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CHAPTER 3
OCCUPATIONS: INFORMATION AND THEORY
Is the labor market a market that is fair to all individuals?
What affect does a poor economy have on an individual’s career choice?
How has unemployment and underemployment affected the lives of students that you went to high school
with?
Have the class discuss people they knew in high school who were seduced by part-time work and did not
Discuss problems of youth unemployment in your country. What effect does it have on those individuals
who are unemployed?
How has the work experience of class members affected their intellectual performance or ability? Have
Discuss status attainment theory with the class by having students describe the effect of the prestige of
their fathers' and mothers' occupations on their own career choices. How did the prestige of their parents'
occupational choices indirectly affect the encouragement that they received from their parents for further
education? How has the prestige of parental occupation had an effect on each student’s choice of friends
or peer group? How did the peer groups that they had in high school affect their plans to go to college?
What suggestions for counseling low socio-economic youth can be derived from status attainment theory?
How is general trait and factor theory similar and dissimilar to human capital theory?
How good are you as an "investor" in your current career choice? Are your goals strictly monetary?
What might you invest in to realize your goals more quickly and with less risk? (Human capital theory)
Using research on the structure of the labor market, have the class identify jobs that they have held in the
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What are reasons for women and people from different cultural groups being overly represented in the
lowest segment of the labor market? Have the class give examples of discrimination toward women and
people from different cultural groups in the labor market, either from their own experience or from
observation.
Discuss Ogbu's (p. 85) notion that African-Americans, because they were brought to this country as
How can prejudice towards women and people from different cultural groups impact the effectiveness of
individual career counseling?
