occupation

Examples of occupation in the following topics:

• Occupation

  • In the United States, occupation and occupational prestige are primary indicators of social class, along with income, wealth, and education.
  • Sociologists often talk about the status associated with various occupations in terms of occupational prestige.
  • Occupational prestige refers to the esteem in which society holds a particular occupation.
  • Being a funeral director is not a high status job, however, because Americans do not tend to hold the occupation in high esteem it has low occupational prestige.
  • The social class associated with a particular occupation can change over time as the esteem in which the occupation is held changes.

• Prestige

  • Funeral directors have low occupational prestige, despite high incomes.
  • Funeral directors are examples of people who have low occupational prestige despite high incomes.
  • Occupations like physicians or lawyers tend to have more prestige associated with them than occupations like bartender or janitor.
  • On the one hand, choosing certain occupations or attending certain schools can influence a person's level of prestige.
  • The job of professor is an example of an occupation that has high prestige even though many professors do not earn incomes in the top economic bracket.

• The Working Class

  • The working class consists of individuals and households with low educational attainment, low status occupations, and below average incomes.
  • Their occupations may require vocational training but generally do not require a college degree, and they likely earn an income above minimum wage but below the national average.
  • Those in the working class are commonly employed in low-skilled occupations, including clerical and retail positions and blue collar or manual labor occupations.

• Management: the meta profession

  • Each commencement season we are told by the college reports the number of graduates who have selected the professions as their occupations and the number of those who will enter business.
  • An occupation for which the necessary preliminary training is intellectual in character, involving knowledge and to some extent learning, as distinguished from mere skill; which is pursued largely for others, and not merely for one's own self; and in which the financial return is not the accepted measure of success.
  • A profession is an occupation for which the necessary preliminary training is intellectual in character, involving knowledge and to some extent learning, as distinguished from mere skill.
  • It is an occupation which is pursued largely for others and not merely for one's self.
  • It is an occupation in which the amount of financial return is not the accepted measure of success.

• Career Development: Vocation and Identity

  • A vocation is an occupation to which an individual is particularly drawn.
  • A vocation is a term for an occupation to which a person is especially drawn or for which he or she is suited, trained, or qualified.
  • Define the meaning of the word "vocation" and how it impacts the choices people make as far as occupations are concerned

• Socioeconomic Status

  • There are a variety of ways to measure SES, including educational attainment, income, wealth, and occupational prestige.
  • Prestige used to be associated with one's family name, but for most people in developed countries, prestige is now generally tied to one's occupation.
  • Occupations like physicians or lawyers tend to have more prestige associated with them than occupations like bartender or janitor.
  • An individual's prestige is closely tied to their social class – the higher the prestige of an individual (through their occupation or maybe family name), the higher the social class.

• Women in the Labor Force

  • Economic dependency upon men has had the same impact, particularly as occupations have become professionalized over the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • Historically, women's lack of access to higher education had effectively excluded them from the practice of well-paid and high status occupations.
  • As gender roles have followed the formation of agricultural and then industrial societies, newly developed professions and fields of occupation have been frequently inflected by gender.
  • As women's access to higher education was often limited, this effectively restricted women's participation in these professionalizing occupations.
  • Women's access to occupations requiring capital outlays is also hindered by their unequal access to capital; this affects occupations such as entrepreneur and small business owner, farm ownership, and investor.

• Class Structure in the U.S.

  • American society is stratified into social classes based on wealth, income, educational attainment, occupation, and social networks.
  • Social classes are hierarchical groupings of individuals that are usually based on wealth, educational attainment, occupation, income, or membership in a subculture or social network.
  • This model has gained traction as a tool for thinking about social classes in America, but it does not fully account for variations in status based on non-economic factors, such as education and occupational prestige.
  • In the above outline of social class, status clearly depends not only on income, but also occupational prestige and educational attainment.
  • While social scientists offer competing models of class structure, most agree that society is stratified by occupation, income, and educational attainment.

• The Lower Class

  • Their occupations are largely unskilled and consist of repetitive tasks, and they achieve only a meager income.
  • Those who are employed in lower class occupations are often colloquially referred to as the working poor.
  • Two of the most common causes are low educational attainment and disabilities, the latter of which includes both physical and mental ailments that preclude educational or occupational success.

• Social Class

  • Society is stratified into social classes on the basis of wealth, income, educational attainment, and occupation.
  • Social classes are groupings of individuals in a hierarchy, usually based on wealth, educational attainment, occupation, income, and membership in a subculture or social network.
  • While social scientists offer competing models of class structure, most agree that society is stratified by occupation, income, and educational attainment.