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The Credential Society An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification - ebooks1001 - 09-13-2024 Free Download Randall Collins, "The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification " English | ISBN: 0231192347 | 2019 | 328 pages | AZW3 | 510 KB 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, Read more Recommend Download Link Hight Speed | Please Say Thanks Keep Topic Live Links are Interchangeable - Single Extraction |