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Rationality or Legitimacy: Motive Mechanism of Social Work Major Development: Study on Major Arrangement of Higher Learning Institutions in China

FU Shuangle, YANG Bowen, LIU Linping   

  1. School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210023, China
  • Received:2020-11-11 Online:2021-07-15 Published:2021-07-05

Abstract: Should a college or university take into account its own faculty structure or the need generated from social and economic development when setting up the social work major? Based on Organizational Sociology, taking rational choice and legitimate mechanism as two modes of competing logic and using Cox Proportional Hazard Model, it is found that in China it is not development of urban society and economy but the condition of the school, namely, whether a college or university has offered Social Work major, that has a significant impact on the decision to offer Social Work as an undergraduate major. The result indicates that currently the main driving mechanism for higher learning institutions in China to offer Social Work as an undergraduate major is rational choice instead of legitimate mechanism. Such result may lead to a mismatch between the major arrangement and talent training of higher learning institutions and the requirement of social development, which has an adverse effect on the development of Social Work major. It is suggested that both faculty structure and social and economic development be taken into account for the development of Social Work major in China.

Key words: rational choice, legitimate mechanism, social work

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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