Higher Education And Corporate Realities: Class, Culture And The Decline Of Graduate Careers / Edition 1

by Phillip Brown, Richard Scase

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857281033
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/1994
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phillip Brown, Richard Scase

Table of Contents

Organizational change and managerial careers; education, recruitment and changing patterns of cultural reproduction; higher education and the regulation of talent; Social divisions of learning; student orientations to work and careers; the adaptive paradigm and employer recruitment strategies; graduates in employment - coming to terms with changing corporate realities; mass higher education and the collapse of bureaucratic work?