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.

• 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.

• Income

  • Salary alone only measures the income from a person's occupation, while total personal income accounts for investments, inheritance, real estate gains, and other sources of wealth.
  • On an individual basis, a person would need to have a high status, high paying occupation to belong to the upper middle class -- occupations that would likely be categorized within the group include those of physician or university professor.
  • The combination of two or more incomes allows for households to increase their income substantially without moving higher on the occupational ladder or attaining higher educational degrees.