vocation

Examples of vocation in the following topics:

• Career Development: Vocation and Identity

  • A vocation is an occupation to which an individual is particularly drawn.
  • Any profession, such as a doctor, lawyer, or social worker, is an example of a vocation.
  • Since the origination of Vocational Guidance in 1908, by the engineer Frank Parsons, the use of the term "vocation" has evolved to include the notion of using our talents and capabilities to good effect in choosing and enjoying a career.
  • In common parlance, a vocation refers to one's professional line of work or career, such as being a doctor.
  • Define the meaning of the word "vocation" and how it impacts the choices people make as far as occupations are concerned

• Tracking Systems

  • Thus, traditionally, students were tracked into academic, general, and vocational tracks.
  • Academic tracks prepare students for advanced study and professions such as medicine or law, whereas general and vocational tracks were meant to prepare students for middle or working class life.
  • Students in less academic tracks acquire vocational skills such as welding or cosmetology, or business skills, such as typing or bookkeeping.
  • Parents and peers may influence academic choices even more than guidance counselors by encouraging students with similar backgrounds (academic, vocational, ethnic, religious, or racial) to stay together.
  • Students in a vocational track may learn skills such as wood working.

• Formal Means of Control

  • Weber writes of the definitional relationship between the state and violence in the early twentieth century in his essay "Politics as Vocation. " Weber concludes that the state is that which has a monopoloy on violence.

• The Working Class

  • 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.

• Authority and Legitimate Violence

  • Max Weber, in Politics as a Vocation, conceived of the state as a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.

• The Importance of Paid and Unpaid Work

  • Internships for professional careers are similar to apprenticeships for trade and vocational jobs.

• Tracking and Within-School Effects

  • Vocational tracks may teach skills such as welding or encourage students to join the armed forces

• Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

  • In these religions, believers expressed their piety towards God through hard work and achievement in a secular vocation, or calling.

• Objective vs. Critical vs. Subjective

  • Weber took this position for several reasons, but the primary one outlined in his discussion of Science as Vocation is that he believed it is not right for a person in a position of authority (a professor) to force his/her students to accept his/her opinions in order for them to pass the class.