ABSTRACT
The problem to which this chapter addresses itself generally is the nature of the linkages between universities and their host societies in England, France, the USA and the USSR. In particular it will concern itself with the analysis of one hypothesized factor in this linkage: nationally based theories of knowledge and models of man as constraining devices or as indices of constraints on universities. What happens, or might happen, if different national university systems are confronted with the demand that the education they provide should be more utilitarian; utilitarian in the sense that university education should contribute directly, intentionally and immediately to the pressing economic and social purposes of society? 1
