David B Bills
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 225250 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David B Bills |
| NOMBRES | David B |
| APELLIDO | Bills |
| FIRMA | BILLS D B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9349-6989 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 217 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality
In countries around the world, population aging, technological change, and labor market transformations are leading to an increasing incidence of mismatch between the skills and credentials held by workers and those required by their jobs. This is leading large numbers of people to return to schooling to enhance their prospects in the workplace. Access to adult education is highly stratified, and the returns to educational re‐entry vary across so…
Trends in Educational and Skill Mismatch in the United States
We examined trends in the incidence and correlates of educational and skill mismatch in the United States. We focused on trends over time in the associations between various types of mismatch and a range of factors including contextual conditions. We explored whether contextual conditions at the transitional period from school to jobs increase or decrease the probability of mismatch and whether such relationships persist throughout the working ca…
Franchise
Franchising is a business arrangement in which a parent company contracts with one or more smaller firms to grant or sell to them the right to distribute its products, implement its processes, or use its trade name
Schooling and Economic Success
The empirical association between schooling and economic success is one of the most secure findings in the social sciences. Across societies and historical periods, with rare exceptions, those with more schooling or particular types of schooling have held significant material advantages over those with less schooling. While they are not perfect, the empirical associations between schooling and economic success are high, persistent, and, according…
Educational Attainment
Educational attainment refers to the highest level of formal education completed by the members of a population. Because national systems of education differ greatly from one another, the measurement of educational attainment is typically restricted to education completed in the country where the education was received, although researchers have developed various metrics to translate levels of completed schooling across countries. Educational att…
The Demand Side of Hiring
Sociological research on labor markets has focused most of its attention on the supply side of the labor market, that is, the characteristics of job seekers and job incumbents. Despite its pivotal and we believe primary role in labor market processes, the demand side, in particular the hiring decisions made by employers, has received less attention. The employment relationship, however, comprises both the demand and supply sides, as well as the m…
Congested credentials
Education, Adult
Adult education is an increasingly important component of the educational systems of many nations and comprises a growing share of the total volume of educational attainment. In this entry, various conceptualizations of adult education are discussed and its relationship to lifelong learning is explained. The increasing relevance of adult education for persistent patterns of social inequality is examined and some of the challenges and benefits in …
Living, Learning, and the New Higher Education
Affirmative Action
The concept of affirmative action encompasses a broad range of voluntary and mandated policies and procedures intended to provide equal access to educational and employment opportunities to members of historically excluded groups. Foremost among the bases for historical exclusion have been race, ethnicity, and sex, although consideration is sometimes extended to other groups (e.g., Vietnam veterans, the disabled). Both the concept of affirmative …
Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision is one of the most significant events in American history. The ruling struck down the principle of “separate but equal,” established in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision. In doing so, Brown established the terrain on which the next sixty years of school desegregation and eventually resegregation would take place.
