Identify the differences between blue-collar, white-collar, pink-collar, and gold-collar occupations.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Blue collar: based primarily on manual labor (factory workers, agricultural laborers, truck drivers, and miners). White collar: require mainly analytic skills or formal education (doctors, lawyers, and business managers). Pink collar: jobs that primarily employ women in semiskilled, low-paid service positions (waitresses, salesclerks, and receptionists). Gold collar: young professionals who command huge salaries and high occupational positions very early in their professional careers.
KEY: Learning Objective: 7.2: Describe components of social class, including income, wealth, occupation, status, and political voice.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Occupation
Difficulty Level: Hard
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