in culturalist hypotheses, such as a dislike for professional education, but in the result of a game of collective action in which many lose but all hope to win. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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