The University as a Regional Corporation.

This article addresses the failure to look at the issue of the higher educational institution in Russia as a corporation that has particular interests and orientations with respect to the surrounding social space: "Until recently, sociology in Russia did not pay due attention to the study of the organizational aspects of systems of education. The authors have pointed out the contradiction between the needs of society and the organizational structure of professional education. For the most part this is attributed not to the social organization of education but to the proportions in the structure of the contingent of students in particular areas of training. Analysis of crisis phenomena in the reproduction of the scientific and pedagogical potential of institutions of higher learning, for example, is generally confined to the social and economic context, and one gets the impression that the source of contradictions in the sphere of professional education relates only to the state level of administration...This shortcoming has gradually been surmounted, with the development of research on the structure of education as a social system and its functional organization."