When it comes to support, the image of some bored billionaire is drawn immediately in the imagination, who, out of an excess of philanthropy and money, provides free help to poor people of art. They usually have no money. But not only this meaning has the word "patronage." This is a more complex phenomenon that permeates a person’s entire life.
Value
But as always, before discussing a concept, you must first determine its meaning. The dictionary gives us three meanings.
1. Patronage is help and protection for people who have a lower status than their benefactors. Help does not always come from wealthy philanthropists, sometimes they are just people endowed with power, but power does not always imply money. Although in the popular mind, power and money are inextricably linked.
2. Patronage, as noted just above, is also a form of patronage.
3. When a person is lucky, one can meet such a turn: he, they say, is under the auspices of fate.
In fact, patronage is what accompanies a person all his life, and there is not a single man and not a single woman who does not have a mentor or mentor at different stages of their life.
School
When a person goes to school, then money does not play such a big role. But the protection of high school students is valued above all treasures in the world. If you imagine that there is a certain boy, weak and frail, then he will surely need a good friend among strong and athletic high school students.
University
In a higher educational institution, the situation is approximately the same as in a school, only at the next stage of education people have passed the selection and want to study and possess knowledge, skills that will be useful to them in real life. At school, we will be honest, not many people have a desire to study. Higher educational institution collects cream. And there the role of peer protection is already minimized, the patronage of the teaching staff is much more important. The respect of teachers in this case must be earned by diligent study. But even in this case, patronage is an obligatory part of the program only for those who are planning an academic career, and for the rest, such support is optional. You can call the time of study at a university relatively free from all kinds of benefactors, if a person does not set ambitious goals for himself.
Career
When a person harnesses to the so-called adult life, he immediately feels the need for connections, that is, contacts that could bring him certain bonuses and advantages.
Someone may ask: “This is all good, but what does the protection have to do with it?” We have already figured out the meaning of the word! ” Exactly. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal the essence of the phenomenon, and how to cope with such a task, if you do not look into the rapid flow of life, which nevertheless lends itself to certain standardization.
It would seem nice to have a good job, quality medical care and other benefits of civilization. But the thing is that every time a service is rendered to a person, large or small, one way or another they expect reciprocity from him. If, for example, a woman goes to a qualified doctor for an acquaintance, and then pays money with him, then there is no problem. Everyone gets what he wants. Such a service can hardly be called patronage.
But how to pay for a good job when a person gets it from the hands of higher ones? We come close to the question of the shadow side of patronage.
