著者

山本 準 岡島 典子 Jun YAMAMOTO Noriko OKAJIMA

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 = Research bulletin of Naruto University of Education (ISSN:18807194)

巻号頁・発行日

no.36, pp.157-176, 2021-03-10

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The main subject of this article is to consider about the vocational qualification in field of sociology. There were fewer analyses about the vocational qualification than an educational qualification until now. The vocational qualification is not only related to the personal social status formation but affecting the industrial structure itself. In reference to precedent studies, for instance R.Collins and P.Bourdieu, I considered vocational qualification by using data and theory, from new two viewpoints. Two viewpoints are "vocational qualification for occupational cohort" and "vocational qualification for nation". As a result, the occupational cohort fights for acquisition of own occupational prestige in society, and because the nation gives national qualifications to workers, it promotes stability of the industrial structure. At the same time, there is the vocational qualification system in the possibility to contribute to immobilization and reproduction of the hierarchy. In late years, by a change of the labor circumstances, the meaning of the vocational qualification is changing, too. The vocational qualification raises one's social status by getting it. But, it is changing into a thing acquiring it as skill proof for continuing with one's work.