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Degrees of Control: A Sociology of Educational Expansion and by D. K. Brown

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By D. K. Brown

An exam of the speedy enlargement of upper schooling within the US within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, besides the improvement of credentialism in occupational recruitment.

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Higher Civil Service 156 Conclusion: The Abstraction of Graduates' Status Honor 159 7. Conclusion: Conceptualizing Twentieth-Century Trajectories 163 The Multivalent Culture of Credentialism 164 Tiered Educational Competition and Rationalization 167 States, Welfare Politics, and Credentialism 170 Notes 175 Bibliography 191 Index 213 About the Author 220 Page ix Foreword In this book, David Brown tackles an important question that has long puzzled scholars who wanted to understand the central role that education plays in American society: When compared with other Western countries, why did the United States experience such extraordinary growth in higher education?

S. labor markets, which encouraged credentialing relations between colleges and particular types of employers. Two broad areas of occupational change facilitated this alliance: professional and bureaucratic labor markets. One major change was the emergence and growth of middle-class, formally trained professionals in traditional practices such as law and medicine, together with enhanced educational certification in newer professions. The legitimacy of aristocratic, college-trained expertise in law, medicine, and other professions had waned during the Jacksonian period; the public was generally unconvinced that lengthy formal training was needed in these areas.

Any errors of fact, omission, logic, and so forth are fully my responsibility.  . The constitution of American universities and much else about them is affected by the fact that the American universities, to an even greater degree than the German, are institutions which compete with each other. The fact that in the city of Chicago there are two universities and, in the state of Illinois, a third, namely the state university, shows how things stand; what is more this competition is in principle completely free.

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