Career Choice and Development

40 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT occurred along the lines of functional tasks (related to people as op- posed to data or things) ...

Vocational Development, Career Choice, and Mobility in Social Context This section examines some of the most important social co ...

According to Kerckhoff (1996), the less vocationally specific the training and credential provided by the secondary education st ...

limited, look to employment in the West as a mark of success. This heightens the brain drain (the out-migration of highly educat ...

schools has been on “ability grouping” and “tracking” systems. In the case of ability grouping, which is used most often in the ...

become greater. Kerckhoff (1993) traced the divergence in students’ achievement over the life course in a British birth cohort, ...

that movement between tracks also reflects inequalities, primarily along gender and class lines. Track mobility, which occurs ma ...

Differences in Schools. In addition to the ways schools operate as internally differentiated institutions, sociologists have bee ...

These structural features of schools, like sector, size, and class and race composition, are thought to produce inequities in le ...

Two “ideal types” characterize variation in the structure of con- trol over labor market positions (Sorenson & Kalleberg, 19 ...

factor affecting job mobility across the career (Podolny & Baron, 1997). The way in which labor market structures differenti ...

ket is perpetuated to some degree by micro-level processes that produce gender differences in the aspirations and quali- ficatio ...

children’s and adolescents’ developing interests, values, and aspira- tions. Kohn and his colleagues’ research, the most promine ...

influences children’s work values and eventual occupational attain- ment (Mortimer, Lorence, & Kumka, 1986). Research in the ...

via parenting practices and parent-child relations). With continu- ing changes in family life (work-family connections more spec ...

Parents and teens alike have favorable assessments of adoles- cent employment, viewing it as an important site for vocational de ...

in self-efficacy over time (Finch, Shanahan, Mortimer, & Ryu, 1991). Furthermore, adolescents who report having an opportuni ...

& Finch, 1986; Marsh, 1991; Mihalic & Elliot, 1997; Mortimer et al., 1996; Warren, LePore, & Mare, 2000; Schoenhals, ...

Labor, 1998). Non-white adolescents are less likely to be employed at all during high school; when they are, they tend to be emp ...

tant at the time of labor force entry, as initial placements influence subsequent occupational career trajectories. The types of ...