The Credential Society : : An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification / / Randall Collins.
The Credential Society by Randall Collins is a classic on higher education and its role in American society first published in 1979. Forty years later, it remains an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Its controversial claim that the expansion of American education has...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Legacy Editions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Legacy Edition
- Foreword
- Foreword: Educational Entrepreneurship in a Changing America
- 1. The Myth of Technocracy
- 2. Organizational Careers
- 3. The Political Economy of Culture
- 4. The United States in Historical Time
- 5. The Rise of the Credential System
- 6. The Politics of Professions
- 7. The Politics of a Sinecure Society
- References
- Index