学歴,階層,職業

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Japanese sociologists of education have been very eager to study the problems concerning "credentialism", "diploma disease", and an "educational credential society". The Journal of Educational Sociology, however, had never taken up this topic as the title of a special issue before 1983. The most likely explanation is that large commercial publishers proposed to publish the results of sociological research in the form of popular books. There had been no need to publish papers on educational credentials in this academic journal. As a result, Japanese "credentialism" research has had its own bias. This paper attempts to describe and explain the characteristics of sociological analysis on educational credentials in Japan. Most previous studies have focused mainly on analyzing the effect of educational credentials on the status attainment process. They have employed the index of "educational credentials" as if credentials are independent attributes, rather than being within a relational network with many attributes. They have regarded "credentialism" as an inevitable social phenomena stemming from bureaucratization. The point is that previous studies have failed to consider educational credentials from multi-dimensional viewpoints and have supported the inevitable hypothesis of an "educational credential society".
日本教育社会学会の論文
1992-08-07