SOC224H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Human Capital, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Barista
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Skeptical of human capital theory - questions hct. Underemployment/over-education - a bachelor"s degree graduate working as a barista. Unnecessary credentials - requiring credential not because nature of job has changed but just because the employer of market has changed the requirements (taking a course with no use) Professionalization efforts - groups that are trying to increase status as an occupation, they try to do so with credentials. Teachers back then, needed to start going to school and earn degree to come back and become a teacher. Collins point: to question the idea that increasing levels of education are. No - it is not required to get all these credential based on jobs but we are going to school on the basis of credentialism - earn credentials which professionalizes the occupation. May also be a result of a boom in the supply side" (example: post-war)
