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Vocational Model: Essential Orientation: Professions are primarily, fundamentall

ID: 3498974 • Letter: V

Question

Vocational Model:

Essential Orientation: Professions are primarily, fundamentally, distinctively a means for cultivating a specialized body of knowledge

Core characteristics: epistemic

Explanatory mechanism: implicit vocation and vows a. economic characteristics: result of relatively few being called to a particular profession through their interests, abilities, and opportunities to pursue a particular profession b. ethical characteristics: implied by the responsibilities that professional implicitly vow to uphold in response to their vocation

Historical origins: profession arises when a body of knowledge reaches a certain level of complexity and structure

Individual motivation: primarily interest in certain subject matter or solving certain types of problems

Professional ethics: realist approach a. there are distinctive ethical norms governing particular professions b. code principles are derived in part from the nature of the particular profession c. Professional responsibility is primarily a matter of following distinctive standards of care

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Explain how the vocational model implies the “technical” view of social responsibility for engineers?

Explanation / Answer

The vocational model has some social responsibility for engineers. However, the technical view of such social responsibility can be challenging based on the profession, for example over here, it is engineers. These social responsibilities emerge from a certain origin and ethic.