Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Credential SocietyCondition: NewSubtitle: An Historical Sociology of Education and StratificationISBN-10: 0231192347EAN: 9780231192347ISBN: 9780231192347Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/28/2019Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Randall CollinsContributor: Tressie McMillan Cottom (Foreword by), Mitchell L. Stevens (Foreword by)Genre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Children's Learning & EducationBook Series: Legacy EditionsRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Credential Society
Title: The Credential Society
Subtitle: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
ISBN-10: 0231192347
EAN: 9780231192347
ISBN: 9780231192347
Release Date: 05/28/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Mitchell L. Stevens (Foreword by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Children's Learning & Education
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Credential Society : an Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Higher, History, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.5 Oz
Author: Randall Collins
Subject Area: Social Science, Education
Item Length: 8.8 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: Legacy Editions Ser.
Format: Hardcover
