Discussion 7.2: Occupation and Stratification Answer the following questions for
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Question
Discussion 7.2: Occupation and Stratification Answer the following questions for the initial post. Reply to two (2) other students and discuss the content of their post to earn full points.
1. SELECT a career from the ‘Prestige Rankings of Occupations’ . What is your chosen career and prestige score? 2. Do you find that this number is low (or high) based upon the other rankings? Why? 3. REVIEW the list again. What is an occupation that has a high prestige number yet might not pay that much? 4. We are prone to judging people by how they appear. Suppose that a person is lower-income. How might they dress and act to give the appearance that they are of a higher class?
Explanation / Answer
The chosen career would be doctor as per the pretige ranking of occupationit has a ranking of 56 on the basis of very high prestige category. However this occupation is lower than that of firefighters who have a 65% very high prestige ratings. However the firefighters are paid much lower than the doctors on an annual basis . There annual salary is somewhere around $23000 to $75000 (approx)a year. It is true people judge ones occupation and income status based on the way they dressed as people tend to link standard of living , lifestyle to the income earned. Most people tend to spend a part of their income on the way they dress up , therefore a lower income person would spend more on his consumption needs than on clothing.