The Credential Society¶
Collins, R. (1979). The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. Academic Press.
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Primes¶
- Gresham's Law
- In education and credentialing, uniform certification across institutions of differing rigor drives the price-floor of all credentials downward.
This sourceDocuments credential inflation — uniform credentialing across institutions of differing rigor driving down the value of all credentials.
- In education and credentialing, uniform certification across institutions of differing rigor drives the price-floor of all credentials downward.
Mechanisms¶
- Credential or Certificate
- Its central failure mode is inflation and mills: when tokens become easy to buy or the standard quietly erodes, the badge stops separating types while everyone still pays to hold it.
This sourceIt marks the boundary where a credential stops signaling and becomes a toll.
- Its central failure mode is inflation and mills: when tokens become easy to buy or the standard quietly erodes, the badge stops separating types while everyone still pays to hold it.
- Credentialing and Peer Review Process
- Its failure modes cluster around the badge drifting loose from the ability. Credentialism is treating the certificate as the thing itself, so it stands in for competence
This sourceExplains credentialism as reliance on formal credentials as proxies for occupational competence.
- Its failure modes cluster around the badge drifting loose from the ability. Credentialism is treating the certificate as the thing itself, so it stands in for competence
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