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Institutional Culture and Civic Responsibility: An Ethnographic Study
- Journal of College Student Development
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, January/February 2006
- pp. 52-68
- 10.1353/csd.2006.0014
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Student citizenship development is an important goal of higher education that is rarely considered through a cultural lens. This ethnographic study of a research university is an examination of campus ideologies and cultural forms that address five dimensions of civic responsibility. The findings illustrate how the beliefs and cultural equipment specific to a campus can result in a unique institutional approach to the development of student civic responsibility.