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The Credential Society

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Credential Society

By Randall Collins

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About the book

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 not increased social mobility, but created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education's promises of upward mobility...Show more

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9780231192354

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2019

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