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: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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

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.