The Social Distance in Student-Lecturer Relation

This study aims to look at the form and ethics of relations as what happened and expected by lecturers and students. The context of this study is students majoring in psychology. The most important reason is because psychology closely related to human and the practical profession is dominantly characterized by direct interaction with fellow human. Lecturers are indeed just one object of student interaction on campus, in addition to friends and other academics on campus. The ethics of lecturer-student relations in general are still assumed as teacher-student relations where students are in a subordinate position. This study used interviews, FGDs, and questionnaires in extracting data. The result show that the experience of student and lecturer relations occurs more complex which ultimately results in several patterns of relations at once. The researcher uses Fiske's theory which identifies the basic forms of social behavior, namely communal sharing, market pricing, equality matching, and authority ranking. The four forms of relations are experienced simultaneously by students and lecturers.