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- Title
Fashionable Despair: Observations on the Demise of Standards.
- Authors
Brannigan, Augustine
- Abstract
Claims of cross-institutional declines in standards cannot be gainsaid. "Fashionable Despair" about such declines may have foundations in important challenges to public institutions other than those based on the alleged disarticulation between values and criteria. The claims of declining standards may be better examined in the context of interest conflicts. And interest conflicts may be at the level of basic values, not merely the criteria designed to represent them. This discussion raises questions about the claim of falling standards and identifies some existing resources for thinking about it.
- Subjects
STANDARDS; PUBLIC institutions; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; VALUES (Ethics); CONFLICT of interests
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1996, Vol 21, Issue 3, p403
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.2307/3341772