Legitimating Myths and Educational Organization: The Relationship between Organizational Ideology and Formal Structure.

Kamens, David H.

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ERIC Number: EJ161465

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Publication Date: 1977

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Legitimating Myths and Educational Organization: The Relationship between Organizational Ideology and Formal Structure

Kamens, David H.

American Sociological Review, 42, 2, 208-19, Apr 77

Argues that "schools symbolically redefine people." The social organization of schools is a major symbolic index of the kind of socialization that has occurred and thus legitimates the conferral of specific status rights. Organizational characteristics are thus causally linked to the social meanings attached to university attendance. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Certification, College Role, Educational Benefits, Higher Education, Social Class, Social Mobility, Social Structure, Socialization, Socioeconomic Status

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