dequalification

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A change so as to require less skill and knowledge, often leading to less responsibility…

   A change so as to require less skill and knowledge, often leading to less responsibility and control.

   • Middle management is particularly threatened with dequalification (reduction in decision-making, supervision and control) .
   • According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.
   • However, here it may be noted that dequalification does often happen when new technologies replace older ones in one and the same field of activity.
2. 2

   The process by which someone is forced to work below the level of their skills and…

   The process by which someone is forced to work below the level of their skills and qualifications.

   • Dequalification is an imposed status, hitting women hardest in fields historically dominated by men, e.g., medicine and engineering.
   • They interpret the liberal code reform as an attempt to reduce dequalifications, especially of the young labor force, by avoiding incarceration ( Steinert 1978).
3. 3

   The change in status from qualifying (for something) to not qualifying.

   • Thus, it is impossible to create any objective standard as to what particular conditions would justify dequalification of the HMO.
   • One of the consequences of this division was the moralistic dequalification of neutrality by both superpowers.
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   1. 4

      The removal of distinctions

      The removal of distinctions; homogenization

      • This 'dequalification', which is equivalent to a loss of memory, is also a cultural process.
      • We may recall the opposition he drew between Temne conceptions of the landscape – a poetics of space – and Western surveying grounded in a massive 'dequalification' of this poetic character.

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