청소년세대(靑少年世代)들의 직업(職業)에 대한 평가(評價) -직업(職業)의 국가사회(國家社會)의 공헌도(貢獻度), 존경도(尊敬度), 청렴도(淸廉度)를 중심(中心)으로- (1996)

1. Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to examine the Korean adolescents' attitude toward existing occupations and to reveal their vocational awareness and occupational consciousness. Based on the result, this researcher attempted to explore the meanings of their trends in educational standpoint.
More specifically, this researcher tried to achieve the following goals. They were:
1) to examine adolescents' tendency to the occupational consciousness.
2) to examine the degree of national and societal contribution, and public respect and popularity of each occupation.
3) to examine how the Korean adolescents think and evaluate social integrity level of each occupation.
2. Research method
This study randomly selected 750 adolescents (male 404 and female 346) and surveyed their opinions about national and societal contribution, public respect, and integrity level of each occupation. The survey included 44 kinds of occupations and asked them to score the occupations listed based on their own opinions (the lowest score was 0 and the highest score was 10).
3. Results
First, which occupation achieved the highest score in national and societal contribution among 44 types of occupations?
Among Korean adolescents, male gave diplomatic officers(7.25) and medical doctors(7.04) the highest scores. Following the above ranks, they included fireman and policeman; 119 rescue team(7.00), high-ranking officers(6.76), reporter and journalist(6.47), professor(6.70), sportsman(6.70), high-ranking policeman (6.70), and factory workers(6.67) as the first ten occupation groups that contribute to the society.
Comparing the occupations listed above, it needs to be paid attention to the fact that they gave comparatively lower scores to monk(5.05), gagman(5.01), poet(4.66), and merchant(4.26). Especially, it is meaningful response that pastor was ranked below thirtieth with the group of ministers of the country(ranked 18th and scored 6.30), members of Parliament(ranked 21st and scored 6.10), labour union leader (ranked 29th and scored 5.78) as the group that least contribute to the society.
In contrast, females evaluated fireman and policeman; 119 rescue team(8.05), garbageman(7.92), traffic policeman, medical doctor(7.76), teacher(7.51) as the first five occupation group that render great service to the society. Particularly, it needs to be aware that females also gave the lower scores to the ministers of the country(ranked 20th and scored 6.57), the members of Parliament(ranked 29th and scored 6.23), pastor (ranked 33rd and scored 6.02), Catholic priest(ranked 34th and scored 5.98), and monk(ranked 39th and scored 5.45).
Second, in terms of the social respect, males ranked judge, attorney, medical doctor, president of company, professor to the first five group that deserve social respect. Compare with that, they classified the members of Parliament(ranked 21st), a labour union leader(ranked 31st), gagman(ranked 38th), talent(ranked 39th) as the lower group in terms of social respect.
Females ranked judge, medical doctor, high-ranking policeman, attorney, professor to the highest group, but they evaluated high-ranking public officials(26th), members of Parliament(30) as the lowest group.
Third, in the category of occupational integrity, males selected professional sportsman, Catholic priest, reporter and journalist, producer, priest to the top five occupation group. Females included reporter and journalist, medical doctor, computer programer, teacher, and 119 rescue team to the first five trustworthy occupations. Both males and females, however, evaluated leader of labour union (ranked 42nd), merchant(43rd), members of Parliament(44th) as the lowest group of people in terms of social or occupational integrity.