Credential society

Japanese: credential society(英語表記)credentialsociety
Credential society

...a society in which educational background is important as a determining factor for people's professional status, and more generally, social status. This term began to be widely used in Japan from the beginning of the 1960s, and in the 1970s in Western countries, the equivalent term, credential society, began to be used by social scientists. It was only after the establishment of modern industrial society that educational background became important as a determining factor for social status, such as occupation.

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "credential society" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人々の職業的地位,さらには一般に社会的地位を決定づける要因として,学歴が重視される社会。この用語は,日本では1960年代に入るころから広く使われ始め,欧米諸国でも,70年代になるとこれに相当するクレデンシャル・ソサエティcredential society(資格証明の社会)という言葉が,社会科学者の間で使われるようになった。 職業に代表される社会的地位の規定要因として,学歴が重要性をもつようになったのは,近代産業社会の成立以降のことである。…

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