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AMERICAN WORK’S VALUE
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Job prestige Duncan Scale:
1 – 5 Physicians, Lawyer & Judges, Architect, Aeronautical Engineers, social Scientist 6 Natural scientists 8 Authors 10 Teachers 12 Actors 23 Motor Vehicle Manuf. Operators 25 Armed Forces 26 Manufacturing Laborers, Coal Miners Fabric-mill Machinery Operators
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WORK ETHIC Puritan ethic/ Protestan Ethic Work Hard Materialism Wealth Possession
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AMERICAN DREAM national ethos of the United States
The discovery of gold in California in brought in a hundred thousand men looking for their fortune overnight--and a few did find it. Thus was born the California Dream of instant success. Historian H. W. Brands noted that in the years after the Gold Rush, the California Dream spread across the nation:
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Novel by Horatio Alger: (19th century)
Hardwork rich Honesty Luck poor
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James Truslow Adams in Epic of America 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. United States Declaration of Independence which proclaims that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
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values “Climbing the Ladder” Workaholic (Achievement, efficiency, production) Work & Play Hard
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Some terms Vacation: 2-4 weeks Social Security Allowance Food Stamp
Kinds of Job: Blue-Collar, White-Collar Reward Concept: working, producing, achieving
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Job prestige Duncan Scale:
1 – 5 Physicians, Lawyer & Judges, Architect, Aeronautical Engineers, social Scientist 6 Natural scientists 8 Authors 10 Teachers 12 Actors 23 Motor Vehicle Manuf. Operators 25 Armed Forces 26 Manufacturing Laborers, Coal Miners Fabric-mill Machinery Operators
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AMERICAN DREAM
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