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
Reactions to child labor conditions
Child saving moment
Social reformers, labor leaders, politicians take notice
Philanthropic endeavors emerged in order to save kids
Development of vocational guidance
What occupation emerged in reaction to child labor?
Social work emerges to prepare young people for occupation
Mary Harris “mother” JOnes
“Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.”
During the time of Frank parsons, what percentage of immigrants made up boston?
75%
Working conditions during frank parson’s work
Horrific
What happens to the 5000 orphans in parson’s city?
Worked as newsies, bootblacks, delivery boys, wood and coal pickers, peddlers, and idlers
Parsons’ model
- Clear understanding of oneself
- Knowledge of requirements and conditions for successes in different lines of work.
- True reasoning on the relation of these two groups of facts
Remember this about career counseling
It’s about helping ppl implement their self-concept in the world of work.
