The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification

Author/Contributor(s):	Collins, Randall
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	05/28/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.