Changes in educational expectations between 10th and 12th grades across cohorts
Learning environments and rapidly evolving handheld technologies
More and more K–12 school teachers are using handheld devices in classrooms. The mobile nature of handheld technologies is often seen as an integral characteristic facilitating collaborative learning and flexible learning arrangements. Since both portable devices and ideas about the learning environment are rapidly evolving, teachers need to be aware of technologies and classroom arrangements that can help improve student performance and classroo…
Altered States of the Collective Mind
Sociology of Education Reviewer Awards
Sociology of Education has been well served again this year by a community of engaged and conscientious reviewers. Peer reviewing is a critical part of the work we do as sociologists, and exemplary reviewing is too rarely acknowledged and honored. Again this year I want to recognize the work of the reviewers of this journal with the Sociology of Education ‘‘Revise and Resubmit’’ Award. The recipients of this award have consistently displayed the …
The Collective Mind
The spring 2009 issue of the newsletter of the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association featured a brief (about 4,000 words) essay by sociologist Steven Brint. In ‘‘The ‘Collective Mind’ at Work: A Decade in the Life of U.S. Sociology of Education,’’ Brint offered al ucid and empirically informed appraisal of American sociology of education as reflected in its primary journal, Sociology of Education .B rint’s essay …
Towards a Normal Stratification Order
An overture for the sociology of credentialing
New directions in educational credentialism
After Admission
(2009). After Admission: From College Access to College Success. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 117-119
Affirmative Action
The term affirmative action encompasses a broad range of voluntary and mandated policies and procedures intended to provide equal access to educational and employment opportunities for members of historically excluded groups. Foremost among the bases for historical exclusion have been race, ethnicity, and sex, although consideration is sometimes extended to other groups (e.g., Vietnam veterans, the disabled). Both the concept of affirmative actio…
Applying Workplace Models of Learning in Social Science Computer Labs
Sociologists have made great strides in integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into their teaching but have paid less attention to the physical and social settings in which ICTs are often embedded. An increasingly important setting in many social science departments is the computer lab. I present four workplace-based models of learning as a scheme to optimize the learning that can occur in labs. Each of these models is buil…
Wolfgang Lehmann, Choosing to Labour? School-Work Transitions and Social Class
olfgang Lehmann's Choosing to Labour?School-Work Transitions and Social Class examines the extent to which formally structured programs designed to link schools and workplaces can overcome the reproductive effects of social class and gender in the early career experiences of German and Canadian youth.The author offers a comparative study of academic-track high school students in Bremen, Germany and students participating in an apprenticeship prog…
Worker training
Franchise
Franchising is a business arrangement in which a parent company contracts with one or more smaller firms to grant or sell to them the right to distribute its products, implement its processes, or use its trade name. The recent development of franchising in the US and elsewhere is characterized by steady to rapid growth in the number of franchised establishments, their increased levels of employment and sales, and their proliferation beyond the re…
The Demand Side of Hiring
Sociological research on labor markets has focused most of its attention on the supply side of the labor market, that is, the characteristics of job seekers and job incumbents. Despite its pivotal and we believe primary role in labor market processes, the demand side, in particular the hiring decisions made by employers, has received less attention. The employment relationship, however, comprises both the demand and supply sides, as well as the m…
Congested credentials
The Mutability of Educational Credentials as Hiring Criteria
Although there is no single 'overeducation' thesis, most accounts hold that increasingly large numbers of employees have educational credentials beyond those needed for performance on their jobs. Rather than assuming a mismatch between skill levels and atypical credentials, this article asks how employers actually evaluate educational credentials that are higher than those usually associated with a given job. Employers do maintain educational cei…
Educational Credentials and Promotions
personality characteristics of the sort typically measured with paper-and-pencil tests; rather, thqy referred to the types of dispositions that would fit with the exigencies of the position and the organization, the characteristics of the candidate's co-workers, and often the personality of the supervisor for whom the candidate would be working. The managers regularly reported that they considered compatibility or chemistry when constructing a po…
New directions in educational credentialism
Employers' Use of Job History Data for Making Hiring Decisions
Most research on occupational assignment has concentrated on characteristics of job seekers that presumable signal positive labor market information to employers. Foremost among these have been educational credentials and years and type of work experience. In many cases, though, employers seek indicators that can provide them with negative information about a candidate's prospects for successful job performance; they frequently construct screens …
An overture for the sociology of credentialing
Family Configuration and Achievement
Michael R. Olneck, David B. Bills, Family Configuration and Achievement: Effects of Birth Order and Family Size in a Sample of Brothers, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 135-148
