Higher Education And Corporate Realities: Class, Culture And The Decline Of Graduate Careers

by Brown,Phillip

• ISBN13: 9781857281040
• ISBN10: 1857281047
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A new approach to the analysis of cultural reproduction focusing on the impact of economic change. The book demonstrates the reinforcement of cultural stereotypes in recruitment caused by interaction between corporate restructuring and the education system.; This book is intended for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in sociology with an interest in the sociology of work and the sociology of education as well as researchers and students within human resource management and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Organizational change and managerial careers	p. 1
Education, recruitment and changing patterns of cultural reproduction	p. 15
Higher education and the regulation of talent	p. 32
Social divisions of learning	p. 55
Student orientations to work and careers	p. 86
The adaptive paradigm and employer recruitment strategies	p. 116
Graduates in employment: coming to terms with changing corporate realities	p. 146
Mass higher education and the collapse of bureaucratic work?	p. 164
References	p. 181
Index	p. 191
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