Platform profession
The sociological term platform profession was coined by Hermann Mitgau . This term is used to categorize professions that are characterized by predominantly intellectual work and low material possessions, which have enabled some of the sons to move up to academic professions and positions since the 19th century .
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Mitgau is concerned with the fact that social advancement from one extreme of the social scale to the other usually took and needs at least two generations . A typical platform occupation was that of the schoolmaster (who was perhaps the son of a gardener himself ), but his sons then not infrequently pursued academic professions.
"Only when this young class of academics expanded significantly in the 19th century and was initially able to provide more than half of their offspring from their own ranks, did it solidify and become independent as a state. Significant transition platform professions of this development to academics are in the genealogical line-ups Teachers and Pastors "whose fathers were almost 50% craftsmen themselves. "The pastoral and teaching professions thus form the melting pot of a restructuring process. ... After the transformation, which takes a generation at the platform level, three quarters of the new social class has become civil servants and for the most part become academic."
In the rural social structure, platform occupations were part of the so-called trained , who, like the dispossessed intellectuals in the city, are to be regarded as early forms of the class of intelligentsia .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Gertrud Achinger: The Teacher's Study: Pedagogical College and University in the Judgment of Their Students , Edition 9 of Sociological Treatises, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot Publishing House, 1969, page 19
- ^ [Hermann Mitgau: Genealogy as a social science , Göttingen, Heinz Reise Verlag, 1977, page 149]