Congested credentials: The material and positional economies of schooling

被引：39

作者：

Bills, David B. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

来源：

RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY | 2016年 / 43卷

关键词：

Education; Social stratification; Schooling; Credentialism; Queueing theory; EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS; ATTAINMENT; DIFFERENTIALS; INEQUALITY; TRENDS; LEVEL;

D O I：

10.1016/j.rssm.2016.03.002

中图分类号：

C91 [社会学];

学科分类号：

030301 ; 1204 ;

摘要：

Sociologists have grown increasingly aware that the role of education in systems of stratification is more positional than absolute. The value of one's level of attainment is less a simple function of the amount of schooling one has attained, and more a function of how much schooling one has relative to others in the educational queue. The idea of education as a positional good has far-reaching implications for research on such topics as job matching, educational expansion, and educational credentialism. I assess recent sociological treatments of educational positionality, and offer some directions for future research. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：65 / 70

页数：6

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