Abstract:With more individuals obtaining undergraduate and graduate degrees and the job market still recovering from the 2008 recession, the instances of college graduate underemployment (CGU) have increased throughout the United States. College graduate underemployment is an employment condition that is characterized by subjective and objective factors, most prominent of which is an incongruence between one’s education and one’s current job. The intriguing nature of CGU is how both employment and education merge toge… Show more
“…Both these credentialist and self-optimisation discourses are particularly salient in countries like Australia or the United States where qualifications are oftentimes assumed to be a sign of higher performance or productive capacity (Cunningham, 2016;Chesters & Wyn, 2019). Hence, employers both chase after and reward (with higher remuneration) those with higher-level qualifications at the expense of skills-based appraisals of candidates without or with lower qualifications (Chesters & Wyn, 2019).…”
Section: Over-educated Over-qualified and Underemployedmentioning
In this article, we examine the problem of youth underemployment and how it is conceptualised, operationalised and understood within wider sociology, with particular focus on the sociology of youth and youth studies literature.
“…Both these credentialist and self-optimisation discourses are particularly salient in countries like Australia or the United States where qualifications are oftentimes assumed to be a sign of higher performance or productive capacity (Cunningham, 2016;Chesters & Wyn, 2019). Hence, employers both chase after and reward (with higher remuneration) those with higher-level qualifications at the expense of skills-based appraisals of candidates without or with lower qualifications (Chesters & Wyn, 2019).…”
Section: Over-educated Over-qualified and Underemployedmentioning
In this article, we examine the problem of youth underemployment and how it is conceptualised, operationalised and understood within wider sociology, with particular focus on the sociology of youth and youth studies literature.
This chapter explores social class myths, the Social Class Worldview Model, and suggestions for student affairs professionals to facilitate social class identity development.
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