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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Randall

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cottom, Tressie McMillan

Stevens, Mitchell L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• 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 Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

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.