What Makes Sammy Run? An Empirical Assessment of the Bowles-Gintis Correspondence Theory
The Bowles-Gintis correspondence theory rejects conventional explanations that stress the role of cognitive skill in explaining the link between educational attainment and occupational status or earnings. According to Bowles and Gintis, schools do not serve primarily to enhance or to certify cognitive skills necessary for the technically efficient performance of occupational roles; instead, they serve primarily to develop noncognitive characteris…
Participation in Work-Related Education
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality
In countries around the world, population aging, technological change, and labor market transformations are leading to an increasing incidence of mismatch between the skills and credentials held by workers and those required by their jobs. This is leading large numbers of people to return to schooling to enhance their prospects in the workplace. Access to adult education is highly stratified, and the returns to educational re‐entry vary across so…
Changes in educational expectations between 10th and 12th grades across cohorts
Towards a Normal Stratification Order
Credentials and Capacities
The “new structuralism” in stratification research has made important contributions to our understanding of job assignment by directing attention to the demand side of labor markets. This article builds on this work by conceptualizing job matching in terms of labor market transactions (hirings and promotions). Detailed quantitative and case study evidence is presented to ask how employers perceive the link between schooling and the acquisition of…
Social Science Computer Labs as Sites for Teaching and Learning
David B. Bills, Anthony Q. Stanley, Social Science Computer Labs as Sites for Teaching and Learning: Challenges and Solutions in Their Design and Maintenance, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 153-162
Occupational Prestige Hierarchies
Trends in Educational and Skill Mismatch in the United States
We examined trends in the incidence and correlates of educational and skill mismatch in the United States. We focused on trends over time in the associations between various types of mismatch and a range of factors including contextual conditions. We explored whether contextual conditions at the transitional period from school to jobs increase or decrease the probability of mismatch and whether such relationships persist throughout the working ca…
Worker training
Acquiring Credentials When Signals Don't Matter
David B. Bills, Mary Ellen Wacker, Acquiring Credentials When Signals Don't Matter: Employers' Support of Employees Who Pursue Postsecondary Vocational Degrees, Sociology of Education, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 170-187
The Impact of Student Employment on Teachers' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Working Students
Part-time and full-time work is increasingly common among many American high school students. There is a substantial body of research on the relationship of youth work with individual academic and socioeconomic outcomes, but we know little about how schools and teachers themselves have responded to the shift among their students toward intensified work involvement. Our research analyzes teachers' views of working students and the impact of studen…
Educational Attainment
Educational attainment refers to the highest level of formal education completed by the members of a population. Because national systems of education differ greatly from one another, the measurement of educational attainment is typically restricted to education completed in the country where the education was received, although researchers have developed various metrics to translate levels of completed schooling across countries. Educational att…
Living, Learning, and the New Higher Education
After Admission
(2009). After Admission: From College Access to College Success. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 117-119
Family Configuration and Achievement
Michael R. Olneck, David B. Bills, Family Configuration and Achievement: Effects of Birth Order and Family Size in a Sample of Brothers, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 135-148
Occupational Prestige Hierarchies
What Makes Sammy Run? An Empirical Assessment of the Bowles-Gintis Correspondence Theory
The Bowles-Gintis correspondence theory rejects conventional explanations that stress the role of cognitive skill in explaining the link between educational attainment and occupational status or earnings. According to Bowles and Gintis, schools do not serve primarily to enhance or to certify cognitive skills necessary for the technically efficient performance of occupational roles; instead, they serve primarily to develop noncognitive characteris…
The Images of Occupational Prestige
Education, Work and Employment-I
Educational Credentials and Promotions
personality characteristics of the sort typically measured with paper-and-pencil tests; rather, thqy referred to the types of dispositions that would fit with the exigencies of the position and the organization, the characteristics of the candidate's co-workers, and often the personality of the supervisor for whom the candidate would be working. The managers regularly reported that they considered compatibility or chemistry when constructing a po…
Credentials and Capacities
The “new structuralism” in stratification research has made important contributions to our understanding of job assignment by directing attention to the demand side of labor markets. This article builds on this work by conceptualizing job matching in terms of labor market transactions (hirings and promotions). Detailed quantitative and case study evidence is presented to ask how employers perceive the link between schooling and the acquisition of…
The College Board and the School Curriculum
Employers' Use of Job History Data for Making Hiring Decisions
