occupational organizations

Examples of occupational organizations in the following topics:

• The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions

  • Variation three, $O \rightarrow X+Y$ , refers to the act of organizing things in a certain way.
  • By organizing in particular ways, we create important parts of the circumstances within which future actions of all types take place.
  • The act of organizing is thus a super wholesale approach to decision and action.
  • Organizations can be seen as collections of offices or roles, and roles in turn can be seen as sets of rules regarding proper and improper actions by the occupants of these roles.
  • The American Constitutional Convention of 1787 was one of history's most dramatic examples of acting to organize.

• Differences in Status

  • Employment and occupation are primary factors in social status, and one's role in an organization is especially relevant within the boundaries of that organization.
  • In the military and other organizations, the status of members affects communication.
  • Discuss the potential communication barriers created by differences in status, rank or organizational hierarchy within an organization

• Socioeconomic Factors

  • Depending on socioeconomic factors like wealth, education, or occupation, people are more or less likely to vote.
  • Socioeconomic status (SES) is determined by an individual's level of education, income, and occupation.
  • Education also prepares people to deal with the bureaucratic aspects of participation, such as registering to vote or organizing petition drives.
  • People's occupations also are related to their participation and their likelihood to vote.

• Women in the Workplace

  • Historically, the division of labor has been organized along gender lines.
  • The glass ceiling and occupational sexism reflect the restrictions on women as they try to enter and rise in the ranks of the workforce .
  • A number of occupations became "professionalized" through the 19th and 20th centuries, gaining regulatory bodies and requiring particular higher educational requirements.
  • As women's access to higher education was often limited, this effectively restricted women's participation in these professionalizing occupations.
  • Even where access to higher education is formally available, women's access to the full range of occupational choices can be limited.

• Occupational Health and Safety

  • The goal of occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe and healthy work environment.
  • Development of work organizations and cultures that support health and safety at the workplace
  • Department of Health and Human Services, is focused on research, information, education, and training in occupational safety and health.
  • Apply the concepts of occupational health and safety (OSH) to the legal structure within human resource management

• 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.

• Voting Patterns and Inequality

  • U.S. counties with sex segregated occupations are 11% more likely to vote Republican than counties that have mixed-sex occupations.
  • McVeigh and Sobolewski (2007) argue that the white males in sex segregated counties are more likely to vote for conservative candidates because they feel their occupational security is threatened by women and racial minorities.
  • Older people are also more organized, through organizations like the AARP and are more likely to vote as a block on issues that affect them directly.
  • Wealthier and more educated people are more likely to vote, and voting times and locations in the United States generally favor middle-class and above occupational and educational schedules (see figures to the right).

• 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.

• PhD Degree Occupations

  • ., marketing, non-governmental organizations, etc.), but it also means you will be much better qualified for these types of jobs.
  • All of this additional training will prepare a PhD in Sociology for advanced careers in fields as diverse as corporate marketing and statistical forecasting to community organizing and lobbying.
  • Another obvious occupation one can pursue is as an academic sociologist, working at a college or university.
  • According to Forbes Magazine, Sociology is one of the top-ten highest-paying rare jobs in the United States and is generally rated as one of the most satisfying occupations.

• Economic Systems

  • An economic system consists of a matrix of social institutions (law, political institutions, religion, etc), agents (individuals or actors), organizations (corporations, unions, charitable org, not-for-profit firms, etc) and society.
  • In market economies tradition is important to such decisions regarding values, expectations about behavior (trust, loyalty, etc.), fashion, preferences about housing, choices about occupations and geographic preferences.