A professional occupation that has been around throughout recorded human history.
What are shaman, clergy, or religious mystics?
100
An occupation long accustomed to treating individuals' "personal problems" long before people really knew "personal problems" existed.
Who are the clergy?
100
A theory that emphasizes workers' choices to invest in skills, it has been used to explain inequalities between unemployed workers, racial groups, and women and men.
What is human capital theory?
100
It is an explanation for labor market inequalities that emphasizes employers' preferences, the number of available jobs, and worker characteristics.
What is queuing theory?
100
It is obtained through playing games and viewing oneself as superior to clients.
What is consent?
200
A type of knowledge that is difficult for average individuals to master, yet indispensable to a profession.
What is esoteric knowledge?
200
A state of being ensuring that a professional occupation will never remain stable or constant over time.
What is competition or conflict?
200
They increase the information available to you during job search and having many of them provides job seekers with labor market advantages.
What are weak ties?
200
This education-related phenomenon has allowed employers to increase the demand for highly educated workers, even for jobs that don't necessarily require skills gained in college.
What is credential inflation?
200
It encompasses several strategies that luxury hotel workers employ to view themselves as equal or superior to their high class clients. It also results in the normalization of inequality.
What is recasting hierarchy?
300
It is something that professions attempt to expand in order to increase their authority over clients and other professions.
What is a professional jurisdiction?
300
It is gained when a professional occupation convinces the public at large that its members are the most qualified to provide a particular service to the public.
What is cultural legitimacy?
300
Knowing the rules of golf or the proper opera etiquette are examples of this type of skill that typically is acquired through one's material wealth and access to powerful people.
What is cultural capital?
300
A term that refers to occupations that include college educated and non-college educated workers, such as retail salespersons. These occupations do not necessarily pay well, but they are becoming increasingly common.
What are mixed-education occupations?
300
It is what is produced and reproduced in luxury hotels and results in clients viewing luxury service as normal(ized).
What is entitlement?
400
They professionals connected to the profession and often influence policy and the state of professional knowledge.
What are professional associations?
400
For powerful professions, it is a skill that is an essential first step to providing effective service to clients.
What is diagnosis?
400
They are the space between social networks that would otherwise have no contact, unless you're lucky enough to be well-positioned.
What are structural holes?
400
If employers prefer workers with high education, then workers with this type of human capital are likely to fill job vacancies.
What is general human capital?
400
It is a powerful force that guides human interactions and, in the case of the luxury hotel industry, helps ensure pleasant interactions between workers and clients who differ greatly in material wealth.
What is the norm of reciprocity?
500
Just ask your therapist. It helps control the supply of professionals, though it is not legally enforceable.
What is statutory certification?
500
It refers to a profession's ability to apply a unique set of ideas or theories to a host of often divergent types of problems.
What is professional inference?
500
You would invest heavily in these types of on the job skills if you worked in an organization with a strong internal labor market.
What is firm-specific human capital?
500
They guide employers' hiring decisions and help determine workers' position in the labor queue. Sometimes they are "fair" but other times they are biased.
What are employers' preferences?
500
A term that refers to particularly unpleasant hotel guests, it underscores the finding that typical worker-client interactions are actually uneventful and mostly cordial.