Most research on occupational assignment has concentrated on characteristics of job seekers that presumable signal positive labor market information to employers. Foremost among these have been educational credentials and years and type of work experience. In many cases, though, employers seek indicators that can provide them with negative information about a candidate's prospects for successful job performance; they frequently construct screens …
The Mutability of Educational Credentials as Hiring Criteria
Although there is no single 'overeducation' thesis, most accounts hold that increasingly large numbers of employees have educational credentials beyond those needed for performance on their jobs. Rather than assuming a mismatch between skill levels and atypical credentials, this article asks how employers actually evaluate educational credentials that are higher than those usually associated with a given job. Employers do maintain educational cei…
The Impact of Student Employment on Teachers' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Working Students
Part-time and full-time work is increasingly common among many American high school students. There is a substantial body of research on the relationship of youth work with individual academic and socioeconomic outcomes, but we know little about how schools and teachers themselves have responded to the shift among their students toward intensified work involvement. Our research analyzes teachers' views of working students and the impact of studen…
Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 5
The New Modern Times
Social Science Computer Labs as Sites for Teaching and Learning
David B. Bills, Anthony Q. Stanley, Social Science Computer Labs as Sites for Teaching and Learning: Challenges and Solutions in Their Design and Maintenance, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 153-162
Credentials, Signals, and Screens
The empirical relationship between educational attainment and credentials with socioeconomic attainment is well established, but why this relationship arises remains in doubt. The author of this article discusses seven types of middle-range theories meant to explain the relationship: human capital, screening (including filtering), signaling, control, cultural capital, institutional, and credentialist theories. In each, the central causal mechanis…
Acquiring Credentials When Signals Don't Matter
David B. Bills, Mary Ellen Wacker, Acquiring Credentials When Signals Don't Matter: Employers' Support of Employees Who Pursue Postsecondary Vocational Degrees, Sociology of Education, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 170-187
The shape of social inequality
Preface: Archibald Orben Haller, an Intellectual Portrait. (A. Portes). Introduction. (D.B. Bills). Concepts for Social Stratification. Are There Any Big Classes at All? (K.A. Weeden, D.B. Grusky). Spaces and Networks: Concepts for Social Stratification. (J. Woelfel, M. Murero). Some Demographic Aspects of Rurality. (G.V. Fuguitt). Applications in U.S. Society. Assimilation in American Society: Occupational Achievement and Earnings for Ethnic Min…
Participation in Work-Related Education
The new mobile scholar and the effective use of information and communication technology
Our goal in this article is to understand how scholars — who need to collect, organize, analyze, and present large amounts of information in a short period of time — can use mobile information and communication technology (ICT) to work more efficiently and effectively. We argue that wireless fidelity (wi–fi) and universal serial bus (USB) technologies have made it possible for social scientists to work more productively outside of their own offic…
Worker training
Franchise
Franchising is a business arrangement in which a parent company contracts with one or more smaller firms to grant or sell to them the right to distribute its products, implement its processes, or use its trade name. The recent development of franchising in the US and elsewhere is characterized by steady to rapid growth in the number of franchised establishments, their increased levels of employment and sales, and their proliferation beyond the re…
I>Brown V. Board of Education
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas stands as the most significant Supreme Court decision in the history of American education, as well as one of the most important statements on racial equality and the relationship between various levels of American government. A half century later, the impacts and implications of Brown are still emerging
Education, Adult
Perhaps because so much adult education takes place outside the boundaries of formal educational institutions, sociologists have devoted less scholarly attention to adult education than they have to most other kinds of schooling. There is little agreement on the boundaries of adult education and no clear consensus on a definition that specifies what is included and excluded. Even the terminology pertaining to adult education is inconsistent and s…
Applying Workplace Models of Learning in Social Science Computer Labs
Sociologists have made great strides in integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into their teaching but have paid less attention to the physical and social settings in which ICTs are often embedded. An increasingly important setting in many social science departments is the computer lab. I present four workplace-based models of learning as a scheme to optimize the learning that can occur in labs. Each of these models is buil…
Wolfgang Lehmann, Choosing to Labour? School-Work Transitions and Social Class
olfgang Lehmann's Choosing to Labour?School-Work Transitions and Social Class examines the extent to which formally structured programs designed to link schools and workplaces can overcome the reproductive effects of social class and gender in the early career experiences of German and Canadian youth.The author offers a comparative study of academic-track high school students in Bremen, Germany and students participating in an apprenticeship prog…
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