Are professional athletes considered white or blue collared?

Ring around the collar?

I am collar blind.

collarless

Collared greens wrote:

My friend and I are debating, the main issue is over baseball players. I say they're blue collar because they are performing manual labor and are physically working. My friend says that blue collar workers don't get paid millions and date celebrities. However, I don't think it matters how much they make, it matters if they are doing physical work or sitting at a desk and wearing a tie. Opinions?

Why would they be white collar? It's about the body. Straight from wikipedia: "White-collar worker, a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales-coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor"

depends if they are playing at home or away I would say.

They are neither. The whole point of classifying people by 'white' and 'blue' collars is to make generalizations about social class. But pro runners are separate from both those with office jobs and those with manual-labor jobs.

So they're light blue collared. They work with their hands but are in a high social class.

depends on the team they play for. The Toronto BlueJays are blue collar as are the Dodgers. Most teams also have white jerseys so they may also be white collar. The Orioles are orange collar employees. It really just depends on what color their shirt is. You are kind of a dumbass.

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It is generally accepted that when performing their duties and conducting their affairs professionals will uphold exemplary standards of conduct,commonly taken to mean standards not generally expected of lay people or the "ordinary person in the street."

This arrogance from the medical profession, where some members have ripped off almost every major medical scheme in the world.

depends on their parents' social status...mostly i consider them nouveau riche and look down on them as such...

Moving up wrote:

I am a mature aged nursing student.

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Perhaps it's a false dichotomy. What if the sport doesn't involve manual labor, like chess, or video gaming, or gambling?

Loosely, blue collar workers get paid by the hour, and perform manual labor. White collar workers, named because they often wore white collar shirts, are more likely salaried workers.

Professional athletes don't seem to fit squarely in either category. For example, uniforms could be equally be blue or white, or any other color, not to mention patterns, logos, and an infinite number of other variations. Uniforms usually don't have collars at all, and sometimes, for example, swimming, don't even include shirts.

We can distinguish white collar workers, from blue collar workers, and from those in the service sector.

There is a "three sector" hypothesis which proposes looking at the economy as composed of the "primary sector" (raw materials), "secondary sector" (manufacturing), and "tertiary sector" (services). There also other suggested "quaternary sector" (information generation and sharing, knowledge based services) and "quinary sector" (health, culture and research).

Not everything seems to fit into a few neat little boxes.

Professional sports could be considered part of the entertainment industry, and then, by some definitions, would fall in the "quaternary sector".

Good luck in this debate.