In the article Blue Collar Brilliance author Mike Rose’s main point is that jobs that are stereotyped as low PDF

Preview

Summary

psycology week 2 essay...

Description

In the article Blue Collar Brilliance author Mike Rose’s main point is that jobs that are stereotyped as low-status actually require a different or a learned intelligence that society overlooks. The article begins with author Mike Rose speaking about his experience growing up in the restaurant his mother worked in. He describes the nuances of working as a waitress he observed such as the lingo his mother used for abbreviated orders, and seating area nicknames. Further into the article the author goes on to talk about how his mother would use her job as a waitress to learn and practice dealing with a variety of people and their sociological natures. Following up with a brief history of his family’s education and upbringing including his mother, her siblings, his father and Mr. Rose himself. Rose then states “Intelligence is closely associated with formal education “and how easily society subscribes to the “Belief that work requiring less schooling requires less education” He goes on to speak about his experience with one of his uncles who worked in a factory. Mr. Rose quotes his uncle Joe “ It was like schooling” in that the factory was a place where he was constantly learning. In the concluding articles Mr. Rose goes on to state how over the next eight years he began to study the thought processes involved with the aforementioned low-status type of work that his mother and uncle did. He catalogued the cognitive demands of the jobs to gain a sense of how knowledge and skill develops. What Mr. Rose writes was that “Work-related actions become routine with experience, they were learned at some point through observation, trial and error and often, physical or verbal assistance from a co-worker or trainer.” Mr Rose ends his article by stating, “If we believe everyday work to be mindless, then that will affect the work we create In the future. When we devalue the full range of everyday cognition, we offer limited educational opportunities and fail to make fresh and meaningful instructional connections amount disparate kinds of skill and knowledge.”...