The credential society : an historical sociology of education and stratification / Randall Collins ; new preface forewords by Tressie McMillan Cottom and Mitchell L. Stevens.
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TextSeries: Legacy editions (Columbia University. Press)Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 303 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780231549783
- 0231549784
- Educational sociology -- History
- Educational anthropology
- Sociologie de l'éducation -- Histoire
- Anthropologie et éducation
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes
- Educational anthropology
- Educational sociology
- 306.43 23
- LC189 .C55 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
The Credential Society by Randall Collins is a classic on higher education and its role in American society. Forty years later, its controversial claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient
The myth of technocracy -- Organizational careers -- The political economy of culture -- The united states in historical time -- The rise of the credential system -- The politics of professions -- The politics of a sinecure society -- References -- Index
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