Career Choice and Development

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4 Gottfredson’s Theory of Circumscription, Compromise, and Self-Creation Linda S. Gottfredson Career choice is both an option an ...

86 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT group membership. My new theory pays particular attention to the powers an individual has, but ...

distinguish them from others and that help make them who they are. We convey this sense of individuals having their own unique c ...

88 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT The Core Theory Next I outline the core concepts and propositions of the theory as of 1996 (Got ...

FIGURE 4.1. Map of Occupations According to Prestige and Sextype Ratings Note: Occupations are denoted by a letter indicating th ...

Jobs in different fields of work tend to cluster in different parts of this shared cognitive map. This clustering can be seen mo ...

& Cairns, 1988, p. 198). Their maps are primitive early in life, but with increasing cognitive maturity they come to perceiv ...

An occupational aspiration is simply the one alternative within this space that the individual happens to voice at a particular ...

tives) from the full menu that a culture offers. Choosing one par- ticular occupation is but the end of a long process in which ...

which they may as yet be only dimly aware. Young people circum- scribe their options before they fully understand them. Principl ...

tions among individuals (for example, social class) while they are still incorporating the more concrete (sex roles) into their ...

psychological integration is also a step in creating a public self— that is, in integrating the self into society and vice versa ...

knowledge that adult activities are sextyped, in Stage 2 it clearly reflects an active rejection of cross-sex behavior. Youngste ...

As youngsters incorporate considerations of social class and abil- ity into their self-concepts, they reject occupational altern ...

of acceptable alternatives. For example, a young woman might pre- fer a sex-neutral job of moderate prestige, but she will find ...