The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification (Legacy Editions) - Paperback

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.

• | Author: Randall Collins, Tressie McMillan Cottom
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: May 28, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0231192355
• | ISBN-13: 9780231192354