Gatekeeper

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A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a

bouncer, or more abstractly, controls who is granted access to a category or status. Gatekeepers assess who is "in or out", in the classic words of management scholar Kurt Lewin.[1]

Various figures in the religions and mythologies of the world serve as gatekeepers of

mass medium
.

Gatekeeping roles

Gatekeepers serve in various roles including

athletic ability. Where this internal gatekeeping role is unwanted, open admissions
can externalize it.

Various gatekeeping organizations administer professional certifications to protect clients from fraud and unqualified advice, for example for financial advisers.

A news

break-up
(unless the paper was of the gossip variety).

Other people gatekeeping roles are in mental health service, clergy, police, hairdressers, and bartenders because of their extensive contact with the public.[4]

Gatekeeper is also a term used in business to identify the person who is responsible for controlling passwords and access rights or permissions for software that the company uses.

One critique of gatekeeping roles is the potential to create or reinforce inequality, for example if entry is made more difficult for minority applicants or artists. For example, Bernardine Evaristo was only the first black woman to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize in fiction in 2019, a joint award with author Margaret Atwood.[5]

A

domestic servant with the job of guarding the main entrance to the estate.[6]

Academic peer review

Peer review is a practice widely used by specialized journals that publish articles reporting new research, new discoveries, or new analyses in a specific academic field or area of focus. Journal editors ask one or more subject matter experts deemed to be "peers" of an article's author or authors to assess an article's suitability for publication in the journal. Notwithstanding the fact that the intent of peer review is to ensure suitability and editorial quality, issues of preference or exclusion of articles are raised from time to time relating to the intellectual prejudices, career rivalries, or other biases of the journal editors or peer reviewers.[7]

Credentials

Credentialing is the practice of evidencing suitability for engaging in a profession or for employability through documentation of demonstrated competency or experience, completion of education or training, or other criteria as specified by a credentialing authority. The documentation provided by the authority is known as "

Credentialism refers to the practice of relying on credentials to prove the suitability of a professional person or a skilled employee to be assigned the responsibilities of professional engagement or employment.[8]

Employers may use such gatekeeping methods to ensure competence for the job or to accede to the pressures of organizations that award credentials to require specific credentials.[9][10]

See also

References

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  5. ^ "First black woman to receive Booker Prize describes joint win as 'bittersweet'". Metro. 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
  6. ^ Victorian Domestic Servant Hierarchy
  7. ^ "For Science's Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap". The New York Times. 2 May 2006.
  8. ^ Effective Operations and Controls for the Small Privately Held Business, Rob Reider
  9. ^ "Times & Seasons » Credentialism is Cruelty". Archived from the original on 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  10. ^ "A Closed Profession?—Recruitment to Social Work". Bjsw.oxfordjournals.org. 2014-07-05. Archived from the original on 2009-03-23. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
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