Credentialism
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Credentialism is a term used to describe perceived over-emphasis on credentials when hiring staff or assigning social status.[1] An employer may require a diploma, professional license or academic degree, say, for a job which can be done perfectly well applying skills acquired through experience or mere informal study. Since blue-collar types of work have relied more commonly upon the apprentice system for confirmation of skills, the phenomenon is considered more prevalent among employers of white-collar labor.[citation needed]
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- Randall Collins, The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification, Academic Press, 1979.
- Charles D. Hayes, Proving You're Qualified: Strategies for Competent People without College Degrees, Autodidactic Press, 1995.
- Charles Derber, William A. Schwartz, Yale Magrass, Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order, Oxford University Press, 1990.
- John McKnight, The Careless Society: community and its counterfeits, New York, BasicBooks, 1995.
- Meehl, P.E., Credentialed persons, credentialed knowledge. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 4, 91-98, 1997.
- Robert S. Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Chicago: Contemporary books, 1979.
- Ivan Illich, Irving K. Zola, John McKnight, Disabling Professions, 1977.
- Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971.
