The Credential Society
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The Credential Society

An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification

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eBook - ePub

The Credential Society

An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification

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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.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231549783
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents 
  7. Preface to the Legacy Edition
  8. Foreword
  9. Foreword: Educational Entrepreneurship in a Changing America
  10. 1. The Myth of Technocracy
  11. 2. Organizational Careers
  12. 3. The Political Economy of Culture
  13. 4. The United States in Historical Time
  14. 5. The Rise of the Credential System
  15. 6. The Politics of Professions
  16. 7. The Politics of a Sinecure Society
  17. References
  18. Index