雇用システムの変化と学歴社会のゆくえ

抄録

In recent years, the employment system called Japanese feature shows fluctuation. The increase in change of occupation and unemployment and the increase of non-regular employment brought fluctuation to lifetime employment, and the merit system and performance-based system of the wage structure has replaced the seniority system. By a job shortage for new graduates and a serious consideration of mid-career recruitment, the system of simultaneous recruitment of new graduates is collapsing and young part-time jobbers and NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) are increasing.
Receiving the influence of change of the employment system, the formal academic career-oriented society in which the school career as a title is thought as important changed a lot. However, it does not mean the demolition of an academic careeroriented society itself. Special knowledge and technology are thought as important, and the functional academic career-oriented society where the academic career has a meaning as the index has appeared. Furthermore, the "true" academic career-oriented society theory that the owner of the advanced academic career which involves special knowledge and technology can receive suitable social treatment was produced by the increase in graduate school students.
However, an unequal social structure does not change and a desirable society will not be born, supposing the employment system continues changing in the form in a present progressive, even if the academic career-oriented society changes and a "true" academic career-oriented society is born. Rather, the inequality in the social structure may increase more. In order to construct a desirable society, it is necessary to reexamine the change of the employment system which is producing more unstable and more unequal society, and to reconsider the structure of the society itself.