TY - JOUR AU - Charchuła, Jarosław PY - 2020/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY — DIFFICULTIES AND OPPORTUNITIES JF - The Modern Higher Education Review JA - edreview VL - IS - 5 SE - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION DO - 10.28925/2518-7635.2020.5.5 UR - https://edreview.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/edreview/article/view/88 SP - 50-61 AB - <p>It is&nbsp;evident that, especially in&nbsp;the&nbsp;recent decades, the&nbsp;scientific institutions have strongly evolved and&nbsp;modified their structures in&nbsp;order to&nbsp;be&nbsp;adapted to&nbsp;the&nbsp;changing socio-cultural environment as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;to be&nbsp;more aware of&nbsp;the&nbsp;need to&nbsp;generate new knowledge in&nbsp;order to&nbsp;support the&nbsp;economic growth. Social sciences tried to&nbsp;interpret the&nbsp;process of&nbsp;institutionalization of&nbsp;science in&nbsp;the&nbsp;academic world in&nbsp;various ways, analyzing the&nbsp;social components of&nbsp;the&nbsp;process of&nbsp;creating the&nbsp;knowledge.<br>The&nbsp;approach in&nbsp;social sciences is&nbsp;primarily characterized by&nbsp;the&nbsp;study of&nbsp;the&nbsp;level of&nbsp;institutionalization that enables the&nbsp;study of&nbsp;the&nbsp;features that, in&nbsp;turn, define science as&nbsp;a&nbsp;social institution. This approach is&nbsp;useful in&nbsp;the&nbsp;study of&nbsp;higher education systems because the&nbsp;institutionalized principles make the&nbsp;structure of&nbsp;an organization and&nbsp;primarily provide the&nbsp;information about what regulates the&nbsp;formation of&nbsp;a university and&nbsp;not only about what regulates the&nbsp;behavior of&nbsp;an individual.<br>The&nbsp;organization of&nbsp;the&nbsp;university is&nbsp;a clear example to&nbsp;understand the&nbsp;changes that are taking place in&nbsp;social institutions based on&nbsp;scientific and&nbsp;technological knowledge.<br>In&nbsp;fact, in&nbsp;recent decades, universities have changed the&nbsp;way they organize their activities. The&nbsp;new requirements favor the&nbsp;reorganization of&nbsp;the&nbsp;knowledge creation process which has significant consequences for&nbsp;changes in&nbsp;the&nbsp;internal structure of&nbsp;a science institution.</p><p>This article focuses on&nbsp;the&nbsp;analysis of&nbsp;the&nbsp;process of&nbsp;institutionalization of&nbsp;science. This approach to&nbsp;science is&nbsp;primarily characterized by&nbsp;the&nbsp;analysis of&nbsp;the&nbsp;features that define science as&nbsp;a&nbsp;social institution. In&nbsp;this context, the&nbsp;most important challenges and&nbsp;difficulties related to&nbsp;these processes in&nbsp;a globalized world are presented.</p> ER -