Nauczyciele w strukturze społeczno-zawodowej
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1982Autor
Kawka, Zdzisława
Lewandowski, Edmund
Rokicka, Ewa
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The article provides a sociological characteristic of teachers
from the viewpoint of features placing this category in a
wider social structure. The analysis encompasses also the degree
of internal coherence of this category. It is but a fragment
of more extensive analyses concerning the place of teachers
in the society's macrostructure.
The study reveals that teachers represent a socio-professional
category, which is characterized with a specific structure
of social features typical for the inteligentsia and here mainly
in the area of the level of educational background and cultural
consumption and, to a smaller extent, in the area of performed
managerial functions (absence of expanded formal hierarchic structure
in the education system) and income levels.
They represent the most numerous professional category among
the intelligentsia (not counting technicians). According to the
estimates of the teachers themselves their social position is
closest to that of civil officers, and it is estimated to be
each lower than that of doctors, lawyers, and engineers. And oven
though the teachers do not constitute an internally fully
homogeneous category - the educational background proved to be a main dimension of differentiation - they display distinct features
of a socio-professional group. This is confirmed among
others by the observed strong tendency towards maintaining social
and marital contacts within their own professional category,
convergence of estimates as regards the socio-professional position
held by them as well os observance of their own specific attitude
to work or personality features.
Summing it up the authors believe that teachers may constitute
along with other professional categories a sociological unit
of studies on the social structure.
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