credentialism
(noun)
The common practice of relying on earned credentials when hiring staff or assigning social status.
Examples of credentialism in the following topics:
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The Credentialized Society
- Credentialism refers to the common practice of relying on earned credentials when hiring staff or assigning social status.
- Credentialism refers to the common practice of relying on earned credentials when hiring staff or assigning social status.
- Employers also commonly use credentials.
- Over time, credentials may lose value, especially as more and more people earn that credential.
- This process is referred to as credential inflation.
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Introduction to deviance
- Other examples include white hip-hop acts like Eminem and Nu-Metal bands like Limp Bizkit that mimic lower or middle class people in order to use their socioeconomic credentials for profit, despite their true socioeconomic status.
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Teachers: Employees and Instructors
- In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional qualifications or credentials from a university or college.
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Child Care
- Often the nationally recognized Child Development Associate credential is the minimum standard for the individual leading this home care program.
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Bachelor's Degree Occupations
- This would give you the credentials that hiring departments in the business world are looking for while simultaneously allowing you to focus on Sociology.
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The Church-Sect Typology
- employ professional, full-time clergy who possess the appropriate credentials of education and formal ordination