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The sociology of education and work / David B. Bills.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bills, David B., 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Social aspects--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Work--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Work--Social aspects--United States.
- Work.
- Educational sociology--United States.
- Educational sociology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1 Education and Work: Establishing Some Terrain 1
- The Ambiguous Relationships Between Education and Work
- Education and Work: What Are We Talking About?
- The Contested Nature of Sociological Concepts
- Education, Work, and What Else?
- Education and Work in the United States and Elsewhere
- Education and Not-work
- 2 Schooling and Socioeconomic Success: Establishing Their Relationship 14
- Schooling and Socioeconomic Attainment
- Does the Myth of Schooling and Socioeconomic Success Hold?
- How Do We Explain the Grip of the "School for Success" Model Among Americans: Schooling as Panacea
- Some Dissenting Views
- 3 Two Models of the Relationships Between Education and Work 37
- Meritocrats and Credentialists
- The Meritocracy
- Credentialism
- 4 Is the United States a Meritocratic or a Credentialist Society? 61
- The Status Attainment Model as an Organizing Framework
- Some General Findings on Status Attainment: What Are the Overall Trends and Patterns?
- How Do Employers Think About and Act Upon Education and Other Credentials?
- 5 Education and Work in the Postindustrial Society 83
- The Structure of Contemporary Society
- Daniel Bell's Formulation of the Postindustrial Society
- More Specific Features of Postindustrialism and How They Shape the Relationships Between Education and Work
- Education and Work in the Postindustrial Society
- 6 Demographic Booms and Busts, Aging, and the New Cultural Diversity 112
- A Demographic Perspective on Education and Work
- Some Demographic Preliminaries
- The Baby Boom, The Baby Bust, and So On
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in Fertility
- The Movement of People: Immigration and Internal Migration
- The Changing Life Course
- Putting the Demographic Changes Togeher: The Racialized, Disorderly, and Forevermore Aging of America
- What Does All of This Add Up To?
- 7 The Transformation of the High School, the Coming of Mass Higher Education, and the Youth Labor Market 141
- Changing Linkages Between Education and Work
- The Shifting Role of High School as Preparation for Work: Schooling and Socialization
- How Schooling Prepares Students for the World of Work
- Departures from the Ideal Type of Socialization for Work
- The Formal Curriculum
- Vocational Education
- The Hidden Curriculum and School Socialization
- Interim Summary and an Unresolved Issue
- The Advent of the Youth Labor Market
- The Transition from High School to Work in the United States
- Conclusion: Young People, Schooling, and Jobs
- 8 The Possibilities of a Learning Society 179
- Lifelong Learning and Adult Education in the United States
- The Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Job Training
- Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, and Other Adult Learning Settings
- Other Forms of Postsecondary Education
- Learning by Long Distance: The Possibilities of Information Technology for Bridging School and Work
- Certifying the New Modes of Training
- 9 The Future of Education and Work 200
- Can the Linkage between Education and Work Tighten Forever?
- Conclusion: Education and Work in the "New Modern Times".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-257) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0631223622 :
- 0631223630
- OCLC:
- 56445561
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