Class 1 Flashcards
Functions of work
Income Expend time Identification Associations Source of meaning in life.
Work and Love
Keep us connected with others
Psychologically grounded
Active (Work)
Control and mastery Compete Achievement Concentration Active Productive Evaluative Satisfaction
Receptive (Love)
Warmth and concern Cooperate Affiliate Empathy Receptive Maintaining Acceptance Pleasure
Work and Future
Future
Goal directed
Objective time
Planned
Love and present
Present
Pleasure oriented
Subjective time
Spontaneous
Before career counseling
Professions were inherited (farmer to farmer)
What approaches were used before career counseling
Pseudo scientific approaches
(Astrology, palmistry and phrenology
Progressive era (late 19th early 20th century)
Rapid growth of industrialization and urbanization
Better living through science
Efficiency and perfection desired
Economic exploitation rampant
Economic landscape
1/8th of population controlled 7/8 wealth
Highest paid occupation during progressive era
Railroad engineer ($1500-2000 per year)
Factory workers and progressive era
Make less than $1000 per year
work Lives of children during progressive era
As young as 10 year old kids would work in mines and mills for 14 hours a day
Education and the progressive era
Children usually didn’t make it past a 6th grade education because they had to work
What jobs did kids have?
Bootblacks, newsies, mill workers, factory workers