Early Adult Development - Vocational Stuff Flashcards
Factors that Contribute to Our Vocational Choice
- Personality
- Who you are influences what you will be become
- Example: If you’re shy person, becoming a professor might not be for you - Family
- They have Strongs expectations for you
- Push you towards certain things
- Contribute to identity foreclosure - Teachers
- They are the ones who recognized, saw something special in them and pushed them or just supported them, acknowledge them - point them in a direction - Gender Stereotypes
- Gender roles are powerful and when they become generalized rigid, they can become gender stereotypes and they can funnel people into career based on gender
- Example: A lot of women are in the department of human development psychology
Holland Career Types
Famous work based on personality. Talked about personality and came up with these different career types that kind of mesh onto personality characteristics and kind of the way you perceive the world
- Realistic
- Investigative
- Artistic
- Social
- Enterprising
- Conventional
Realistic
(things you can touch)
- Interested in real things, meaning things you can put your hands on such as tools, working with machines, but also with gardening, working with animals
- Careers: Mechanic, Farmer, Veterinarian, Gardener, Agriculture
Investigative
- It’s all about problem solving especially for math and science
- They are not often leaders, don’t often like being in sales, they’re not into persuading people
- Have a strong positive regard for science and math
- See themselves as precise, having scientific minds
- People se them as intellectual
- Career: Scientist, academic, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and general neuroscience
Artistic
- Creative
- Likes all types of art such as drama, dance, music, creative writing, crafts
- Emphasis on work but more of body kinetic kind of thing
- Have good artistic abilities
- See themselves as expressive, as original, independent
- Problems with the artistic folks: Generally don’t like ordered or receptive activities
- Careers: Creative writer, musician, dancer, artist, actor
Social
- Like people, tend to want to help them
- Generally, don’t like realists stuff like mechanical stuff
- Good at communication with others, giving information to people
- Value others that do good by people such as helping
- Like solving problems
- See themselves as helpful, trustworthy
- Some see them as friendly and outgoing
- Have good people skill
- Gravitate towards people, teaching, counseling, nursing
Enterprising
- Tend to create a enterprising environment
- They are leaders
- Good at selling ideas and selling things
- Good at politics and knowing when not to talk about it
- Gravitate toward business enterprises
- Generally rise to the tops bevies they are good, strong leaders of other people
- They are persuasive
- Usually are CEO’s, presidents of banks, directors, city manager, hotel managers, managers in general, real estate agents, real estate owners, sale’s
Conventional
- Like data, numbers
- Like to carry out tasks in details
- Like following instructions of other people
- They’re quite, careful, responsible, organized, very task oriented
- They like their environment to be controlled
- It’s one of the prevalent types
- They like working with records such as bank teller, bookkeeper, court clerk, mail carrier, post office clerk, administrative assistant
Percentages of Women in Various Professions
Data shows:
- In the male dominated professions in the 70s and to 23’, there has been a big jumped (there is a big change)
- Medicine is not a male dominated profession, it’s more balanced now
- Profession that is stereotypically female: there isn’t a big difference (no change)
Gender Segregation
- It’s completely separate career, different types of work
- Basically, the idea that men and women can do separating thing such as men like doing engineering and females like nursing
Gender Stratification
- When there is different domains
- It’s about who’s going where, speciality wise
Example: Medicine - people who become doctors, the percentage pf gender is mostly even
- But specifically when looking at a field like neurology, it is male dominated + making more money than other fields
Differential Earnings
Women earn 76.5 cents on the male dollar BUT women who have never had a children (aged 27-33_ earn 98 cents on the mail dollar
Math as a Critical Filter Theory
- Certain major require to obtain a certain amount of math and if they often out in high school it makes it harder to have that major
- Girls are more likely to opt-out of taking a math class
- We see more anxiety in girls in high school and college than we do in boys and men
