Yoshie, check out _The Credential society : an historical sociology of education and stratification_ by Randall Collins (New York : Academic Press, 1979). However, your question is somewhat wrongly stated, since in all likelihood most jobs college graduates get *nominally* require a college degree. I would frame that question differently - as the question of de-skilling that affects both the workplace (cf. Braverman) as well as academic training. That is, on the one hand jobs require less and less high-level cognitive skills (i.e. making evaluations and judgments, applying them to a specific situation and then executing them) and more and more routine tasks. On the other jand, the academic training (especially at the undergrad level) moves away from developing high-level cognitive skills toward following well established routines (c.f. standardized multiple choice testing). So what we might find is that credentialism is in fact an epiphenomenon of a much deeper process of deskilling cum dumbing down of the very large segments of both the labor market and the academe. wojtek At 06:10 PM 9/30/99 -0400, you wrote: >Does anyone have data on the proportion of jobs in the USA that require >college education? Any good article on credentialism? > >What's the proportion of college graduates who get jobs that require >college education? > >Yoshie > >
