SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Credentialism And Educational Inflation
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Overemphasis on credentials, such as college degrees, for signaling social status and job qualifications. As more and more people meet the qualifications for certain types of jobs, employers upgrade the requirements in order to weed out more people. Logical response to the increasing complexity of jobs and the desire to do jobs better. Ex. ) a bsn helps a nurse learn communication and leadership skills useful in being a productive member of a complex healthcare team. Serves as a way for people higher in the social hierarchy to keep those lower in the social hierarchy from taking their jobs, sitting on their committees, buying houses by them, etc. Keeping the wealthy people in wealthy professions and the less wealthy people in less wealthy professions.
