Collins The Credential Society

An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54978-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Legacy Editions

The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient.

Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Randall

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cottom, Tressie McMillan

Stevens, Mitchell L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Legacy Edition
Foreword by Tressie M. Cottom

Foreword by Mitchell L. Stevens

1 The Myth of Technocracy

The Technological Relevance of Education

2 Organizational Careers

The Importance of Technology in Organizations

Skill Demands and Organizational Processes

Gatekeepers and Cultural Controls

Status Linkages Between Education and Occupation

Cultural Credentials and Mobility Barriers

Conclusion

3 The Political Economy of Culture

Productive Labor and Political Labor

Sinecures and Positional Property

The Cultural Market

Conclusion

4 The United States in Historical Time

The Two Americas: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

5 The Rise of the Credential System

Multiethnic Conflict in America

American Educational Institutions: Early Background

The Rise of Public Education

Unified Secondary Education

Colleges and Universities

The Establishment of the Educational Sequence

6 The Politics of Professions

The Medical Monopoly

The Legal Guild

The Failure of the Engineers

Conclusion: Cultural Communities and Occupational Monopolies

7 The Politics of a Sinecure Society

The Early Twentieth-Century Income Revolution

The Late Twentieth-Century Credential Crisis

Varieties of Sinecure Politics

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Collins Randall :

Randall Collins is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is, most recently, the author of Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory (2008). Interaction Ritual Chains (2004), and The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998). He was president of the American Sociological Association from 2010 - 2011.Randall Collins is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998), Interaction Ritual Chains (2004), and Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory (2008). He is a former president of the American Sociological Association.